The Mount Musin: an unsolved enigma

Mount Musinè, which means "little donkey" in Piedmontese dialect, is located 20 km from Turin, on the road that leads to the Val di Susa, and can be considered the first Alpine spur. With a vaguely pyramidal shape, bare and inhospitable in the upper part, it seems to be appreciated above all by vipers.

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 · 9 Jan 2024

Here are the reasons why the Mount Musin is included among the mysterious places and how official science and archeology respond to them:

• 1) There have always been rumors of werewolves, of ghostly images wandering in the shadows, of strange animals. There would be a cursed cave in which, every May 1^st, witches, wizards and werewolves would meet to praise the forces of evil. According to some writings from the 17^th and 18^th centuries, the valley was often filled with "demonic music", accompanied by anguished screams full of pain. An ancient legend has it that King Herod was exiled to this mountain, as punishment for the massacre of the innocents.
• 2) According to some historians, it was precisely in this area that the flaming cross and the writing "In Hoc Signo Vinces" appeared to Constantine in the sky, signs that convinced the emperor to convert to Christianity. The so-called "Campi Taurinati", mentioned in the chronicles of the time, would seem to coincide with the flat area of ​​Grugliasco and Rivoli which separates Turin from the Musinè massif.
• 3) According to what many esotericists declared, the place would be a gigantic catalyst of beneficial energies. Let's not forget that it would be on an "orthogonal" line (one of those that surround the Earth like a spider's web and indicate areas of particular energy concentration) which, entering from France, crosses our entire peninsula. According to others it would even be a sort of "window" open onto another dimension.
• 4) The site would amplify, when one stops there, the extrasensory faculties that each of us would have, but which are evident only in particular circumstances. The diviners themselves have declared that rods and pendulums would move much more strongly than normal near the mountain.
• 5) The area has always been the scene of apparitions of mysterious blue, greenish and fluorescent flashes. They made their appearance as far back as 966 AD. At the time, Bishop Amicone was in Val Susa to consecrate the church of San Michele on Mount Pirchiano, opposite the Musinè. During the night, while awaiting the arrival of the high prelate, the valley residents witnessed a fascinating but frightening spectacle: the sky was crossed by beams and globes of fire which illuminated the church as if a fire had broken out. Other stories tell of chariots of fire that often flew over the summit.
• 6) Nowadays, night and day sightings of unidentified flying objects are frequent.
• 7) The mountain, being an ancient volcano that has been extinct for millennia, is full of tunnels and irregular passages dug by the flow of ancient magma, but largely unexplored.
• 8) At the foot of the Musinè there is a "cone of shadow" that is an area of ​​interference that obscures any radio transmission. Even private planes flying over the area are having their radio transmissions jammed. These problems cease the moment you move away from the mountain.
• 9) The distribution of vegetation appears strange, particularly rich at the foot of the mountain, but then thinning out almost suddenly as the altitude increases. The Forest Service has in vain spent huge amounts of capital to reforest the area, in which the young plants seem to be dying one after the other. Popular belief explains the mystery with the continuous procession of damned souls who go up and down the mountain without stopping. According to a slightly more modern belief, it would be the radioactive emanations from a secret base that produce this sterility.
• 10) The slopes are rich in rock carvings and large stones arranged in a perhaps ritual manner, evidence of a past still yet to be deciphered. One boulder even depicts an African giraffe, but these animals did not live in Piedmont, not even in the Neolithic.
• 11) The climb is flanked, in the Torre della Vigna area, between 400 and 900 metres, by a series of cup-shaped structures, called cupellas. These are arranged in such a way as to form celestial maps. The Northern Cross, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia and the Pleiades are represented. In practice there is the whole northern hemisphere but also other representations not yet identified. The view from the valley is evocative when, once the cavities are filled with fuel and set on fire, the mountain is covered with many small lights.
• 12) Musinè is also home to a very strange obelisk which gained worldwide fame thanks to a book by Peter Kolosimo entitled "Spaceships on prehistory". Some crosses appear on the surface which probably represent five people, a circle at the top left with a dot in the center and two semicircles cut out at the bottom which strikingly resemble modern flying saucers. According to the writer it would be a sort of representation of the evolutions of aerial machines that were seen in the sky by our ancient ancestors.

• 13) Between 1973 and 1978, the year in which she was taken away, someone placed a metal plaque on the slopes of the mountain praising "universal brotherhood among all peoples". The text speaks of "electrodynamic points", of "astral entities" and indicates ten great figures of the past, from Christ to Martin Luther King, indicating them as examples to follow. On October 7, 1984, a group of esotericists made another copy and replaced it in its place. This new version is made of anodized aluminum and was cemented to the base of the large cross that stands out on the mountain.
• 14) What do science and archeology respond to these statements? First of all, the lights in the sky are ball lightning (a rather rare phenomenon) or traditional lightning, attracted by the thick underlying layers, all permeated with magnetite (however, they have also occurred in the absence of thunderstorms). There is no greater ufological event than in other areas of Italy (it is however present and it is difficult to make reliable statistics in this field because there are many variables, from the willingness of people to talk about it to the quality of the investigation carried out by those investigate the phenomenon). The brightness on the slopes of the mountain is due to the presence of "wisps", as a result of gas still escaping from inside the mountain (even after millennia? Without considering that the "wisps" are produced by decaying material). The presence of such a hostile environment in the upper part of the mountain derives from the lack of water sources underground (but why is the diversification so marked? And why this almost irrational insistence of the authorities in trying to reforest the area?). The obelisk is either a fake from the 70s, according to some (but the evidence?), or it is a representation of sunrise and sunset with men in adoration (while considering the circle pointed inside it as an image of the sun may be correct because it is common to many prehistoric civilizations, seeing in the two semicircles a representation of it at the beginning and end of the day is pure speculation).