14 DAY TRIAL // Residents of Myjava, a small Slovakian town near the border shared with the Check Republic, were shocked after the river running through the area turned bloody-red overnight. Superstitious locals started panicking over the fact that the horror-like red river is a sign of the evil that will come upon them.
One of the locals went for a morning walk when he discovered that the river running through the town center was red. “I just could not believe my eyes. The river was dark red. It was like something from a horror film. Blood cascading through the center of town,” Roman Podbrezova, a 65-year-old local said according to Daily Mail.
Locals started fearing that the color of the river was actually the result of a mass murder that happened over night and all kind of horror movie scenarios came into their minds. “This is really creepy. Yesterday evening I walked past here and it was its normal color. Now it looks like someone slaughtered 1,000 virgins or something,” another local said at the sight of the bloody water.
Officials are trying to keep locals calm and track the source of the contamination. “At the moment we are thinking it could have come from dead fish or maybe someone washed a barrel containing blood in the river. It seems it came from the drains directly above the museum,” police spokesman Elena Antalova told the press.
After a few tests it was proved that the color of the river is actually triggered by a blood spill somewhere around the river's track. The main suspect for now is a slaughterhouse that dumps the remains into a filtering retaining pool before being released into the river.
It is possible that the pool encountered a problem and the waste could not be filtered properly, releasing blood in the river and causing the horror scene the locals are dealing with. The river now has to be declared unsanitary after being infected with blood of unknown origins that can be a potential hazard for the residents.