The story happened a couple of years ago. We decided to get out in a crowd of 3 people, to culturally celebrate the night of Ivan Kupala on one of the lakes, which are rich in the region where I now live.

The region is not completely deaf, but the lake we have chosen is located at a sufficient distance from civilization, in a forest, surrounded by a swamp. The lake itself is practically round, and if you stand with your back to the road that leads to this lake from the last signs of civilization, then there are two roads around the lake itself.

On the right, it’s good enough for cars to drive through, and on the left, it’s barely passable for extreme pedestrians with deep puddles, snake holes and the threat of falling into the swamp that surrounds this lake from three sides in case of careless movement. On the opposite side of the lake, the roads merge into one again and go somewhere further, along an embankment through a swamp, towards the next lake, and maybe some signs of civilization that we did not get to.

A nook was chosen as a place for the celebration, fenced on both sides with bushes so as not to glow too much in case other companies were there.

We got to the place along a pedestrian, to put it mildly, rough road, because we were slightly afraid that some drunken company would decide to ride along the shore with a breeze and, without noticing, would run into us. We walked with lanterns, since the site, despite the summer night, is still too dark in the forest not to stumble, and, having counted all the ledges of the embankment with a ridge, still plunge into the swamp. We arrived, surprised that besides us, it seems, no one else went to such a cold and such a distance. They began to sort out supplies, prepare a fire, as from somewhere to the left, a splash of water and a woman's laughter were clearly heard.

- Who is it?

V. perked up, who, after the time when my wife and I got lost in three pines, was most afraid that we would rush into the night, or that the forester would come and, quite obviously, give us a portion of real slaps in the face. He was not even reassured by the fact that we would have a small fire, located in accordance with all the rules, and there were bottles of water nearby.

- Mermaids. We won’t go swimming today,” I answered, as if automatically thinking.

And in fact, the site, who? We passed by that place five minutes ago. And if there was another company, we would definitely have heard them, we would have seen the fire or the light from the lanterns. The bushes are not so dense that it cannot be seen or heard. And the lake itself is small enough to clearly see the light from the lantern even on its opposite shore, if only this light were.

The splashing of water and laughter meanwhile continued. Forgetting about the fire for a while, they shone their lanterns on the water, saw circles on the water, shrugged their shoulders, well, you never know, the fish splashed, hardly anyone would go swimming in such a cold. Where does women's laughter come from? Or maybe the girls are sitting in the dark and telling funny stories. Do not go to them now?

They turned off the lanterns, and, no longer paying attention to the renewed laughter and splashing of water, they finally lit the site, strung bread on sticks, we sit, we freeze, we regret that we did not take the barbecue and meat with us. We soon realized that we were hearing something else besides the silvery-voiced laughter of women and the noisy splashing of water. Someone sang. , without words. Again a female voice, this time from the left and behind at the same time, clearly from the side of the swamp. But it's not clear where exactly. And it seems not loud, but enough for us to hear the singing without interrupting the conversation.

- And who is this?

- Definitely not a forester. Swamp?

Shut up, listen. That's right, singing. And it's unlike anything we've heard before. It doesn't look like any tape or digital recording. And what company in a sober, yes even drunk, mind, will settle down in a swamp and turn on music there? Yes, and strange music for an idle company, one melody that the site performs one female voice for half an hour? We weren't sure exactly how long it had been before we paid attention to her. I wanted to go take a look, but I was dissuaded by the fact that in the dark, even with a lantern, I would definitely fall into the swamp, and I would have to be looked for with a forester and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and at the same time explain what the hell we were doing here at night.

For some reason, it became quite uncomfortable to sit, and we got quite cold, we had to put out the fire, collect our belongings and garbage, and move towards the house. By the way, when they passed by the place where the splash of water and women's laughter were heard, they shone lanterns in that direction. The shore was empty, only circles diverged along the water surface. So we've been wondering since then, what was it? But the singing accompanied us to the very road that led away from the site of the lake.

