Yanar Dagh (Burning Mountain)

Yanar Dagh (also spelled Yanar Dag; English: "Burning Mountain") is a geological feature on the Absheron Peninsula near Baku, Azerbaijan, where natural gas seeps from a thin, porous layer of sandstone and burns as a continuous flame. Source descriptions characterize it as a natural gas fire that burns perpetually on a hillside, with flames reported to rise up to about 3 metres. The phenomenon is presented in geological and travel sources as a natural, ongoing combustion of seeping hydrocarbons rather than as the result of a documented supernatural event. Culturally, Yanar Dagh is commonly cited alongside Azerbaijan's national epithet "the Land of Fire," and is treated in travel literature as a notable landscape feature that exemplifies the region's association with natural flames. The supplied sources do not include named spirits, folkloric narratives, eyewitness testimony of supernatural occurrences, or reports of paranormal phenomena beyond the persistent natural flame itself. Explanatory accounts in the available material frame the site in geological terms (natural gas seep) rather than as explicitly haunted or inhabited by specific entities.