The provided text discusses various aspects of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. It highlights the resilience of people, including elderly women, living in contaminated areas, tourists visiting the zone with precautions, and eerie phenomena like creepy dolls and a gas mask room. The text also mentions the unfinished amusement park, the "Bloody Forest" with red trees, artistic shadows depicting human figures, radiation-eating fungi, and mutant animals found in the area due to the nuclear disaster.
Here are the key facts extracted from the provided text:
1. Old women and mutant animals endured high radiation levels in Chernobyl.
2. 1,200 people known as "sitting cars" returned to the exclusion zone after the Chernobyl accident, mostly women.
3. Tourists visit the exclusion zone with proper precautions, including leaving radioactive shoes outside.
4. A massive sarcophagus was built to contain the failed nuclear reactor.
5. An abandoned amusement park in Chernobyl was never officially opened to the public.
6. The "Bloody Forest" consists of trees with red pines that are slow to decompose due to radiation.
7. Graffiti artists created shadow-like figures on the walls and streets of Pripyat.
8. Fungi in Chernobyl's damaged reactor use melanin to transform gamma rays into chemical energy.
9. There are mutant animals in Chernobyl with congenital defects due to radiation exposure.