Kalachi
Kalachi
To be honest, there isn’t any feeling like sleep and admit it we all love sleeping. However, how would you feel about a place that would make you sleep anytime, anywhere? Not so safe, right? But to y’alls surprise, there is this locality called Kalachi, which had its fifth population affected by strange sleeping sickness.
| Name | Kalachi |
| Other names | Kalachevskiy |
| Origin | 2014 |
| Country / Location | Kalachi, Esil district, Akmola region, Republic of Kazakhstan (Central Asia) |
| Known for | Village suffering from sleepy hollow |
Facts about Kalachi (Village)
- Reports of January 2015 suggests that half of the population of the town has shifted away.
- Based in Kazakhstan, Kalachi is a rural area in the Esil District of Akmola Region with a total population of 810 people.
- According to a report in 2014, the sleep syndrome targeted 140 people in Kalachi and Krasnogorsk.
- The sickness was very random as people used to fall asleep suddenly, even while walking. The villagers would wake up with memory loss, grogginess, weakness, and headaches.
- Reports have stated that many of the residents of the are have fell victim to the sickness over half a dozen times, with them sleeping for up to six days at a time.
- The illness had affected both old and young. Even pets were not immune.
- Before the exact findings, a somnologist stated in an interview in 2014, that the two isolated villages were most probably under the effect of a case of mass psychosis. According to him, it was rather related to the “Bin Laden itch”, a psychosomatic wave that badly affected children in the US as worries of terrorist attacks peaked in 2002.
- Through later researches, it was concluded that increased carbon monoxide levels from a nearby abandoned mine were the reason for the fall of oxygen levels in the locality.
