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Engilchek: Disturbing Encounter In Abandoned Soviet Mine

Published on Wed, Dec 25th 2019 Travel & Events Rectangular HD

The mining camp you see at the start of this video is a more recent operation than the ravaged town of Engilchek seen in the first video. A Chinese company had a go at mining here after the dissolution of the Soviet Union… However, as you can see, they were unable to make a success of mining at Engilchek and abandoned their efforts as well. That is not entirely surprising as it is difficult to get here and this is an environment of extremes. As just one example of this: the cheap, plastic windows of that Chinese crane that were rendered opaque after being cooked by the ultraviolet rays from the sun at this high elevation.

I can anticipate the comments in reaction to whatever I encountered underground (which is why I was reluctant to post this video in the first place), so let me be clear:

I am not suggesting that I encountered a ghost or anything supernatural as I am quite skeptical about such things. What I am saying is that whatever I encountered creeped me out a little and I still can’t figure out what it was... I’d love to hear an explanation for that howl. My interest in this is to solve a puzzle. So, I’ll let the experts figure out what it likely was. I just happened to be the guy that brought back the video.

If I wanted to produce a fake ghost video with the intent to go viral, I would have done the following: I would have released this around Halloween to capitalize on the general interest in all things spooky at that time, I would have dubbed in much louder and more clearly creepy audio, I would have reacted more in the video to ramp up the melodrama, I would have included some sort of visual effect in the video as well, I would use a more clickbait-oriented title and thumbnail referencing “creepy, unexplained, mysterious sounds” and other such attractants, I would not offer the raw file to anyone interested in scrutinizing it since that would expose any shenanigans… Do you see what I’m saying?

I’m not very technologically sophisticated, but I know it is possible to separate out and to enhance background audio. If anyone knows how to do that, I’d love to hear an enhanced version of that howl. The EVP people do that all of the time…

Creepy encounters aside, I am sorry that the adit in this video was caved because it evidently was quite large considering the size of the rail, the size of the waste rock pile outside, the size of the portal, etc. So, presumably, the adit ran back into some substantial workings. These can be quite interesting and impressive. Also, we’re more likely to discover tools and other such artifacts closer to where they were actually working the ore deposits.

I didn’t see any signs that the Chinese had been mining underground at this or any of the other adits. So, perhaps they were trying to work the waste rock and tailings outside? The presence of the crane would support this as it certainly would not have been used underground. Of course, the crane could also have been used for constructing the mining camp. So, perhaps the Chinese never actually got around to mining and abandoned the project after building (or mostly building) the camp?

The next adit I explored at Engilchek (the third and final video in this series) is without controversy and is, I believe, the most interesting in terms of artifacts and underground workings. It was also very different than the adit in this video. It’s strange to me how very different the adits were despite being in such close proximity.

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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.

These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever.

I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

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