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 is good enough for cars to drive through, and on the left, it is 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.

100 great records of the elements [with illustrations] Nepomniachtchi Nikolai Nikolaevich

The most mysterious lakes

The most mysterious lakes

Oddly enough, but in the folklore of the peoples of the world there is almost no mention of enchanted, enchanted or sacred streams and rivers, with the exception of the Jordan and the Ganges. But there are so many legends about mysterious and creepy, dangerous and frankly evil lakes and ponds in oral folk art that you can’t count them.

THE MAGIC WORLD OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

Belief in the existence of enchanted lakes and ponds has long been a subject of study for folklorists. However, there is no doubt that the well-known fact that there are indeed enough reservoirs in the world that have some incomprehensible natural properties and, thanks to them, become the focus or source of paranormal activity. UFOs are allegedly often observed in and around some lakes, outlandish creatures are found in others, and still others are considered strange for no particular real or imagined reason.

Several of these strange lakes lurk in the mysterious and almost impassable Andes. Not everyone knows that this majestic mountain range has a younger brother, a much more modest and nondescript range called the Cordillera Azur (Blue Mountains). It stretches parallel to the Andes and is replete with cold reservoirs - lakes and lagoons, around which mainly live South American Indians who speak the Quechua language. These places are so beautiful that from time immemorial painters have come here for inspiration, and now photographers have joined them, although the Cordillera Azur is still one of the most inaccessible mountainous countries on the planet.

There, at an almost transcendental height, in the wilderness and deserted, lies the "strange" Lake Gaipo. According to rumors, several years ago it was firmly chosen by a wide variety of UFOs. Several researchers who ventured into this godforsaken place, found that the rumors were confirmed. Local Indians said that paranormal phenomena are observed here regularly, but they are brightest at six in the morning and from three to four in the afternoon. At this time of the day, the Indians repeatedly saw some luminous objects falling into the lake or, conversely, taking off from the water. The shape of these unknown luminous objects is striking in its variety: balls, ovals, rectangles, rings. They freely penetrate the surface of the water, hang and slowly move a few centimeters from it, and then either rush into the sky with lightning speed, or sedately and leisurely creep up along the slopes of the mountains framing Gaipo. And since in the horizons of local residents there is no place for such a concept as interplanetary, or even more interstellar contacts, the Indians consider the observed phenomena to be the machinations of witches and sorcerers.

However, this kind of strange phenomena are observed not only in deaf and hard-to-reach places. The attention of researchers is attracted, for example, by the Al Chichika lagoon, located near the city of Veracruz (Mexico). It is small - just over three kilometers across, but amazingly deep - more than six hundred meters. This reservoir was reputed to be enchanted long before the appearance of European conquerors on its shores and gave shelter to the Mexican variety of water elves, known as "chaneque", and other evil spirits.

The researchers who visited those places noted various anomalies already on the approaches to the lagoon. Batteries ran low in electrical appliances, videotape became unusable, radio signals stopped in the LW, MW, HF and VHF bands. All this made it possible to put forward a hypothesis about some electromagnetic disturbances created by unknown sources located in the lagoon or close to it.

In 1998, biologist Arturo del Moral decided to thoroughly investigate the reservoir and faced the same obstacles as his predecessors. Moreover, the members of the Moral expedition heard strange sounds emitted at night by the water column, and they had the impression that something was floating there.

Moral managed to speak with one of the inhabitants of the nearby town of Pueblo del Seco, and he said that in March 1996, at about ten o'clock in the evening, he saw a dazzling yellow glow emanating from the water. Not caring in the least about his own safety, the fearless city dweller ran to the very edge of the water and, to his surprise, saw “something huge and luminous. This thing emerged from the water, hovered a meter or two above the lagoon, and then flew off into the night sky.

