# The Land of Wolves (Chernobyl) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795 "2006-04-22T22:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/1 "2006-04-22T22:31:46Z")
This is not mundane or pointless. Continuing the idea the Coldfire had when he made [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=248126&highlight=Cherynobyl) thread two years ago, I link you to that person’s further doctumentation of the effects of the Chernobyl catastrophe. [The Land of Wolves](http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter27.html). [Here](http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/) is her main site, and here is her previous work [Ghost Town](http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html). NPR has also done a [recent story](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5355810) on Chernobyl, (Warning the account the widow of one of the fireman gives may bring you to tears.) and here is an [AP news story](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_sc/chernobyl_crumbling_shelter_1) released today on the current state of Chernobyl. I don’t really have any way right now to express my thoughts, except to say I greatly admire this woman, and believe her site should stay up. It is, indeed a documentation, and a stark warning. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/2 "2006-04-22T23:11:04Z")
Thanks very much for the link. Just reading and looking at the shots now. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/3 "2006-04-23T00:29:00Z")
Re-reading **Coldfire’s** thread I see that it was alleged by some that the Ghost Town site was a fraud. I am not convinced that it is a fraud, based on the photos of her motocycle, and the footage, including footage inside the kindergarten. (Also, they say her information was inaccurate, but don’t go in depth. You can’t really prove either side.) I think maybe the detractions were aimed at silencing this account. Look all around her site, and decide for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/4 "2006-04-23T03:04:25Z")
As for the fraud claims, the claims are that the pictures are from a standard official tour of the area, not from lone motorcycle rides. In any case, the pictures are still from the area and it is still an amazing, informative and sometimes beautifully written story. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/5 "2006-04-23T03:30:37Z")
Another very painful [photo essay](http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/index.html) I saw today linked from Boing-Boing. Made my heart hurt. Poor kids born into this. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/6 "2006-04-23T04:26:34Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Re-reading **Coldfire’s** thread I see that it was alleged by some that the Ghost Town site was a fraud. I am not convinced that it is a fraud, based on the photos of her motocycle, and the footage, including footage inside the kindergarten. (Also, they say her information was inaccurate, but don’t go in depth. You can’t really prove either side.) I think maybe the detractions were aimed at silencing this account. Look all around her site, and decide for yourself. She raises the allegations as to whether her “Ghost Town” photos and commentary were fake [here.](http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/afterword.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/7 "2006-04-23T04:39:43Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > Another very painful [photo essay](http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/index.html) I saw today linked from Boing-Boing. Made my heart hurt. Poor kids born into this. I’ve just looked through that too. Thanks, **capybara**. Sobering. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Emeria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Emeria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emeria)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/8 "2006-04-23T15:10:58Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > Another very painful [photo essay](http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/index.html) I saw today linked from Boing-Boing. Made my heart hurt. Poor kids born into this. Thank you for posting this. Very powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-land-of-wolves-chernobyl/353795/9 "2006-04-23T18:02:48Z")
Did you listen to the song Ghost Town, and watch the various videos also? The video she put together to go with the Ghost Town song is haunting. Looking at all those people in Pripyat going about their lives as though everything was going to be all right. They didn’t know their world was already topsy turvy. Combine that with the words in the “Death is Beautiful” essay on the NPR story about how the sight of the policemen in gas masks calmed the citizens and made them feel all was well, and you really get a feel for how it was to be there that day.