Most people take the beauty of our world for granted, simply forgetting about it in the maelstrom of everyday life. And, no matter how sad it may be, humanity has made a lot of efforts to speed up the process of destroying the natural beauty of the world around us. Recreation in nature is a great way to restore strength and energy. Clean air and cool water can work wonders. Today we bring to your attention a collection of the 12 most unusual and mysterious lakes that will surely give you a lot of new experiences:

12. Kliluk (British Columbia, Canada)

This lake, located in British Columbia, is decorated with multi-colored spots that are clearly visible from a distance. Studies have shown that the waters of the lake contain high level minerals such as magnesium, calcium and sodium sulfate. These substances provoke the appearance of peculiar spots in the summer months. This feature of the lake from ancient times made the locals consider this reservoir sacred.

11. Lake Vostok (Antarctica)


A feature of Lake Vostok, located in East Antarctica, is that it is one of the largest subglacial lakes in the world. Once it came to the surface, but as a result of global warming, it was buried under the ice. Studies have shown that the lake may have its own ecosystem, which holds a lot of surprises, given the fact that it has been isolated for thousands of years.

10. Taal Lake (Batangas, Philippines)


Taal looks impressive from a bird's eye view. What is even more amazing is that this lake is of natural origin. At its center is volcanic island. What is even more surprising is that there is also a lake in the center of this island! The island-volcano itself belongs to the category of active ones, although over the past decade only one minor eruption has been recorded here.

9 Groom Lake (Nevada, USA)


Area 51 in Nevada has always been a source of various rumors and gossip due to its closedness to the public. It is for this reason that the Bridegroom Lake, located to the north of it, is considered one of the objects where strange and mysterious things happen. It is a salt marsh whose flat surface is ideal for military airstrip use.

8 Lake Hillier (Esperance, Western Australia)


A lake so strange color pink in itself casts suspicion as to what is hidden in its waters. In fact, everything is quite simple: the lake itself is located among the eucalyptus grove, and a dye produced by bacteria that lives in its depths gives it a special pinkish hue. Eucalyptus, in turn, create the necessary contrast.

7. Plitvice Lakes (Croatia)


Plitvice Lakes in Croatia are widely known all over the world. Lime rocks contributed to the formation of the most intricate caves and waterfalls. It is they who annually attract millions of visitors to this national park.

6 Peyto Lake (Alberta, Canada)


The Canadian Rockies are one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world. One of the amazing local attractions is Peyto Lake. It is most beautiful in the summer, when the caps of glaciers melt, giving its waters an amazing shade.

5. Five Flower Lake (north of Sichuan, China)


This lake got its name due to its special properties. Locals consider the lake enchanted. Algae, fallen tree trunks and travertine give it a rich range of shades.

4. Lake Abraham (Alberta, Canada)

It is hard to believe that a person is able to create a reservoir of such beauty. Abraham Lake was established on the upper reaches of the North Saskatchewan River in the lower Canadian Rockies. It looks so majestic that it fits perfectly into the surrounding landscape. It is made unique by the frozen ice bubbles located under its surface.

3. Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia)


The lake is the largest freshwater reservoir in the world. According to some estimates, this lake is over 25 million years old. Thanks to such a long time, today this lake is home to the most amazing forms of life.

2. Crater Lake (Oregon, USA)


This lake is the main tourist attraction in national park Crater Lake in Oregon. It is the deepest and one of the most beautiful lakes in the USA. Due to the almost complete natural isolation, this lake is one of the cleanest reservoirs.

1. Lakes in the Badan Jaran Desert (China and Mongolia)


An oasis in the desert is always spectacular. The Badan-Jaran desert covers the territories of Mongolia and China and is famous for the presence of more than 140 lakes. These lakes are located among sand dunes and appeared thanks to a network of underground sources.

It is known that on May 18, 1960, three priests saw a horse-headed monster in Loch Ree, Ireland. This is one of three lakes in Ireland where the monster has been seen. In 2011, scientists conducted a search expedition, which received media coverage. All these facts only fueled public interest in the mysterious lakes. Therefore, we suggest you make a trip to the ten most mysterious lakes in the world, where monsters were seen, the existence of which on this moment not proven.

Bear Lakes, Russia

Eyewitnesses claim that a creature that feeds on livestock lives in this mysterious lake. According to a local shepherd, a monster with a small head and a giant mouth crawled out of the water and swallowed the cow whole. However, ichthyologists investigated the lake and denied all rumors about the existence of the monster.