Other locals told Moral that the light phenomena in the lagoon have a periodicity: in the spring they are observed more often, especially at night. Moral even managed to capture these phenomena on film. They are very beautiful: luminous clusters hang over the surface of the lagoon near the coast and emit white or red flashes. This spectacle is breathtaking. No wonder the pioneer of Ufology, Maurice Jessup, was very fond of visiting the shores of the Al-Chichika lagoon. He even called it the Perste crater, struck by the similarity of the lagoon to the craters on the Moon and the strange similarity of the terrain to the lunar surface.

In one of his books, Jessup described in detail the "transient light phenomena" observed in some lunar craters (for example, in Plato's crater; on a full moon they can be seen through ordinary binoculars). Probably, the scientist believed that the lights in the lunar craters could be explained by more deeply studying the light phenomena in the craters of the earth.

KILLER LAKES

In October 1994, Americans were shocked by the news of a terrible crime. Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, North Carolina, deliberately let her car roll off the boat dock into John D. Long Lake. Strapped into the back seat, Susan's sons drowned. Their mother received a life sentence for murder. Nearly two years later, another car crashed into the same lake from the same pier, containing three adults and four children. At the same time, the car spontaneously swept between the monuments to Michael and Alex Smith, Susan's young sons. The scene was like a scene from a horror movie. All seven passengers of the jeep drowned, one of the eyewitnesses tried to save them, but choked and also died. The investigation found that the car was on the handbrake.

According to the local residents, the misfortunes occurred for one single reason: Lake John D. Long is enchanted. Of course, the judicial authorities do not take such explanations seriously and are not going to reconsider the case of Susan Smith. But lakes in which people die under mysterious circumstances do exist, and a very lengthy section of "magical" folklore and literature about the supernatural is devoted to them.

One of the most infamous killer lakes is called Whitney. It is located north of the town of Waco in the US state of Texas and seems to outnumber Lake John D. Long. For many years now, all sorts of cars have been rolling down the wharf bridges in Whitney, and the number of drowned people here has been steadily increasing. Police divers found several dozen cars on the muddy bottom of the lake, but never found human remains. Many of the cars lying in the lake simply should not have rolled there: their parking brakes were on, as was the case with Susan Smith's car in North Carolina. Worthy of mention is the fact that during the "parade of aliens" (another massive "invasion" of UFOs observed around the world) in 1974-1975 in Calvert, on the shores of Lake Whitney, two UFOs landed, leaving scorched bald spots on the ground.

The second largest country in the world - Canada - is also rich in dead places and, in particular, lakes, which are very notorious. In June 1966, an elderly couple and their teenage son went fishing on Lake Anion, located in an abandoned quarry thirty-three kilometers north of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Arriving at the place and not finding a single living soul there, the fishermen were delighted at first, but soon they became terrified. Suddenly there was pitch darkness. The frightening silence was only occasionally broken by a strange grinding sound, which, according to one of the few witnesses, was accompanied by "a sharp, suffocating smell of steel being processed with an emery wheel." And then, to the horror of the parents, their fifteen-year-old son suddenly disappeared.

The father and mother called the boy for a long time, but they did not wait for an answer. When the mysterious haze that enveloped the lake in broad daylight dissipated, the parents saw their son, who appeared out of nowhere and, terribly worried, said that he had seen "some kind of round plane." The boy ran to him, but did not remember what happened next. Soon, the memory loss turned into a mental disorder, and the boy was placed in a mental hospital, but he could not be cured.

VELIKOOZERSKIY TRIANGLE

In addition to relatively small lakes, in the waters and surroundings of which all sorts of devilry is going on, there are also huge lakes that look more like seas. All sorts of things happen in them too. The clearest example of this is the American Great Lakes, the giant freshwater reservoirs that separate the Canadian province of Ontario from the United States. A lot has been written about the mysterious phenomena associated with them, and Jay Gurley devoted a separate book to this topic, The Great Lake Triangle.

