Did you know there are numerous submerged and half-submerged metallic domes of unknown origin and purpose in the unpopulated wilderness of Siberia? No? You will soon.
This is an article from issue #203 of Fortean Times Magazine, published in January 2008 and written by the now deceased adventurer and world explorer Ivan Mackerle. The article is available for free online, so I take the liberty to re-publish it here in full.
Expedition to the Valley of Death
One of several supplemental sections in the magazine goes into the Siberian Mythology about the Domes:
Newer Photos
Since the publication of the article, better images have emerged, taken by locals. The photo at the top of this article is of an object called “The Patomsky Crater”, but locals say this is not a “crater” but one of the many Domes, now covered by soil.
Domes in Yakutia, from an article in New Yorker Magazine titled “The great Siberian Thaw”. These appear not to be linked to the mysterious domes we are talking about, but I have yet to read a better explanation for their existence:
A photo of one of many submerged Cauldron-shaped structure, Yakutia (Sakha Republic):
Locals have described the interior of these cauldrones and domes in detail and made drawings from the descriptions:
Browsing around Google maps in the vicinity of the mining town of Myrni (the area that Ivan Mackerle explored), reveals several circular lakes and even what appears to be domes that are still above ground:
The Secret War
A few years ago I wrote that the Tunguska explosion of 1919 could have been an aerial attack on the last remains of Tartaria. But what if these attacks, that apparently go back to ancient times, according to the old legends, are still ongoing today?
In 2020 the media began reporting about “exploding craters” in Siberia. They ascribed it to “climate change”. I doubt climate change has anything to do with it.
Quoting from a blog post on the subject:
“In the 1950s, the Soviet military cast an eye over this area, evidently due to the exceptionally sparse population on its northern fringes, and conducted a series of atomic tests there. One of the explosions produced a great puzzle, and foreign specialists are still speculating about it. As the German radio station Deutsche Welle reported in September 1991 that, when a 10-kilogram nuclear device was being tested in 1954, for unknown reasons the size of the explosion exceeded the calculations by a factor of 2,000 to 3,000, reaching 20–30 megatons, as was registered by seismic laboratories around the world. The cause of such a significant discrepancy in the power of the explosion remained unclear.
The news agency TASS put out an announcement that a compact hydrogen bomb had been tested in airburst conditions, but it later emerged that this was incorrect. After the tests, restricted zones were established in the area and secret work was carried out for some years”.
More reports from Locals
From the same article:
Back in 1853, R. Maak, a noted explorer of the region, wrote:“In Suntar [a Yakut settlement] I was told that in the upper reaches of the Viliuy there is a stream called Algy timirbit (which translates as “the large cauldron sank”) flowing into the Viliuy. Close to its bank in the forest there is a gigantic cauldron made of copper. Its size is unknown as only the rim is visible above the ground, but several trees grow within it…”
The same thing was recorded by N. D. Arkhipov, a researcher into the ancient cultures of Yakutia:
“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. This legend deserves attention as the areas that are the supposed location of the mythical cauldrons contain several streams with the name Olguidakh – ’Cauldron Stream’.”
And here is a passage from a letter penned in 1996 by another person who visited the Valley of Death. Mikhail Koretsky from Vladivostok wrote:
“I was there three times. The first time was in 1933, when I was ten – I travelled with my father when he went there to earn some money – then in 1937, without my father. And the last time was in 1947 as part of a group of youngsters.
“The ’Valley of Death’ extends along a right-hand tributary of the Viliuy River. In point of fact it is a whole chain of valleys along its flood lands. All three times I was there with a guide, a Yakut. We didn’t go there because life was good, but because there, in the back of beyond, you could pan for gold without the threat that at the end of the season you’d be robbed or get a bullet in the back of your head.
“As for mysterious objects, there are probably a lot of them there, as in three seasons I saw seven of those ’cauldrons’. They all struck me as totally perplexing: for one thing, there was their size – between six and nine meters in diameter.
“Secondly, they were made of some strange metal. Everyone has written that they were made of copper, but I’m sure it isn’t copper. The thing is that even a sharpened cold chisel will not mark the ’cauldrons’ (we tried more than once). The metal doesn’t break off and can’t be hammered. On copper, a hammer would definitely have left noticeable dents. But this ’copper’ is covered over with a layer of some unknown material resembling emery. Yet it’s not an oxidation layer and not scale – it can’t be chipped or scratched, either”.
