People in Kazakhstan are falling asleep for days and nobody knows why. MYSTERIOUS!

Dozens of residents regularly hit by 'sleeping epidemic' for days at a time.

The village was now known as the Sleepy Hallow

In Kalachi, in northern Kazakhstan, a mysterious sleeping epidemic make residents of the village doze off for days at a time. The village was now known as the Sleepy Hallow.

According to a report, this is the ninth wave of this sleeping illness to torture these villagers since March, 2013, with over 150 cases to date.

The residents in the village would suddenly fall in a deep sleep regardless of the time of day.

Without any warning, men, women, kids, and even their pets would drop down and would remain coma for at least six days or even weeks at a time.

Locals say that the mysterious illness has no cure. The strange sleeping illness is getting worse, with nearly 14 percent of the towns 600 residents having been affected.

The victims of this sleeping disease will sleep for days and sometimes even weeks

They fear that as the disease continues to spread, that it could reach a point that one would go to sleep and never wake up.

After waking up it leaves people feeling dizzy, unable to stand, fatigued and with memory problems. And there are some who is suffering from vivid hallucinations.

According to the doctors, the sleeping illness was cause by excessive fluid in the brain known as oedema.

“When the patient wakes up, he will remember nothing. The story is one and the same each time — weakness, slow reactions, then fast asleep. The sleep is so deep that some locals fear an old man they assumed was dead could have been buried alive,” said Dr. Kabdrashit Almagambetov

But they have been unable to identify the cause of the condition that has affected the residents for nearly four years.

They say it could be viruses and bacterial infections like meningitis as the main cause of the sleeping illness.

Some experts have conducted thousands of test on patients and as well as in the soil and water to find the cause of the disorder. But they have been unable to find any chemicals in the soil and water.

According to Sergey Kulagin, a local official, the village which was the former home to over 600 residents id currently evacuating over the next two weeks. There are some residents who have decided to permanently relocate.

Many of the town’s residents have left the village and
officials say that it will be closed off in May

“Of the 218 families, 124 expressed a desire to relocate. Thirty-four families (95 people), including 27 children, have already left the village,” said Sergey.

According to Prof. Leonid Rikhvanov, from the Department of Geo-ecology and Geo-chemistry at the Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia, he has been studying the village for four years already.

Prof. Leonid believed that an old and abandoned Soviet uranium mine in the are could be the cause. It is possible that radon gas is being emitted.

“In my opinion, a gas factor is at work here. Radon could be operating as a narcotic substance or an anesthetic. Currently, the underground space of the mine is flooded and gases are being squeezed to the surface,” said Prof. Leonid

“This gas, which causes toxic effects, pushes a person into a dreamlike state, and the person falls asleep," he added.

The Kazakhstan government have been spending a lot of money for this mysterious illness. They are also relocating the residents to other apartment.

There are lots of speculations about this sleeping disorder, but until the cause of the illness was still unknown.

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