Urban legends.
...The old man, they say, was sitting on the ground, crying, and asking for a drink of water. But, and the master, the owner of the salt factory, said: they say, you give one, so others will ask. Well, we took them, the serdechny, to the salt works. And in the evening they heard - the old man died. But, and the master ordered to bury him away from the cemetery, since he is a stranger. Well, they buried it. A lot of time has passed, we forgot about that case, and let's put huts there.