Ever felt like you were in a horror film?

Where we stayed overnight wasn't just Gana's farm or a sprawled inhabitance of nomadic Mongolians. Right next to the farm were old abandoned buildings in which few people had been inside in years. Talking to Gana we found out that the land was a former Soviet colony that was deserted after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, the Russians all left and the Mongolians never took interest into the buildings, leaving them to crumble and rot. We all found the ghost town creepy, but our Russian friend Katiya noted that she found the place particularly scary because it reminded her of Chernobyl. Around the buildings grass grew over everything and noisy grasshoppers and small birds fluttered around amongst the field littered with cow patties and old bones. Most of the buildings remained open and horses and goats wandered throughout them, the horses enjoying the shelter of the first floors and the goats liking the view from the top floors.
Inside these buildings floor boards broke through, wall paper and paint peeled off the walls and windows were shattered. Floors creaked with every foot step and some broke through.
It was unclear what the old town was like. We were told it was an old sanitarium which only helped to make the place even more creepy. It was difficult to tell what each of the buildings were used for but one looked like a school and another like a hospital. As I walked around the ghost town and through the houses I couldn't help but make up ghost stories in my head. Gana had little interest in the town. When we brought it up he had little to say and it seemed like he didn't want to talk about it all. With so many people living near the ghost town, it seemed strange it was completely empty but the locals prefer their traditional lifestyle and have no interest in moving out of their yurts into the dilapidated buildings. I can't stress how eerie an actual ghost town is and the animals occupying the buildings made the place even more surreal. Looking up to see several goats just standing out of a shattered window is, quite simply, abnormal. Watching a group of horses exit from an open doorway stops you dead in your tracks, frozen by the odd reality. Occasionally kicking odd leg bones while walking through the grass can only help to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.Although unrelated to the actual ghost town, this horse head stuck was stuck in a tree as well. Unlike the buildings, this head was stuck there recently because of an old Mongolian superstitious ritual after a good horse dies. Why exactly the cut the horse's head off and stick it in a tree, I'm not sure but it's enough to make an unsuspecting girl scream.