In 1932, three Yemeni travelers decided to start a bold adventure across the desert of the Empty Quarter, in search of a commercial alternative to shorten the distances between Hadramout and the border areas of Saudi Arabia. None of them expected that their journey would turn into one of the most mysterious and exciting novels in the history of the Arabian Peninsula. With the night, and while they were preparing for camping, they noticed a glow away on the horizon, closer to the lights of a remote city in a desert that is not known.

A city that does not resemble anything
when they approached cautiously, amazing features were exposed to them: a self -standing city, with shiny domes and high minarets, which look fully lit without making a single voice or any sign of life. There were no roads, caravans, or even fire smoke, but the buildings were radiating a still light. The most surprising is that the sand surrounding the city was cold, although they crossed under the incendiary afternoon sun. One of them tried to approach, but he felt an invisible force backward, as if he collided with a wall of the air.

disappearance without a trace. But when dawn dawn, there was no city. She disappeared completely, and only a huge circle of charred sand remains, as if something supernatural from here. They did not find a dome, a minaret, nor even a simple effect that proves what they saw. The place was silent ... terrifying ... and mysterious.

Post -return Warning
The three men returned to Hadramout, loaded with astonishment and fear. Someone remained silent for a long time, then he started talking with strange words, and he only understood it with difficulty. He used to repeat one phrase until he lost his mind completely before his death: "Do not enter the city of secret ... it is not ours!" As for his family, I refused to talk about the incident at all, and avoiding the residents of the region to mention what happened, as if everyone decided to forget what happened, or at least not to approach it again.

Legend or fact? There are those who believe that what the travelers saw were manifested by another world, perhaps a gateway to the world of the jinn, which appear at certain times and disappear without impact. In a specific Hadrami villages, this area is still called "shine", and the residents are warned against heading towards it, while old exploratory maps show a strange gap in that area, as if someone deliberately hidden what is in it.