No One Can Explain Whats Happening In This Village, And It Could Be Deadly.

There is a town in Kazakhstan that might very well be the sleepiest sleepy little town in the world. Since 2013, the people of Kalachi have been suffering from some kind of affliction that forces them to fall asleep at completely random times.

These spontaneous fits of sleep vary in length from just a couple of hours, to in some cases days. Even stranger, nobody has an explanation as to why, and the Kazakhstan government doesn’t seem interested in finding out.

Since August of 2014 alone, 60 people of Kalachi have been afflicted by this sleeping curse. That’s about 10 percent of the town’s population of 680.

The only scientific name for the disease is “encephalopathy,” which is just a general term used to describe something that isn’t entirely understood.

In addition to the fits of sleep, the disease has also caused hallucinations in some children. They report seeing things like flying horses, as well as people with eight eyes and elephant trunks.

Since the government has failed to figure out what’s happening, the townspeople have turned to theories ranging from government experimentation, to space aliens.

Some think it has something to do with an abandoned Soviet-era uranium mine nearby. But so far no official medical links have been found.

Others believe that many of the cases are a communal reaction to the stress of living in Kalachi. However, outsiders visiting family have also been known to contract the mystery illness.

Then there is the theory that everyone is suffering from narcolepsy. Typically though, this disease is only present in about 0.03 percent of the population. So what are the chances that all the narcoleptics of the world live in Kalachi?

So after a year and a half, nobody knows what is going on in Kalachi. For the townspeople they remain trapped in a nightmare that they might not wake from for a very long time.

H/T: Vice

I wouldn’t mind taking a day or two just to nap. My co-workers at ViralNova know this. But this is truly bizarre and scary. I think this might be the only instance where thinking about sleep, is going to make me lose sleep.

No One Can Explain Whats Happening In This Village, And It Could Be Deadly.