Mystical Moscow Metro - Legends

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There is a reason for Moscow to be considered one of the most mysterious and even mystical cities in the world. However, some of the places in the city provoke more troubling questions than others, and that concerns, first and foremost, the Moscow Metro. Its construction system was – and still remains – one the most complex in Russia; some argue that this is partly because of esoterists that allegedly were involved in engineering the initial metro stations. That is why certain legends associated with this rapid underground transit system seem particularly fascinating and, therefore, worth sharing.

 

Perovo Metro Station

This place, they say, definitely breeds superstitions, if for nothing else, then at least because there are animals drawn on its walls that are believed to be apocalyptic. Of course, skeptics cannot be that easily scared into accepting this for a fact, so they claim that those drawings in fact portray ancient Slavic gods. But seeing a horse with the head of a lion which breaths fire and has a snake tail still sends chills down the spine.

 

Sokol Metro Station (Zamoskvoretskaya Line)

This station is believed to be bad luck in its purest form. In the beginning of the 20thcentury there was a brotherly cemetery nearby: during the First World War deceased soldiers were buried there. Later, in 1918, priests and the counter revolutionary White movements’ officers were shot around this place by communist revolutionaries. Train operators confess, somewhat with shame, that they constantly feel as if they are being watched. In addition to that, they argue that sometimes in the early mornings, before the metro’s opening, they notice ghostly figures wandering alongside train platforms.

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Ploshchad Revolyutsii Metro Station

 

To those uninformed, nothing at this station really catches the eye as too suspicious in the mystical sense of the word. However, among 76 bronze sculptures installed there, four, as locals are convinced, have magical powers. That is why, passing by this “underground gallery of sculptures”, do not get surprised seeing people touching, for instance, the sculpture of a young woman or an army dog: the rumor has it, the former cures those suffering from unrequited love while the latter helps students to pass their exams.

 

Leninsky Prospekt Metro Station (Koltsevaya Line)

 

According to the legends, once in a month after midnight one can encounter here an absolutely empty train, which dutifully stops at every single station without ever opening its doors. A train operator is seating in his cabin, as he is supposed to, even though the uniform he has on was replaced by a differently looking one a long time ago, and his figure is covered in smoke, as well as the train itself. Sometimes through all that smoke become apparent exhausted faces of people who are thought to be the workers that died while building the metro.

 

Lubyanka Metro Station

 

According to statistics, this station is the leader as far as the number of metro passengers losing consciousness, having a stroke or a heart attack goes. On top of that, it has witnessed more people with suicidal tendencies than any other station in Moscow. Both occurrences are attempted to be explained through the theory that it is tortured souls of those who had fallen victim to the underground that are exerting such an influence over the living.

 

Kievskaya Metro Station (Koltsevaya Line)

 

There is an old mosaic painting on the wall of this station that locals like to show the tourists. What is so special about it? Seemingly, nothing but a Red Army soldier that is holding a walkie-talkie to his ear and has a book opened in front of him. But with a little imagination one can easily understand why the book could be taken for a laptop and the walkie - for a cell phone. The painting, then, becomes the proof of time-travel, which supposedly happens here every now and then.