The House of Salt & Story-Episode 3: The Ghost Town That Time Forgot: Pyramiden and What We Leave Behind
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The House of Salt & Story-Episode 3: The Ghost Town That Time Forgot: Pyramiden and What We Leave Behind
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Picture this: You're walking through an apartment in the Arctic. There's a teacup on the table, half-empty. Sheet music open on a piano. A child's toy on the floor. Everything covered in frost.
The people who lived here left twenty-seven years ago. And they left everything behind.
Welcome to Pyramiden—the Soviet ghost town at 78 degrees north, where polar bears now patrol the streets and time stands completely still.
In this episode of House of Salt & Story, historian Alexandria Love takes you inside one of the most remote, most perfectly preserved ghost towns on Earth. From 1927 to 1998, the Soviet Union built a utopia in hell: heated swimming pools in permanent darkness, grand pianos shipped to the Arctic, crystal chandeliers in a place where the sun doesn't rise for four months of the year.
A pinch of salt to hold what lasts,
A tale to carry what time forgets.