The former inhabitant of a house in Belozersk was considered among the locals to be a psychic or a sorceress. She willed her house not to be sold to anyone.
The new owner decided to install plumbing in the house, make repairs, and redesign the layout. The locals had a premonition that this would not end well.
And so it was. A group of hired laborers began drilling a well and unexpectedly reached an underground lake. The water began to gush so hard that it was no longer possible to correct the mistake. The group of repairmen and plumbers were powerless. The house began to flood. Everyone remembered the old witch's accusation. Most of the local people are sure that it was her doing.
To this day, the house is slowly falling under the ground.
They say that at night, strange sounds come from underground, like someone moaning and clawing at the wooden floors. Those who dare to come closer can hear gurgling and hoarse laughter coming from the depths of the well.
One day a local carpenter, who had had too much to drink, decided to prove that there was no curse. He took a lantern and went to a house that was already half submerged. The man crouched at the edge of the hole and peered inside... But he had barely had time to see the dark waters before a deafening splash came from the depths, and something black with long claws emerged from the darkness. The carpenter screamed, collapsed on his back, and ran away.
The next morning they found him in the village inn, pale, with gray hair. He kept saying the same thing: "There are devils, black devils with horns! They're dragging the house to the underworld!"
Since then, no one has dared to approach the house. Only at night, if you stand at the edge of the swampy lowland, you can hear someone laughing quietly in the depths of the underground lake, clawing at the wooden beams that were once the walls of the cursed house.