“My grandmother told me: there was a beggar who went from village to village asking for a place to sleep, but no one would let him in. One family had an empty house—they had moved to another one. People said that in the old house they kept hearing, as if at midnight, someone muttering: ‘I’ll come out…’ They suspected unclean spirits had settled there. So they let the beggar sleep in that house.
He spread out his clothes, set down his bag, and lay down to sleep. And then he hears: ‘I’ll come out… I’ll come out…’
‘Well then, come the hell out, motherfucker!’ he says.
In the morning he comes out and says: ‘Go on, it won’t be talking to you anymore. Thanks for the night’s lodging.’”
This story was documented in Tarnogsky District, Vologda Oblast.
The abandoned house in these photographs is living out its last days in the village of Gornoye Sholtozero, Karelia.
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