Many amazing and mysterious events taking place here, according to Gurley, are explained by “the action of some destructive force, so powerful and swift that it destroys mercilessly anyone who dares to penetrate here (although this does not prevent the Great Lakes from being navigable, and navigation there very lively. Note. ed.). And no one has yet offered an explanation for this power and swiftness. Or maybe the power and swiftness of this mysterious force is somehow connected with UFOs?

In March 1998, the Center for the Study of UFOs carefully investigated reports of the appearance of unidentified flying objects near the Perry nuclear power plant on the shores of one of the Great Lakes of Erie. On March 4, an unnamed woman was driving along the coast in Eastlake, Ohio. Suddenly she saw "an object resembling an airship, at both ends of which bright lights were burning." This object made a pretzel in the air, darted back and forth, as befits a classic UFO, and did not show the slightest desire to fly away.

Having reached the house, the woman told her husband about what she saw and persuaded him to go to the nearest beach to look at the marvel. When they arrived on shore, the UFO was still maneuvering over the lake. It was winter. Erie was frozen, but the ice under the UFO cracked and broke. This time, eyewitnesses were able to determine the approximate size of the object. It was "larger than a football field". The observers got the impression that the "airship" was waiting for the return of some small flying objects sent for reconnaissance.

Soon the guess was confirmed: the "airship" landed on the ice-bound surface of the lake and began to take these scouts on board, and then the object disappeared from sight. Perhaps he went through the thickness of the ice and plunged to the bottom, where the UFO base was located. Or maybe the crew was just tired of the idle curiosity of earthly onlookers?

ASPHALT LAKE

The gods punish those who try to break the unwritten laws given from above. So, for example, it happened to the Chaima Indians living on the island of Trinidad, which nestled in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast of South America. Once the Indian village was located on the shores of the crystal clear Peach Lake. Now…

Once the gods of the forest gave the people of the Chaima tribe an unusual bird - a hummingbird. This tiny creature, whose colorful plumage changes its hue depending on the angle of incidence of the sun's rays on it, was, according to the plan of the gods, to decorate the lives of people, soften their hearts and cheer their souls. After all, it was not for nothing that the gods created pichugs beautiful, like revived flowers. In addition, this bird, the size of a fly, was distinguished by amazing courage: with strong blows of its beak, it could knock down a snake crawling to its nest from a tree. Remembering the courage of this tiny creature, protecting his home from enemies, the Indians, if necessary, had to fearlessly engage in battle with the enemy.

However, it so happened that, at the behest of evil spirits, black thoughts were born in the heads of the Chima. Looking at how a tiny bird, hovering over flowers, feasts on nectar, they thought: if this creature drinks the sweet essence of a flower, then what should it taste like? Well, isn't it interesting to have a sacred bird baked in banana leaves for lunch? No sooner said than done. Having caught a lot of birds with a net woven from grass, the Indians tried to arrange a feast. However, nothing came of this - their prey turned out to be too small and fragile, the delicacy turned out to be useless. And the gods, offended by such an attitude towards their gift, decided to punish the Chima. The next morning, after a shameful meal, people saw that the blue waters of their lake had turned into sticky brown mud.

Such is the legend of the Chaima Indians, who to this day live in the vicinity of Peach Lake. This lake, located on the island of Trinidad near the village of La Brea, is filled with ... asphalt! The area of ​​the pit with a semi-liquid black mass, which consists of 40 percent bitumen, 30 percent clay and 30 percent salt water, is 45 hectares. There are even small islands covered with vegetation on the lake. Rainwater accumulates in the recesses between the viscous asphalt waves, and bituminous oils shimmer on it with all the colors of the rainbow, vaguely resembling the plumage of a hummingbird, with which it all allegedly began.

For a hundred years now, hundreds of tons of natural asphalt have been mined here every year, but it does not become less.

