{"id":56299,"date":"2013-12-04T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=56299"},"modified":"2013-12-04T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:37:40","slug":"the-river-of-blood-villagers-shock-as-slovakian-waterway-turns-red-overnight-like-something-from-a-horror-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=56299","title":{"rendered":"The river of blood: Villagers&#8217; shock as Slovakian waterway turns red overnight &#8216;like something from a horror film&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Myjava-in-Slovakia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-56295\" title=\"\u054d\u0578\u056c\u057e\u0561\u056f\u056b\u0561,\u056f\u0561\u0580\u0574\u056b\u0580 \u0563\u0565\u057f\" alt=\"Myjava in Slovakia\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Myjava-in-Slovakia.jpg\" width=\"571\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Myjava-in-Slovakia.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Myjava-in-Slovakia-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Myjava-in-Slovakia-494x300.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rumours were rife in a Slovakian town this week when a river running through turned bright red.<\/p>\n<p>The river in Myjava, a small municipality on the border to the CzechRepublic, had changed colour over night and turned into &#8216;blood&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Police have been called in to investigate the matter, but it is believed to be a faulty filtering system from a slaughterhouse upstream.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Podbrezova, 65, had gone for a morning walk when he saw the drastic change to the river which runs through the centre of the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I just could not believe my eyes,\u2019 he said. \u2018The river was dark red. It was like something from a horror film. Blood cascading through the centre of town.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Elena Antalova said: \u2018We are checking the source of the blood and what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At the moment we are thinking it could have come from dead fish or maybe someone washed a barrel containing blood in the river.<\/p>\n<p>The waste from a slaughterhouse higher up the River Myjava is usually pumped into a retaining pool where it is filtered before being released into the river.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rumours were rife in a Slovakian town this week when a river running through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":56295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[4613],"class_list":["post-56299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-slovakia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}