The sleeping sickness of Kalachi, Kazakhstan (with the place or the syndrome sometimes called sleepy hollow) is a conjectured medical condition which causes a person to sleep for days or weeks at a time, together with other symptoms such …

Aug 12, 2016 · In 2013, the residents of Kalachi, a small village in Kazakhstan, began to take to their beds with a mysterious illness. They couldn’t stop falling asleep. When they woke up, …

Jul 16, 2015 · For three years people in the Kazakhstan village Kalachi – nicknamed 'Sleepy Hollow' – have been puzzled as they fall asleep for two days at a time. Bizarre hallucinations, especially children,...

Apr 25, 2015 · Medical experts are baffled why so many people in the small Kazakhstan town of Kalachi spontaneously fall asleep — sometimes for days at a time. Imagine going about your day-to-day life only to abruptly fall asleep, waking up days or even a week later with no memory of what’s happened.

May 18, 2021 · Almost seven years ago, two villages in Kazakhstan were dubbed as the "sleepy hollow" after a quarter of their population has been struck by the mysterious sleeping disease. Scientists explore...

Nov 4, 2021 · In Kalachi, a village located 230 miles northwest of the Kazakhstan capital, a strange incident recently occurred when around 160 residents slept for weeks at a stretch. This is why the village...

Feb 27, 2015 · Residents of a small village in northern Kazakhstan dubbed "Sleepy Hollow" are being evacuated after scientists failed to determine the cause of a long-running "sleeping sickness".

Mar 23, 2015 · In a little village called Kalachi, tucked away in the northern region of Kazakhstan, over 120 residents have been hit by a strange malady that has doctors and scientists baffled. Without...

Since Spring of 2013, one in 10 of the 600 villagers of Kalachi are falling asleep in broad daylight and no one seems to know why. They’ve called it a sleep epidemic with symptoms including hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss.

Jul 22, 2015 · Since 2013, a mysterious sleeping sickness has been affecting two isolated villages in northern Kazakhstan. Over the past two years, more than 140 people in Kalachi and Krasnogorsk have fallen asleep suddenly, sometimes while walking or riding their bikes, and occasionally becoming unconscious for up to six days at a time, waking up with memory ...