(for more local information, see linked article)
If you’ve read along on this website this far, you by now know the following about Siberia or far-eastern Russia:
1. Siberia was once a fertile land called Tartary or Tartaria on old maps. The Tartarian Empire expanded across the world. It is now an ice-desert.
2. On old maps Siberia is called “Gog and Magog” which are mentioned in the Bible as having gone “against God” and therefore having been destroyed.
3. According to old maps and narratives, Tartary was at one time also ruled by Noah, the reported “sole survivor” of an ancient flood of destruction.
4. The natives of Siberia emigrated and became the “native Americans” of the Americas.
5. There is evidence of vast mudfloods, building-melting technology and ancient high-tech in Siberia.
These items put together reveal a radically different picture of our past, one we have yet to uncover. Places covered in ice (the arctic, antarctic and siberia) are promising starting points for exploration.
Forbidden Zones
The northernmost city in the world is Norilsk in arctic Siberia. As elsewhere in arctic regions, many people can’t go there without special permission (see my book “Mysteries of the Arctic and Antarctic”).
Quoting from Wikipedia:
…Norilsk is 300 km north of the Arctic Circle and 2,400 km from the North Pole. It has a permanent population of 176,735 as of 2024,[9] and up to 220,000 including temporary inhabitants.
It is the world’s northernmost city with more than 180,000 inhabitants, and the second-largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. Norilsk and Yakutsk are the only large cities in the continuous permafrost zone.
Access to Norilsk is restricted for foreign citizens, who are required to obtain special permission to visit.
…16,806 prisoners died in Norilsk as a result of forced labor, starvation and intense cold during the years the camp was operational (1935–1956).
North Pole, Siberia and the Mercator Map
A few years ago I suggested Siberia used to be part of the North Pole. I borrow the following two images from an article titled Strangers in the Ancient Arctic which goes into detail on this idea (see link).
One thing I noticed in ancient maps of Tartaria/Siberia is: It used to be much smaller. I speculated it’s because the landmasses cut off from the former landmass called “North Pole” to join Tartaria/Siberia. That’s only partially true. Another reason: Modern maps of Siberia are a distortion.
Do a search of “Mercator Projection” vs. the true size of countries and you will find images like this:
The “true size” of both Greenland, northern Canada and Siberia – all arctic regions in fact, are much smaller than we are led to believe. The fraudulent map we are shown is called “Mercator Projection” and geographers have all kinds of reasons why modern maps need to be distorted. But ancient maps weren’t distorted, so why do modern maps have to be?
The true size of Russia and Siberia is exactly as ancient maps said. Still big, but many times smaller than the Mercator map.
Even so, as the ancient maps show, the old north pole was in fact the northern parts of what is today Siberia, Greenland and Nunavut, Canada. Instead of fertile and populated, they are today iced over.
The biblical account about Gog and Magog being “the four corners of the earth” now makes sense. The North Pole used to be four landmasses, as you see on ancient maps. They split off and on later maps northeastern Tartaria/Siberia was left to be called “Gog and Magog”.
This then, lends credence to my theory that the events of the Book of Revelation, rather than being a prophecy of our future, were events that happened in our distant past. The result is that Gog and Magog are deserts of ice. This is only a theory and I may be wrong.
Let’s see what the Bible says about the “four corners of the Earth”:
Revelation 20:7-8: Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison. and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea”
Isiah11:12 “He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth”.
Ezekiel 7:2: “The end has come upon the four corners of the land”
Right now I can’t make any sense of these verses from the viewpoint of the four corners referring to the ancient North Pole. The verse in Isiah implies that the tribe of Israel are dispersed to the four corners and will be gathered from there. The tribe of Israel being God’s people in the Old Testament. The Book of Revelation speaks of Satan being gathered from there. In my eye, this could be a contradiction. Is the author of the book of Revelation on the same team as Isiah? Whatever the truth, something big happened in the arctic and our memories are still fuzzy on what it was.
Conclusion
There is much to discover under the ice!