Mysterious bird suicides in an Indian village (6 photos)

A truly detective story, even write a novel. In the small village of Jatinga in the mountains of India, every year during the monsoon months, a lot of birds die in the evenings, they simply fall from the sky to the ground dead. Kingfishers, black bitterns, tiger bitterns and pond herons - the species doesn't matter.





Dead bird found on the ground

This phenomenon has become known throughout the country, and tourists come to local holidays to experience the strange mystical event.

So, your versions of why birds fall from the sky en masse here every year? As in ChGK - your options.

The mysterious Khasi-pnar tribe

About 2.5 thousand people live in the village in the mountains, all of them are representatives of the Khasi-Pnar tribe, who have been living their closed way of life for many years.



From the train it’s still a few tens of kilometers to the village

And everyone in this settlement knows about the regular “Mystery of the Birds”, which takes place from September to November in the village. Flocks of birds fall to the ground and crash into the walls of houses.

First, scientists came here, then lovers of all kinds of mysterious mysticism, and then onlookers - to look at the terrible event. Local residents say that it is the evil spirits living in the sky that send the birds to the ground.

What did the arriving scientists say about this?



About 44 species of birds die in the village, which only confused scientists

That every time the birds find themselves disoriented in the monsoon fog that covers the mountains in some months. Since the buildings in the village are located on a mountain ridge, some higher and some lower, a bird can easily collide in the fog with a building that suddenly appears on the way.

And break his neck by flying into him at full speed. Logical explanation, case solved. Are we breaking up?



In mystical programs they love to show such footage from this village

No, but Detective Columbo would not back down so easily.

True bird killers

Why does this phenomenon occur there frequently and en masse? Because residents do this on SPECIAL. At night, at dusk, they light lamps throughout the village, which serve as beacons for birds in the fog.

They fly into the light in flocks and hit trees and walls en masse. If it weren't for mass baiting, there would have been much fewer deaths. And sometimes such birds are shot down in the fog when they are descending, using bamboo sticks and catapults. The awareness of the cruelty and cynicism of this chills the skin.



See how bright the lights are and the windows, of course they fly into the light

But why do residents do this!? Because they need tourists, they need visitors to the Jatinga Festival, and buyers of small bird figurines.

Initially, the phenomenon really attracted scientists, but it was not so widespread and regular. And when the solution appears, local residents are in no hurry to tell guests the correct answers.

But ordinary tourists in India have a very mystical mindset and are not very educated, they like to believe in the habitat of evil bird spirits.



And here is a propaganda board for the protection of birds in this village

This insidious and rather creepy story does not take place at all in movies and books, but in a real small Indian village. That's what scares me the most.