"Relatives told me of four empty villages: everyone died - children, adults, young people."

At the top of the first archway, I looked back at the empty village.

Several members of the expedition spent the next day exploring the empty village.

"Everyone who gets out is very frightened, and no one can convince them to stay," said a woman in a nearly empty village.

Estonians from the mainland came to live in the empty villages.

They found only one empty village, and lacked the supplies to reach more villages with the full force.

In the last empty village, the vast cactus-man told them of himself.

The empty village has ruins of a church and other constructions.

The Shadow watched the empty village, and then began to move through the bushes in a wide circle.

The quiet of the empty village made speech difficult, as if it was an intrusion.