The surface of the amazing lake is so hard in places that you can walk on it, but it’s better not to do this, after all, the depth of the bubbling brown-black cauldron is 82 meters, and in which case it will be as difficult for a person to get out of it as a fly that has fallen into jam. True, after some time, the drowned man, dragged to the bottom, will again be on the surface, since the asphalt is in constant slow motion. But, of course, this will not please anyone.

The legend about the origin of Peach Lake does not satisfy scientists, they are still arguing about where it came from. Many believe that the accumulation of natural asphalt was formed in the crater of a dormant volcano. Oil, little by little coming from the bowels of the earth, mixed with volcanic ash and eventually formed an asphalt boiler.

According to another version, the asphalt lake was once at the bottom of the sea, and about 50 million years ago the bodies of small marine animals sank to the bottom, turning into oil there, and then, under the influence of processes in the earth's crust, this oil was displaced to the surface and thickened under the action of sun.

Peach Lake is the largest, but not the only asphalt lake in the world. They are in California, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and other places.

ominous lakes

Probably, many of you have seen names on a geographical map that mention colors: Black, White, Yellow, Red Seas, Belukha Mountain and others. But there are especially many so-called colored lakes on our Earth. And these lakes really have the most different, unusual shades of water: red, crimson, blue-green, blue, yellow, white and even black. Moreover, colorful lakes are scattered all over the globe!

There is, for example, in the Carpathian Mountains near the town of Svalyava, at an altitude of 700 meters above sea level, Lake Sinyak. Sulfur compounds dissolved in it give the water an intense blue color. Many similar lakes are also located in the mountains of the Caucasus, but Gek-Gel Lake (“Blue Lake”), located in Azerbaijan in the Asgun Gorge, at an altitude of 1576 meters, is considered the queen of blue lakes.

Most of all in the world of White Lakes. Only in Russia there are about twenty of them. At first glance, there is nothing unusual in such lakes. But as soon as the wind starts to make waves, the mirror-like water surface is covered with white lambs. Perhaps that's where the name comes from.

But on the island of Kunashir - one of the Kuril Islands - there is a milky-white lake, and ... boiling. It is filled with a solution of sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, hot volcanic gases rise from the bottom of it all the time, which heat the “water” to a boil.

In Western Siberia and Central Asia, there are many lakes with a purple-red color. During sunset, they change their color a little and become like bowls filled with molten gold.

There are truly unique raspberry lakes near Astrakhan, which are named so not only for their color, but also ... for the smell, which is very reminiscent of the smell of ripe raspberries. By the way, the salt extracted from these lakes retains a persistent aroma of raspberries or violets and was once highly valued at the royal court.

Another Raspberry Lake, located in the south of Siberia in the Kulunda steppe, attracts not only with its beauties. In the water of this lake, saturated with magnesium salts and soda, stones are constantly formed and grow (to the delight of the local population, which widely uses this extraordinary building material).

Lakes with red water are also found in the Italian Alps, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in Western Europe, in Bolivia, and Japan.

By the way, there is a unique two-colored lake on the Japanese island of Kyushu. One half of it turned yellow due to sulfur impurities, and the other half became pink due to iron oxides.

Three colored lakes lie in the crater of the Keli Mutu volcano on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Two of them are painted in different shades of green, and the third is black and red. The internal forces of the earth and ... chemistry are to blame for this. The lakes were formed in different craters of the volcano, rich in various minerals. All three lakes have romantic names. Tivoye Ata Polo means "Lake of Enchanted People". Tivoye Noea Moeri Kos Fay is translated as "Lake of young men and girls", the third - Tivoye Ata Mboepoe - "Lake of drowned hopes".

The name Sarykul, which means "yellow lake", is carried by many lakes. The largest of them is located in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia. The water in this lake resembles highly diluted coffee in its color due to the fact that many particles of clay are dissolved in it as a result of constant erosion of the banks.