Loch Morar, Scotland

Locals claim to have seen a huge creature in the lake. It is curious that it even received the nickname "Morag". However, the analysis of Loch Morar showed nothing, so we can only assume that Morag is a real fiction, created against the backdrop of the "boom of dinosaurs" and the "success" of the famous monster - Nessie.

Lake Brosno, Russia

Eyewitnesses claim that the local monster is very much like a pangolin resembling a plesiosaur. As a rule, most of them talk in words about the monster, but a few even managed to photograph the lizard. Nevertheless, there are no official facts about the existence of the monster at the moment.

Lake Champlain, USA - Canada

For the first time, a local monster was described by an eyewitness, a sheriff named Nathan Mooney in 1883. He claimed to have seen a huge black snake about 50 meters long on the lake. In 1977, the tourist Sandra Mansi was lucky, and she managed to capture the head, neck and part of the back of the monster on camera film. The locals gave the monster the nickname "Champ". And the latest eyewitness testimony indicates that the Champ monster has about five humps on its back.

Lake Storshen, Jämtland Province, Sweden

The most mysterious local inhabitant of this lake is a huge pangolin, the first information about which appeared back in 1635. Evidence of his existence was absent for a long time, and he himself was considered an ordinary medieval legend, but at the very beginning of 2000, local media provided information that two girls saw the monster. Initially, they simply did not believe them, but after some time, huge footprints were found on the shore of the lake, and their owner has not yet been identified. There is also evidence that scientists have set a giant trap for the pangolin on the lake.

Lake Kok-Kol, Dzhambul region, Kazakhstan

Eyewitnesses claim that a giant (at least fifteen meters long) bloodthirsty monster lives in this mysterious Kok-Kol lake, which drags animals and birds under the water. The locals even gave the monster a nickname - "the water spirit of Idahar".

Lake Kanas, Xinjiang Province, China

In 1985, students at a local university first noticed a huge living creature. A little later, rumors appeared that the monster was constantly taking birds and animals underwater. In the 90s, the monster showed no signs of life. However, in 2011, several eyewitnesses claimed to have seen the creature rise to the surface. One of them even managed to capture the monster on camera.

Lake Labynkyr, Yakutia, Russia

For the first time, the Yakuts saw the Labynkyr devil in the 19th century. Unfortunately, there are no photos or evidence of the existence of the monster, but several scientific expeditions managed to fix the monster. In addition, the noise that the Labynkyr devil makes was recorded on film. Also, with the help of an echo sounder, a huge shadow was found in the lake, which does not fit any of the known fish in size. Locals claim that the monster is very vicious - it chases fishermen, eats deer and dogs.

In addition, the monster, there is where to turn around and hide. Lake Labynkyr is located at an altitude of more than a thousand meters. It is about fourteen kilometers long, with a maximum depth of 60 meters. At the bottom famous lake there are anomalous faults, which in some places increase the depth to almost a hundred meters. And under the steep banks there are several underwater caves.

Lake Okanagan, Canada

Ogopogo is considered the second legendary monster after Nessie, who glorified British Columbia. The monster was first seen in 1958. Eyewitnesses described him as a long snake lizard, with a body that resembles a barrel, a long neck and fins.

Loch Ness, Scotland

This is the world's most famous lake with a monster. A mysterious creature nicknamed Nessie, which gained its popularity back in the 6th century AD. BC, according to many scientists, is the last dinosaur living on earth.

On Earth, there are more than one hundred lakes, which are associated with all sorts of legends, mystical, horror stories, abnormal incidents. Therefore, they have the appropriate names: Dead, Smerdyache, Lake of Death. Some of them are anomalous from time immemorial, others have become so due to human activity ...

The dead stand like candles.

There are mysterious lakes that bring death to all living things, and on the territory of the former Soviet Union. One of them is in Latvia. His name is appropriate - Damn it!

Local residents of Devil's Lake do not favor, telling visitors that if a person is on the shore for a long time, he is seized by inexplicable horror. Tourists do not always believe the warnings and settle down to rest near the water, but after half an hour or an hour they jump up and try to get as far away from the lake as possible. The most impressionable then end up in a psychiatric hospital.

