Ntaveli’s Cave [Haunted Place]
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Daveli’s Cave (otherwise known as Ntaveli’s Cave) is located about 15km from Mountain Penteli, Greece, an ancient marble quarry, the place where most of the marble for the construction of the Parthenon Temple.
The name of the cave is originated from a notorious highwayman bandit in the 19th century (real name "Christos Natsios") used the cave as his gang’s hideout.
It is a site that transudes a powerful aura and that has been the focus of paranormal phenomena at present.
In Dvaeli's cave, there are two ancient buildings with great historical and archaeological curiosities. Originally, it was a place dedicated to God PAN (the god of words, fields, and flocks, having a human torso and head with a goat’s legs, horns, and ears) before two Byzantium-styled chapels appeared in the cave entrance. Also, various types of strange symbols adorn the walls, and periodically victims of animal sacrifice are found at the entrance to the cave or surrounding tunnels.
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According to neighboring villagers’ experiences, a “will-o’-the-wisp” (atmospheric ghost lights) and a “shadow man (also known as a shadow figure, shadow being or black mass)” are often seen by travellers and villagers at night. During the 19th century, resin collectors heard sounds of celebration like music and voices raised in laughter and song, sometimes when they met at the cave in the evenings. Besides the appearances of such mysterious creatures, it is in this area that a high number of unexplained disappearances of travellers, locals, amateur spelunkers and some reckless challengers have taken place.
Many scientists claim that there is a powerful magnetic field exists in the vicinity of the cave, which causes an optical illusion and make electronic devices (just like cameras, video cams and cell-phones) turn off or big-footing.
In the 1960s and 1970s, paranormal investigators at the cave began to report a variety of new phenomena. A lot of what they experienced here involved strange electrical faults-lights surging, even without battery power; cameras refusing to work in certain areas of the cave, and photographs where faces were covered by a green haze, or, more bizarrely, where the camera and hands appeared in the photo, almost as if the eyes of the photographer had taken the picture. Tourists reported photographs where they saw themselves twice, their actual bodies and a representation of themselves apparently "carved" into the rock formations behind them.
Those rumors intensified, when in 1977 the army task force, organized of the Greek Navy and NATO military researchers, started to construct a secret base at the cave. Deatils of the construction, however, largely remained unknown to the outside world.
All military operations at the site were abandoned. Machinery remained uncollected. New tunnels led merely to dead ends, old tunnels filled in. What is known is that many of the workers at the site have since died of cancer, and that, coincidentally, a lot of boxes of abandoned anti-cancer drugs were found in the cave after the troops moved out. But the paranormal phenomena continued, and the investigators moved back in.
After the suspicious military project, some parts were covered by concrete. And a child's footprints were found, imprinted into a concrete floor-while it was still wet-that had been laid by military personal in one of the new tunnels.
The footprints showed that a barefoot child walked up to a dead end where the rock had not been blasted, but did not walk back again. As if the child had either vanished into thin air or walked through the wall. More interestingly, the shape of the child’s footprint, as opposed to normal humans' barefoot, has a sharp/four-toed figure.
A freaky doll was seen hanging against the mountainside, at such an inaccessible spot that a member of the army's Special Forces was the only person able to reach it, though not without considerable effort. Overnight, a replica doll was seen in the exact same place. Who?, or what?, had gone to such extremes lengths to place the unearthly doll in such a spot was never established. Rumors of dark, shadowy forms also began filtering through.
Today the cave is accessible; some parts are covered by concrete though. There are still the two Byzantine chapels, and a single huge cavern with a length of 80m which may be visited. The floor is level and there is no difficulty at all. The walls of the quarry around the cave are used by climbers.
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