The Perm Anomaly: Russia’s M-Zone

Deep in the forests of Russia's Ural Mountains lies a region where electronics fail, compasses spin, and people report missing time. The Soviets called it the M-Zone.

This episode of Unsettled: The Hidden Record explores the legend and reality of the Perm Anomaly—a mysterious geographic hotspot near the village of Molebka, long suspected of magnetic and gravitational disturbances. UFO sightings, radiation spikes, and unexplainable physical symptoms have all been linked to this stretch of wilderness.

During the Cold War, Soviet scientists quietly studied the region while media reports were suppressed. Even after the collapse of the USSR, documentation remains scattered and incomplete.

Is it a natural geomagnetic oddity? A relic of hidden weapons testing? Or something stranger still?

This is the story of a zone the Soviets couldn’t explain—and didn’t want to talk about.