One of the local legends says that there is no bottom at Devil's Lake, so drowned people are never found.

Latvian scientists believe that the anomalies of the reservoir are due to relief features and put forward several versions of the origin of the lake.

According to one of them, it is a meteorite crater about 70 meters deep, at the bottom of which radioactive radon gas accumulates, destroying all life in the lake.

Recent studies of the lake show that a powerful flow of energy is constantly coming from the depths. That is why it is dangerous to be on the shore for more than an hour - a person can simply “go nuts”, and he will go crazy. The strongest flow of energy hits in the middle of the lake. Perhaps that is why not a single person has yet been able to successfully swim across the damn pond.

Near the village of Gerasimovka, in Kazakhstan, there is a small - one hundred meters long and sixty meters wide - Dead Lake.

It is surprising and sad that almost every year people drown in the Dead. Local residents try to avoid it and advise visiting tourists to do the same. However, they are tourists for that, to walk unbeaten paths!

For unknown reasons, even in the midst of a hot summer, the lake does not dry up, and the water remains icy in it. There are no fish in the reservoir, no algae grow, all types of aquatic insects are absolutely absent. And, by the way, you will not meet mosquitoes and flies on the shore either.

It is impossible to stay in the waters of the Dead Lake for a long time. A diver, even with a full tank, cannot stand more than three minutes, begins to suffocate for mysterious reasons and is forced to urgently rise to the surface.

Mostly visitors drown in the Dead, who do not heed the advice of local residents or simply do not know anything about the mysterious properties of the mysterious lake. Remarkably, drowned people do not float to the surface, as is usually the case after a few days, but stand at the bottom, straight, like candles.

Local scientists explain the lifelessness of the waters of the lake with some kind of gas escaping from the crevices of the bottom, but no special studies have been carried out there, and it is not known when it will be possible to conduct it.

Where do the drowned people disappear to?

In the lake, located near Pereslavl-Zalessky (Russia), local residents do not swim - it is forbidden, but fishermen catch fish. Quite often, they come across either fish species that are not known even to scientists at all, or real mutants: one-eyed, three-eyed, with paws instead of fins, and even hairy!

Representatives from the regional sanitary and epidemiological station repeatedly took the water of the lake for analysis: water is like water, closer in composition to mineral water. There are seven springs in the lake. The water level never drops, despite the fact that a river comes out of it and flows into Lake Pleshcheyevo, located next door, which feeds the city with water.

Every summer, tourists drown in the lake, ignoring the numerous prohibition boards installed on the shore. However, so far no one has been able to answer - where do the drowned disappear? The fishermen once saw how one of the bathing tourists swam into the middle of the lake, and then, screaming, disappeared under the water. A moment later, an oil slick appeared at this place, spreading all over the lake. In the evening, at the place of death of a person, a bright circle appeared, phosphorescent - a spot with a diameter of about five meters.

Two brave fishermen sailed in a boat to this place, and those watching from the shore suddenly saw how the whole boat was immediately lit up with some kind of greenish light. This lasted for several seconds, and then a fountain four meters high hit from the water. The fishermen immediately hurried to get out of the damn place, so that, God forbid, they themselves would not drown.

Several cases were recorded when those who bathed in the lake fell ill with an unknown skin disease. Their bodies were covered with horny scales, their face completely changed, their hair fell out. In addition, long processes similar to horns grew on the forehead, which subsequently fell off by themselves. All this went on for six months, then the disease slowly receded.

Divers who were exploring the bottom of the lake found several strange cracks in the ground, where the water goes at great speed. There is a well in the middle of the lake. But where it leads, no one has determined. Too deep.

Another deadly lake - Smerdyache - is located in the Shatursky district of the Moscow region. It is peaty, the water has a reddish-brown color, and in some places it even seems black. There is no fish in it, and among the locals Smerdyache is notorious. It is worth approaching him, as soon as the state of health worsens, there is a feeling of discomfort and anxiety. People regularly drown in Smerdyachy, and it is not surprising that many try to avoid it. From a bird's eye view, the lake looks like a perfect circle with an earthen bank.

