A closer look at the 'Cauldrons' in the Valley of Death Siberia

This weeks Ancient Aliens episode on evil places was highly interesting, particularly the feature on 'cauldrons' in the Valley of Death Yakutian Siberia. The cauldrons have a long history with reports on them going back hundreds of years.

Russian ufologists have proposed that these ‘cauldrons’ are the remains of UFOs, wrecked in an accident or an ancient aerial battle. Russian researcher Dr Valerey Uvarov argues that they are connected to a power plant located deep inside the Earth, a weapon to protect our planet from dangers in outer space.

Extraterrestrials built them in ancient times, he says, and now they operate automatically, having shot down the Tunguska meteorite in 1908, the Chulym meteorite in 1984, and the Vitim meteorite in 2002 and possibly in 2011 the Irkutsk meteorite. More from his Nexus Article.

The location of cauldrons seems to co-incide with large meteorites crashes nearby - if you look at the Google map below, numerous large meteorites that hit Earth have occurred in the vicinity.

Both expeditons in the past and recent (see ancient aliens expedition below) have resulted in some form of strange radiation illness to people visiting the area. Many assume that this is due to the surrounding state being a nuclear test site during the soviet era. Although 12 tests were performed in Sakha Republic this does not explain the pre-nuclear reports of sickness to those visiting the Valley of death dating back in the 1930's and 1800's.

Picture from recent expeditions to the area:

Brief History of the region:

1853. Russian Siberian explorer R.K. Maak writes in his book Viliuysky okrug (The Viliuy Region) that the side of a giant, submerged metal cauldron protrudes from the ground near the Vilyuy tributary, but only the rim is visible and there are trees growing out of it.

1908. A yet-to-be-explained fiery ball known as the Tunguzs Meteorite exploded over Siberia .'The so-called Chulym Bolid followed in 1984, copying the path of the Tunguzs Meteorite with surprising precision.

1930 An aged merchant and his granddaughter stay in a Kheldyu ("iron house" in the local language) a slightly flattened reddish arch where, beyond a spiral passageway, there turned out to be a number of metal chambers in which they then spent the night.

1936 alongside the Olguidakh ("place with a cauldron") River, a geologist directed by elderly natives came upon a smooth metal hemisphere, reddish in colour, protruding from the ground with such a sharp edge that it "cut a fingernail". Its walls were about two centimetres thick and it stuck out of the ground roughly a fifth of its diameter. It stood leaning over so that it was possible to ride under it on a reindeer . His drawn images at the bottom of this post.

1989..D.Arkhipov, a researcher into ancient cultures of Yakutia writes in his book Drevnaya Yakutia (Ancient Yakutia) that among the population of the Viliuy basin there is a legend from ancient times about the existence in the upper reaches of that river of bronze cauldrons or olguis.

1996. A small Russian magazine publishes an article by ufologist A. Gutenev about the mystery of the cauldrons and the Valley of Death , which he attributed to extraterrestrials.

2004. Dr. Valerij Uvarov published a longer, more in-depth English version of the article on the internet, making the mystery known to the rest of the world.

2010 Report from recent expedition to the area - featured on ancient aliens

The Cauldrons in the Valley of Death Siberia on Ancient Aliens 2011 if you missed it:

Location of Olguydakh - 'river with cauldrens nearby'

Apparently it's located circa 40 - 50 km north / northeast from Vilyuyskoye (the lake system from which the Vilyuy River progresses). Latitude (DMS): 63° 27' 8 N

Longitude (DMS): 112° 6' 35 E

Large Meteors and Olguydakh - coincidence? :

I spent some time trying to find the above co-ordinates and satellite images of the area where the cauldrons are to see if we could actually zoom in on them . Unfortunately google maps can't show closer satellite images of the region. But i did find the approximate area of Olguydakh where they are meant to be and the nearby Vilyuy River and oddly enough the area of the 1908 Tunguska meteor event was in close proximity as well as a few other major meteor crashes.

Geologist drawings 1936
1936 a geologist directed by elderly natives came upon a smooth metal hemisphere, reddish in colour, protruding from the ground with such a sharp edge that it "cut a fingernail". Its walls were about two centimetres thick and it stuck out of the ground roughly a fifth of its diameter. It stood leaning over so that it was possible to ride under it on a reindeer

In days gone by, there were bold men among the local hunters who would sleep in these rooms. But then they began to fall seriously ill, and those who had spent several nights in a row there soon died. The Yakut said that the place was "very bad, marshy, and beasts do not go there".