Hoia-Baciu forest a Romanian Bermuda Triangle?
I will continue my introducing to you places surrounded by mystery, legends and controversy in Romania.
Hoia-Baciu forest is to be found on the same list with other
strange places of the world like: Mojave Desert, La Spezia-Arenzano in Italy,
Hessdalen Valley in Norway or Kailasa Mountain in Tibet. Prestigious publications such as Travel & Leisure magazine or BBC
have included the forest here among the most interesting forest haunted areas on
the planet. Close to Cluj town, just a three kilometers
trip, you will enter the Hoia-Baciu forest. A mysterious and wonderful place, where you can’t say
the difference between reality and paranormal. In fact, nobody really knows if this is a haunted location, or a UFO location. The forest was named
after a shepherd that disappeared in the area with two hundred sheep.By the way, do you know what does the name mean? Of course you can't know. Hoia is in fact a regional pronouncing of the name Horia. Baciu means in dialect of the area shepherd. So the name Hoia-Baciu means Shepherd Horia. The one who disappeared with his sheep in the forest.
What witnesses say
What
strikes tourists at first is the odd shape of the trees. You’ll find nowhere
else in the world so many crooked, unnaturally bent trees. There are places
where six to eight trees come out from the same root. Their crowns, instead of
raising to the sky, are bent as if in silent prayer, to the ground.
People have always been fascinated by this place. In old
times, peasants said they knew about the strange powers of the forest and would
avoid going there. They believed that those who visited the site would never return. They even avoided
mentioning the forest as they thought it was cursed,a dwelling place of the Devil himself. It is believed that the souls of the peasants murdered here, their ghosts, are trapped within the woods.
Even nowadays, those who ventured into the forest returned deeply shaken and complained of physical harm, including rashes, nausea, vomiting, migraines, burns, scratches, anxiety, and other unusual bodily sensations, as well as a feeling of being watched. Scientists would describe these as the symptoms of radiation poisoning. But, centuries back, in the fourteen hundreds, people were reporting those same symptoms, so “secret government bases"are ruled out. There were others who entered the forest and suddenly remembered all of their past experiences, but then forgot the memories after leaving the area.
Even nowadays, those who ventured into the forest returned deeply shaken and complained of physical harm, including rashes, nausea, vomiting, migraines, burns, scratches, anxiety, and other unusual bodily sensations, as well as a feeling of being watched. Scientists would describe these as the symptoms of radiation poisoning. But, centuries back, in the fourteen hundreds, people were reporting those same symptoms, so “secret government bases"are ruled out. There were others who entered the forest and suddenly remembered all of their past experiences, but then forgot the memories after leaving the area.
First to unravel the mystery
The biologist Alexandru Sift started researching the forest
in the fifties and lifted a tiny corner of the mystery veil. Sift performed many scientific trips
into the forest and, soon, he became aware of “shadows”
watching him from behind the crooked trees. His investigations were
continued in the seventies by several research teams or even by solitary
researchers.
In 1968 international press agencies sent home a famous photograph of a
saucer-like object over the Hoia-Baciu Forest. The photo was captured by a military technician named Emil
Barnea. International
experts, over the years, have classified it as “the clearest images of a UFO
photographed in Romania and undoubtedly one of the best images of any UFO
photographed ever in the world. ” It seems this is the moment the international
career of the forest began. The
area was a hotbed for UFO sighting and unexplained lights. There are many rumors and reports about contact with entities outside our known world, occurring here every year.
Science logic annihilated
Science logic annihilated
Research institutes from Europe and USA received reports on
Hoia-Baciu forest that has become a living legend today. For half a century,
odd events that blow to pieces the limit and logic of science have been
noticed here;the geometric shapes, flying nocturnal or diurnal light
colored humanoid appearances, strange nebula forms, materialization and
dematerialization, twisting trees in intervals of tens of seconds, mobile
radioactive fields and many other things that defy understanding won the forest
the name of Romanian Bermuda Triangle. Other specific occurrences include passive wild animals. Even the locals will tell you that wolves living here are very friendly. Due to the amazing
variety of the apparitions happening in the forest it is considered the world
„capital”of paranormal. Visitors in the
forest have witnessed strange events, the most common phenomenon includes
seeing mysterious orb-like lights, female voices, giggling, apparitions, and
cases of people being scratched. Specialists from around the world are
fascinated by the forest. They have managed to capture bizarre material
structures on film, including ghastly faces and ghostly apparitions.
Conclusion
Paranormal phenomena happening in Hoia-Baciu - the mobile radioactive fields and many other things that defy understanding, the complexity, novelty and frequency with which they occur, make this area a unique space, the most active and most researched by specialists worldwide. Famous parapsychologists in the world consider Hoia-Baciu forest as the most „active” point on the earth. Due to the force and amazing variety of the apparitions happening in the forest it is considered the world „capital”of paranormal.
The atmosphere in Hoia-Baciu is similar to the one in my paranormal romance Shadows of the Past. The cursed forest where Anne and Neil get lost and make a gruesome discovery. You may find the book here:
Wildchildpublishing
Amazon