Assumptions about the cosmic origin of the lake were made back in the late 80s of the last century, but this version has only now been proved. Specialists from the cosmo-chemistry laboratory, having examined the mysterious lake, came to the conclusion that it really is a crater formed after a giant meteorite fell in the distant past.

The horror of the ancient temple.

80 kilometers from St. Petersburg, in the vicinity of the city Pinery, local residents can show you another dead lake - Kanlishchenskoe. The name of the lake probably comes from the old Russian word “temple”, which meant the place where the ancient Rus made sacrifices to their gods. The forest surrounding the lake is full of small animals, birds and insects, but they prefer not to approach the water. There are no fish in the lake, and scientists cannot explain this mysterious fact.

Local residents say that near the lake, a person is seized with an inexplicable fear, and sometimes this happens to entire groups of people at the same time.

Occasionally, square pits with a cross section of one square meter are found on the shore. And on clear nights, a slight glow can be observed above the lake. Experts explain this phenomenon by gases released from the bottom, although the glow is located a meter above the water.

Has a bad reputation and Yachenskoye reservoir, located in the Kaluga region. One of its sites, the locals called the Thunder of the Lord and superstitiously bypass. In early spring, this cursed place is perfectly visible, as if outlined by an invisible circle. The fact is that for several years in a row accidents have been regularly occurring here, and half of them have been fatal. The reason is a sudden electric shock of great strength.

One of the last victims of the Thunder of the Lord was a Kaluga resident who, together with his family at the beginning of last summer, came to rest at the Yachensky reservoir. As soon as the family settled down on the shore, there was some kind of crackling, accompanied by a flash, and the clothes on the man immediately smoked and flared up. Coaches from a nearby sports base helped save the victim from imminent death. With severe burns that affected 50 percent of the body, the man was taken to the hospital.

What is the mystical Thunder of the Lord? Locals say that fireballs are to blame, which, like mosquitoes, circle over the same place in the reservoir. Ufologists add that the Thunder of the Lord is associated with UFOs that regularly land in the nearby Kaluga forest. And experts say that the anomalous fatality in the area of ​​​​the Yachensky reservoir occurs primarily due to man-made causes. The fact is that a high-voltage line runs along the shore of the reservoir, the wires of which in places sag so that they almost touch the water. And from time to time a favorable discharge environment is created, and a discharge from power lines strikes a gaping vacationer.

Poison from the periodic table.

Many bodies of water are associated with barbaric or ill-conceived human activities, and it is categorically not recommended to even approach them closer than a kilometer. For example, the deadly lake, located in the town of Cherdyn, in the Perm region, does not have a name at all. The locals bypass it “the tenth road”, And all because it is actually a trench filled with water, formed as a result of ... three nuclear explosions!

In winter, it is almost impossible to get to it - only along the winter road. The places around are deaf. The tests were carried out at a record minimum depth - only 270 meters, and the power of the explosions was twice the nuclear charge dropped on Hiroshima. The project was carried out under the code name Taiga” and meant the beginning of the “epoch-making” transfer of the northern rivers to the south. Fortunately for nature and people, this was all over, leaving only crumpled metal structures sticking out of the ground, heaps of cement and graphite turned into stone around the radioactive lake.

Recently the Karelian lake Syurzi has also become famous. First here at huge quantities the fish began to float up belly up. Then two fishermen died under mysterious circumstances, and another 15 were taken to the district hospital with severe poisoning.

A few months later, another tragedy. The fishermen had just settled down on a small island in the middle of the lake, when suddenly two of them lost consciousness.

It was something inexplicable,” one of the victims, a resident of the Leshukonsky district, Aleksey Shitikov, later said. - It seemed to me that some terrible force was crawling from the sky, my arms and legs immediately became heavier, the earth was gone from under my feet. My friend Venya fell completely. I jumped into the water and swam to the shore, began to call my father to help. But my father was also sick. Venya died at night.

The Shitikovs were sent to the regional hospital, and the corpse of Veniamin Rodionov was taken to the regional bureau of forensic examination. The relatives and friends of the deceased were told that an unknown poison had been found during the forensic chemical examination.

