The Mystery of the Flying Snake The Vips Highlands are located in the European part of Russia, between St. Petersburg and Murmansk. There are swamps within a radius of several thousand kilometers, and the population density is the sparsest in the country.

According to official statistics, about 10 naked human corpses have been found every year in recent years, but there are no signs of violent deaths.

The police were helpless and there were rumors among the people that a devil was causing trouble.

The media is paying full attention, but so far no results have been found.

In the fall of 1993, the body of a sawmill janitor was discovered. He was naked, with his clothes piled aside and his shirt buttons down.

Two people died in succession within one month in the late 1990s. After autopsy, neither of them died violently, and there was only a very small amount of alcohol in their bodies.

In the fall of 2001, a man died and his clothes were piled in a basket.

At the end of October 2001, a body was found, sitting barefoot on a tree stump, with leather boots and socks neatly placed aside.

In September this year, another body was found, wearing only underwear, pants and a woolen sweater lying around.

Forensic examination showed no signs of violent death.

These spate of inexplicable deaths have troubled the local police. They cannot explain some phenomena at all, and they have no previous information for reference.

The 16 naked or partially naked bodies found in the area since 1993 showed no signs of violence.

The bodies were found in a narrow place with a radius of 50 kilometers, namely "Bear's Corner", 300 kilometers away from St. Petersburg.

Among the 16 people who died, 3 were from St. Petersburg and the rest were locals; 2 were women and the rest were men; it was not a robbery incident because the property was in good condition; all deaths occurred in the relatively warm period from April to October.

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However, there is an example in winter, but it is not the naked body that dies in winter; some of the clothes taken off are neatly stacked, and some are more messy.

Sergey Nikki, chief expert of the Moscow Forensic Examination Bureau, believes that in addition to symptoms of fever, the deceased also suffered from mental disorder before death, which may be the result of high fever.

Or something may have entered the body, causing high fever and "hallucinations", putting the person in a state of delirium.

After comprehensive analysis, someone concluded that the human body had entered toxins that could cause high fever and unconsciousness.

Considering that the deaths occurred in late spring, summer, and early autumn, it can be assumed that all the victims were poisoned by some kind of animal or plant.

For example, smelling poisonous flowers, eating poisonous mushrooms, being bitten by poisonous snakes... There is a kind of morning glory in the swamp, which can excrete a kind of narcotic essential oil.

But this kind of morning glory can also be encountered in the swamps of Siberia, Transbaikal Lake and central Russia, but no naked corpses have been found there.

The locals are extremely cautious about mushrooms. They only pick familiar varieties since they were young and will never pick and eat them randomly.

It is also impossible to accidentally eat poisonous mushrooms.

In the end, there was only one most reasonable explanation left - being bitten by a poisonous snake.

According to locals, there is a highly venomous "flying snake" living in the swamps here. This snake is 30-40 centimeters long. The male snake has a protrusion on the top of its head, which looks like a cockscomb.

"Flying Snake" can jump and fly. It can jump up to tens of meters and jump from trees dozens of meters high.

Indonesian palm snakes are similar.

As for whether there are really "flying snakes" in the swamps here, there is currently no evidence, so the mystery of the dead in Vips Heights has not yet been solved.