Barsa-Kelmes Island located in the Aral Sea of ​​Central Asia hides unexplainable mysteries behind a magical mist. The Soviet army sent planes and tanks to investigate, but all suffered tragic and mysterious outcomes that still remain in the dark to this day.

Barsa-Kelmes Island is located in Central Asia, with an area of ​​133 km2. In the native Kazakh language, Barsa-Kelmes means “no return” island.
Legend has it that, in the 13th century, people on the island of Barsa-Kelmes were forced to flee the island to avoid the massacre of the Mongols. After a short time, they returned to the island and were surprised by the scene that appeared as if decades had passed. In the end, the islanders only stayed on the strange island for a few months and then moved to another place to settle, making this place a little-known deserted island.
Now, in Barsa-Kelmes, people only see a strange land covered by a thick fog, where strange, inexplicable things are said to happen. Strange things appear so often that residents living near the island have called it “the door to another dimension”.

Map of the island of Barsa-Kelmes in 1853. Source: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London.
Strange phenomena that cannot be explained
First, Barsa-Kelmes is said to be home to strange creatures that seem to come from another dimension. Local people say that they have seen creatures resembling giant birds flying, or seen large sea snakes swimming in the waters around the island, and sometimes seen giant “sea monsters” with necks. long loomed in the thick fog.

People living nearby said they saw giant creatures flying in the mist (Illustration)
In addition, everyone who had ventured into exploring the island also mysteriously disappeared. They never returned after entering that “forbidden land”. Not only is Barsa-Kelmes island believed to be the home of unusually giant creatures that not only “swallow” people behind a thick fog, it also renders all modern human devices disabled. chemistry. When approaching the island, the watch suddenly stopped working, the compass was disabled, the compass needle rotated and could not be oriented. Even more surprising, people also feel that time sometimes passes very slowly, sometimes it passes very quickly.

Expedition tent on Barsa-Kelmes island, 1848
One of the strange incidents that led to the intervention of the Soviet government was the event that occurred in 1959.
After many years of experiencing warmer seasons than the islands and surrounding areas, in 1959 the island of Barsa-Kelmes suffered a particularly harsh winter. Some Kazakh natives living near the island thought that Barsa-Kelmes could be an ideal storage place for the seafood they had caught before, so they entered the area despite the village chief’s objections. .
However, the harsh winter passed and the warm spring came and they still had not returned home. Relatives organized a large-scale search, however, many days passed without seeing any signs of the missing people, so they reported it to the authorities. The Soviet government then dispatched a helicopter to scan the area, looking for missing people on Barsa-Kelmes Island. However, when flying into dense fog, the cockpit equipment was disturbed and gradually failed one by one. The two pilots were forced to make an emergency landing. The last words that appeared on their radio in an emergency report on the situation at that time were, they saw elliptical objects appearing vaguely in the thick fog. Immediately afterwards, the radio signal between the command base and the helicopter was completely silent.

The last thing the pilot in front of the rescue helicopter saw were elliptical objects appearing vaguely in the dense fog (Illustration)
After the helicopter “disappeared” completely in the dense fog of the strange island, the Soviet Union continued to mobilize a tank with a long cable attached, entering the strange island area. The reconnaissance team on the tank was ordered to maintain constant contact while entering the dense fog. However, something strange and terrifying happened again. The radio signal went silent again shortly after the tank entered the fog. It wasn’t until people pulled the tank back with cables that the fear was pushed to the extreme when the entire tank seemed to be covered by a layer of ice and the inside of the vehicle was completely empty. Suspected samples were quickly taken to a modern laboratory in Moscow for examination, however, scientists did not find anything unusual, such as foreign substances, strange objects or important clues. Which serves the investigation. When the field work came to a standstill, people began to speculate that it was possible that the elliptical objects were related to UFOs and that the island had been used by aliens as a base.

That layer of fog could be a shield protecting a secret base inside the island (Illustration)
Russian UFO researcher Vadim Chernobrov, after studying old documents related to unexplained phenomena at Barsa-Kelmes, said that the fog was a shield protecting a secret base. somewhere inside the island. It disables electronic devices, to protect against unwanted intrusion from the outside.
What is the fate of those who went to that island and never returned? What great secret is hidden inside the dense fog? Is the island of Barsa-Kelmes an underground base of aliens, or is it a creation created by humans to hide some huge secret?… All of these questions still remain. behind the mist of the mysterious island of Barsa-Kelmes.