No natural anomalies were found on Syurzi, - they said after a medical and environmental study of the composition of lake water in the department natural resources administration of the Arkhangelsk region. - The only thing that was found was a significant excess of fluorine in the water.

However, fluorine is not some neutral element from the periodic table, and its danger should not be underestimated in any case. When in contact with the skin, scientists say, it causes severe burns, and inhalation of it leads to severe inflammation of the airways and lungs, which can result in pulmonary edema and death. Penetrating into water and soil, fluorine can remain in them for many years and lead to the most unpleasant consequences for animals, plants and, of course, people.

But how did the fluorine end up in the lake? On this score, the experts involved in the investigation of accidents have so far only an assumption. Syurzi is replete with springs and underwater rivers. So the poison could get into the lake from Arkhangelsk or from the Komi Republic, where there are quite a lot of chemical industries. However, this is only an assumption.

There are hundreds of mysterious lakes in the world, which are associated with mysterious stories, anomalous phenomena, they are shrouded in fascinating myths and legends like a shroud.

The fear of local residents of such lakes, which are notorious, was expressed even in their names: Devil's Lake, dead lake, Satan and others.

Let's make small excursion on some of them.

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Lake Smerdyache located in the Shatursky district of the Moscow region. Once crystal clear, the water in it has a pronounced red-brown color. The lake is an almost perfect circle with a diameter of approximately 250 meters. It got its name from the characteristic smell of hydrogen sulfide, which suddenly disappeared about 25 years ago. But once this smell led to the fact that a person next to a pond could faint.

However, local old-timers explain the origin of the name in a different way: Smerdyachye - not from the word "stink", but from the phrase "death of the devil". According to local legends, once upon a time there was a chapel on the shaft near the lake. One day, the ground suddenly shook, and the chapel, in which the deacon was located, fell into the lake and immediately went under water.

Another mystery is the sudden change in the depth of the reservoir. In 1985, its highest mark was 20 meters, and after 15 years, measurements showed the maximum distance from the surface to the bottom of 31 meters.

In 2002, a large scientific expedition was organized on Smerdyache. Specialists of the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry. IN AND. Vernadsky collected enough evidence to assert that the lake is of meteorite origin. The collected coastal soil samples contained materials of local sedimentary rocks melted upon impact. At the same time, the time of the fall of the Shatura meteorite was determined - about 10,000 years ago.

Sasha Mitrahovich 28.02.2016 10:21

Another mysterious body of water called Chertok(Devil's Lake) is located in the Shkeltovsky parish of the Aglon region of Latvia. The lake is small and very deep. People have never lived near it, the nearest villages are two to three kilometers away. In the press, Chertok is called the “bottomless lake of horror”, because, according to the stories of local residents, it cannot be crossed without risk to life, although it is only a few tens of meters from coast to coast. Moreover, according to beliefs, the Devil's Lake has no bottom at all, so the bodies of drowned people are never found in it.

The water here, for no apparent reason, changes color from transparent blue to almost black - despite the fact that there are practically no clouds in the sky at this time, and the presence of algae in the reservoir is minimal. For this feature, the lake received a second name - Devil's Eye.

The President of the Latvian Academy of Parapsychology, Valery Paramonov, is convinced that the reservoir is an anomalous zone that affects the human psyche. According to him, a powerful energy beam hits from the bottom of the lake, which is capable of terrifying a person who finds himself on the shore.

Scientific studies have established that at the bottom of Devil's Lake accumulates an inert radioactive gas, radon, which is seven times heavier than air and easily dissolves in water. According to scientists, the lake was formed from the fall of a cosmic body.

This is confirmed by the studies of several daredevil divers who saw melted rock in the depths. There is also a version that Chertok is connected underground with the rather distant Aglon Lake, so drowned people disappear in deep underground channels.

Devil's Lake is located next to the highway Aglona - Kraslava, and tourists often settle down to rest near its shores. However, after some time they leave, trying to get rid of the fear that has suddenly surging. Many of them went to the doctor after visiting the Devil's Lake zone. Because of this, in 2005, local authorities ordered to remove a road sign with information about the presence of a nearby reservoir in order not to draw undue attention to this natural object.