There are many black lakes on Earth. The color of the water in them is explained not only by the presence of peat. For example, in the "most-most" black lake in the world - Lake Kahinaidaakh, located in Yakutia, the water is a kind of solution of soot, ash and soot. The phenomenon is explained by the fact that this lake is located in a depression where a fire raged several millennia ago (coal burned there for several years). Later, the fire was flooded with water.

But in Algiers, not far from the city of Sidi Bel Abbes, in the picturesque Atlas Mountains, the basin of the lake is filled not with water, but with the most real ... ink. Two rivers flowing into the ink lake carry iron salts and the remains of various vegetation, which, mixing with each other, turn the lake into a huge inkwell.

BRONTIDS, OR SOUNDING LAKES

In the spring of 2002, a group of French researchers on inflatable boats examined one of the southern bays of the African Lake Victoria, where, according to local residents, a large animal unknown to science appeared.

The hydrophones lowered into the water recorded strange loud sounds, as if a giant was beating a giant anvil with a hammer. These sounds arose an hour or two after sunrise and stopped shortly before sunset, sometimes they stopped for a long time and reappeared after five to seven days.

However, the history of this phenomenon dates back several centuries, and the sounding lakes themselves are found on all continents. On the territory of Eurasia, the most famous "talking" lake is Ladoga. Often, fishermen who have gone 2-3 kilometers from the shore hear a mysterious rumble, rolling, like a distant echo of a thunderstorm. When the sky is covered with clouds, these mysterious sounds (brontides) often come across newcomers on the lake - both "motor boats" and yachtsmen, who immediately direct their ships to the shore.

By the way, in various literary sources you can find distorted versions of this term, but it directly goes back to the Italian word "brontidi", meaning sounds that are observed in a number of coastal regions of the Mediterranean.

Much less often on Ladoga, another type of brontides is observed - a long sound, similar to the sound of a broken bass string. It is even rarer to hear two or three such sounds in a row. And some water tourists, who have settled for the night in the numerous skerries of the northwestern part of Ladoga, suddenly wake up from the sound of the wheels of a rapidly approaching train, although, of course, there is no train nearby.

At the beginning of 1890, the American professor S.A. Forbes visited Lake Shoshone in Yellowstone National Park to study invertebrates. In his report, he made the following entry: “In this place, in the early quiet morning, we heard the mysterious sounds for which the lake is famous. They were like the trembling of a harp string, which someone touched at the top of the trees. It was also like the tinkling of telegraph wires, and sometimes like low, melodious voices talking high above us. The sound originated somewhere far away, approaching and getting louder, and then receding and disappearing in another direction. Sometimes it seemed that he wandered aimlessly around us. In each case, the phenomenon lasted from a few seconds to half a minute. Usually these sounds can be heard on a calm, clear morning shortly before sunrise, at this time of day the sounds are louder and clearer. But once I heard them at noon when the breeze was blowing.

Forbes' colleague, Professor Edwin Linton, while working on nearby Yellowstone Lake, heard similar sounds. They seemed to be some kind of metallic vibrations that arose directly above their heads, and then moved to the southwest. On average, this phenomenon was observed for about 30 seconds. Sometimes the sounds resembled the howling of the wind, although there was complete calm all around.

In the same place, explorer Hugh M. Smith in 1919 heard something like the distant hum of a huge bell, repeated at intervals of about ten minutes. It is curious that strange sounds, reminiscent of the sound of an organ, were also observed by Smith during the movement of the canoe in which the members of the expedition were.

In Australia, starting in 1870, Wilga's "weeping waterhole" became famous near Ruthven Station. One day, two sheep shearers spent the night not far from her. However, they did not manage to sleep: in the middle of the night, a quiet cry was suddenly heard, which became louder and louder. Then it was replaced, according to witnesses, by diabolical otherworldly sounds, "which are beyond the power of the human voice." The sounds were growing. It began to seem to the shearers that their eardrums were about to burst, a wild fear literally fettered them, preventing them from leaving the accursed place. Then the howl became quieter and gradually turned into a soft whining. When all was quiet, the shearers mounted their horses and galloped away.

