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The Kaali crater

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

Estonia has a meteorite crater young enough to be remembered. Around 1500 BC an iron meteorite broke up over the island of Saaremaa and blasted a 110-metre crater, now a round lake ringed by trees, plus eight smaller pits. It landed on inhabited land, and Estonian and Finnish folklore preserves what may be the memory: the Kalevala’s tale of the sun being stolen and fire falling from the sky. The crater is real, walkable and eerie. PUBLIC site, Saaremaa.

The ground it haunts

Kaali, Saaremaa (Estonia). Source: A real Bronze Age impact crater, possibly remembered in folklore. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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