Sasha Mitrahovich 28.02.2016 10:23

In the area of ​​the village of Gerasimovka in the Taldykurgan region of Kazakhstan, there is a small (100 meters long and 60 wide) dead lake.

For unknown reasons, even on a hot summer day, the lake does not dry up, and the water in it remains icy. Algae do not grow in the reservoir, there are no fish, there are no aquatic insects, there are no mosquitoes and flies on the shore.

It is impossible to stay in the water of the Dead Lake for a long time. A diver, even with a full tank of air, can withstand a dive for no more than three minutes, after which, for some unknown reason, he begins to suffocate and is forced to urgently rise to the surface.

Every year people drown in the Dead - mostly visitors who do not listen to the advice of local residents or simply do not know anything about the mysterious properties of the lake. What is surprising: drowned people do not float to the surface after a few days, as is usually the case, but stand vertically at the bottom, like candles.

In addition, incredible events happen every now and then near the Dead Lake: people disappear, and later they are found. At the same time, they find themselves in unexpected places, sometimes quite far from the lake or their home. Some can't even remember their own name.

There is an assumption that there is a crevice at the bottom of the lake, from which a toxic gas is released, which is a poison to all living things. But no scientific studies of the reservoir have yet been carried out.

Sasha Mitrahovich 28.02.2016 10:25

In the Kirov region of Russia, near the city of Urzhum, there is Lake Shaitan, having the shape of a regular oval, with an area of ​​​​about two hectares. From time to time, the water in this lake seethes, and fountains from four to ten meters high are thrown to the surface. According to local beliefs, these are the tricks of an evil spirit living in the lake.

Scientific studies explain the appearance of such fountains by the fact that the lake is of karst origin and is distinguished by siphon water circulation. Under its bottom there is a second aquifer containing pressure artesian waters. Between these two horizons there is a connection through vertical karst wells (ponors). Settling silt and peat create plugs in the ponds, and the pressure of artesian waters pushes them out, resulting in a fountain outburst of water.

The second unique feature of the lake is small floating islands overgrown with shrubs and small trees. Such islands are formed by water ejections and are detached sections of wetlands. The largest of them can withstand the weight of three or four people. In normal times, up to twenty of them can be counted on the surface of the lake.

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Another lake with the same name - Satan- located in the Muromtsevsky district Omsk region near the village of Okunevo. Its water is famous for its healing properties, even curing some forms of cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. Placed in an ordinary container, it can stand for years, while retaining a fresh taste and smell.

Experts do not exclude that Lake Shaitan, as well as five other lakes near it, appeared as a result of the fall of a huge meteorite. Hidden deep in the bowels of the earth, it still radiates colossal energy. Numerous anomalous phenomena occurring in these places speak in favor of the cosmic origin of Lake Shaitan, in particular, the regular occurrence of luminous balls and rectangles above the surface of the water.

There is a popular legend among the locals that the temple of the Indian deity Hanuman, Satra, is hidden at the bottom of the lake. According to the legend described in the epic Ramayana, the giant Hanuman, the king of monkeys, helped Rama fight the forces of evil and for this he received the Siberian expanses as a gift, where he erected his city - Aku-Nego. It is he who is now deep under water, hidden from the eyes of people by a layer of silt and sand.

The legend about the Hindu temple at the bottom of the lake is closely connected with another legend - about a cosmic crystal. It is believed that this relic, given to people by alien beings, was the main shrine of the Satra temple and is still in it. According to legend, the crystal stores complete information about the entire history of earthly civilization and contains a clue to the salvation of mankind.

Another feature anomalous zone- Huge, almost meter-long footprints of unknown creatures have been found more than once near the lake. There are even written testimonies of eyewitnesses who saw the huge inhabitants of the lake with their own eyes.

The lake is famous for the fact that people, trying to get to it, often stray, their compasses and navigation devices fail. There is a documented case when a group of pilgrims went to Lake Shaitan, strictly checking the compass. The journey was supposed to take no more than an hour. After three hours of travel, the pilgrims became worried. In the end, after seven hours, not seeing any signs of the lake, they decided to return, went back the same way - and after 20 minutes they were in the place where they started their journey.

Sasha Mitrahovich 28.02.2016 10:34