Kalachis Sleeping Sickness

Episode 8: Kalachi’s Sleeping Sickness In March 2013, a market seller in Kalachi, Kazakhstan collapsed mid-sentence, falling into an unbroken, four-day coma filled with vivid, horrifying hallucinations. Soon, an entire village was keeling over—children at their desks, drivers at the wheel, all struck down without warning. Was it invisible gas leaking from the abandoned Soviet uranium mine next door, or did decades of digging disturb something far stranger beneath the earth? Unravel the terrifying mystery of Kazakhstan’s "Sleepy Hollow". Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your dark folklore.