Sounds similar to the Ladoga brontides and reminiscent of distant thunder peals are also observed on the coast of the North Sea, mainly on quiet foggy days. They are known to the locals under the unpronounceable name "mistpoeferra". The same peals in the Ganges delta are called "barisal cannons". A similar phenomenon in the state of New York is consonantly called the "guns of Seneca Lake."

Researcher Albert J. Ingalls writes of enigmatic sounds: "Their direction is indeterminate, and, like the beginning of a rainbow, they are always 'somewhere else'."

In the Connecticut River valley, this phenomenon is called the "roar of Mudus" (after the name of the city), and in Haiti it is called "gouff-free." In the Philippines, locals consider unusual sounds to be the peculiar voice of a distant sea and are sure that they are produced by waves hitting the shore or the walls of grottoes. They also believe that these mysterious sounds are closely related to weather changes and usually herald the arrival of a typhoon.

In 1870, correspondents of the journal Nature undertook an investigation into the so-called "Greytown sounds" that are heard in coastal lakes and on the coast of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Trinidad. These were strange metallic vibrating musical sounds, and with a characteristic rhythm. Two additional, but inconsistent factors were also noted: sounds are more often heard on metal ships, but only at night. And researcher S. Kingsley heard the sounds “that a locomotive rumbles in the distance when it releases steam” (that is, very similar to some Ladoga brontides).

With all the extensive statistics of observations of such a phenomenon over the past two centuries, no acceptable explanation has been found for it, and those who speak out are sometimes simply naive. In geophysics, there is a whole field of science called atmospheric acoustics. There is also the acoustics of the ocean, but, alas, there are no acoustics of the lakes. In one story by an Armenian writer, schoolchildren, together with a teacher, explored the mysterious sounds emitted by an alpine lake and which the locals attributed to the roar of an underwater deity. So, the guys found a hole into which the waters of the lake periodically rushed, making frightening sounds at the same time. This is practically all that I managed to read about the studies of the “voices of the lakes”. By the way, about the same explanation of the "devilish sounds" of Wilg's "water hole" is expressed for the Australian phenomenon.

A more or less acceptable explanation is given to the sounding lakes of Yellowstone National Park. Seismic activity is very high there, geysers periodically operate nearby, connected with lakes, apparently, with a common water layer. When they work, these musical sounds appear, apparently.

Well, as for the Ladoga Brontides, the reader will have to be content with a very mean assumption that, perhaps, they are associated with the peculiarity of the underwater currents and the complex topography of the lake bottom.

BLOOD BAIT

Lake Tovel, located near the Italian city of Trento, may soon become a place of pilgrimage for tourists, since, according to an ancient legend, the water in it can turn into blood.

According to legend, during one of the internecine wars of the gloomy Middle Ages, a large detachment of knights from the fortress of Trezenya was surrounded and defeated by an army from the neighboring city of Tuenno. As the legend says, after a hot fight in the lake "there was more blood than water." Since then, the water in it began to sometimes turn into blood. As a rule, this happened on the eve of another cruel internecine strife. The last time, however, this happened in the dry summer of 1964 and was in no way connected with the war on the peninsula.

Indescribable horror seized the people then. Some in a panic fled headlong away from the lake, others, on the contrary, threw themselves into the water and drowned, others lost their minds from fear ... But the local peasants, embittered by the drought, were not going to drown or go crazy. They almost completely scooped out the ominous lake, using water to water their allotments and "bloody" all the nearby lands. This phenomenon of nature was scientifically substantiated by a botanist from Trento, an associate professor at the universities of Padua and Camerino, Vittorio Marchesoni. He found that the culprit was a unicellular algae containing a high concentration of carotenoids in its plasma. Under certain conditions, it is able to multiply rapidly - up to 4 thousand cells per 1 cubic meter. cm (the water turns red at the same time) and just as rapidly die off, sinking to the bottom and covering it with a thick purple carpet.

