A mysterious sleeping epidemic that makes residents of a village known as Sleepy Hollow doze off for days at a time has been identified.
Although Doctors have said it is caused by excessive fluid in the brain, they have been unable to identify the reason the condition is affecting residents in the remote village of Kalachi, in northern Kazakhstan.
Locals say the strange sleeping disorder which has plagued the residents of Kalachi for nearly four years now is getting worse, with nearly 14 per cent of the towns 600 residents having been affected.
Over the summer, 60 people were taken to hospital suffering from the condition, which leaves people feeling dizzy, unable to stand, fatigued and with memory problems.
Some have also reported suffering from vivid hallucinations.
Doctors have already ruled out viruses and bacterial infections like meningitis as the cause.
Scientists have also been unable to find any chemicals in the soil or water that might be causing the sleeping sickness.
Many locals believe the cause may be coming from nearby former Soviet-era uranium mines that are now abandoned.
However, miners who worked down the mine have also not been affected, while tests have shown that radiation levels in the village and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk, once a prosperous area but now a ghost town that surrounds the abandoned mine, are the same as background levels.
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