For several years, a scientific team led by Alessandro dal Piazza, a leading researcher at the Trent Museum of Natural History, has been trying to determine the most favorable conditions for the reproduction of algae. If scientists still manage to solve this problem and it will be possible to artificially cause the effect of a “bloody” lake, these places will be in for a real invasion of tourists. From the book 100 great records of the elements author Nepomniachtchi Nikolai Nikolaevich

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These mysterious animals The ancient Egyptians believed that certain animals could embody cosmic and divine energies. The twelve animals of the Zodiac represent a closed cycle of energies. The symbolism of the beast is associated with the idea of ​​kingdom, power and blind might.

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Where do the largest and most venomous snakes live? There is a saying: "Fear has big eyes." The same can be said about all the legends that exist about snakes. So, they say that huge snakes live somewhere, up to 20 meters or more. But no one really

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Which of the wonders of the world is the most mysterious? The Egyptian pyramids are the oldest of the seven wonders of the world and the only one that has survived to this day. Scientists also consider them the most mysterious of all miracles and have been trying to unravel many of them for many centuries.

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What lakes are the best? All lakes are not the same. Each of them has its own peculiarity. One is extraordinarily beautiful, another has a lot of fish, and the third is famous for something else. But there are lakes that differ from all others and are, for some reason,

When we hear the word "lake", a picture arises in our imagination - a wonderful place to relax, where you can swim and fish. However, this is not always the case. Some lakes inspire fear and horror. And there are reasons for this.

Lake Empty (Russia)

Its location is the area of ​​Kuznetsk Alatau located in Western Siberia. Lake Pustoye is a fresh and environmentally friendly reservoir of continental origin, because it is completely free of chemicals. Many scientists have repeatedly conducted studies of water from the lake, which have never confirmed the presence of any toxic components in it.

The lake has clean water that is suitable for drinking, and resembles champagne, as it is dominated by completely harmless natural gas bubbles. However, the researchers could not determine the reason why there is no fish in the lake.

There have never been ecological disasters and emergency technical accidents polluting the reservoir in the vicinity of Lake Pustoye. According to the chemical composition, its water does not differ from the nearest reservoirs of the reserve, which are distinguished by an abundance of fish resources. Moreover, the reservoir feeds several fresh, clean reservoirs in the vicinity; the fact that there are fish in them will give a special mystery to what is happening in these dreams.

There were several attempts to launch unpretentious fish species of pike, perch and crucian carp into the reservoir. Each of them ended in failure, the fish died, the aquatic plants rotted. And today there are no grass and birds on the banks of the reservoir, there are no fish or fry in the water, the lake guards its mysteries.

Why are there no fish in the lake?

Samples from the Kuznetsk reservoir were studied by chemists from the USA, Great Britain and Germany. However, none of them could put forward a sensible version explaining the absence of fish in the reservoir. Scientists are not yet able to answer the questions of the inhabitants, what is happening with the Kuznetsk reservoir.

However, scientists repeat attempts to explain the unusual phenomenon of the Empty Lake with enviable frequency. There are many people who want to visit the shores of an unusual lake, tourists come here and stop for the night. Some of them dream of touching the mystery of nature and unraveling it.

Lake of Death (Italy)

Our world is amazing and beautiful, its nature can be admired and enjoyed endlessly. But besides this, there are places on our Earth that sometimes lead us into bewilderment. Among such places is the Lake of Death on the island of Sicily. This lake can be attributed to the number of phenomena and unique natural phenomena. The name itself suggests that this lake is deadly for all living things. Any living organism that gets into this lake will inevitably die.

This lake is the most dangerous on our planet. The lake is absolutely lifeless and there are no living organisms in it. The shores of the lake are deserted and lifeless, nothing grows here. Everything is connected with the fact that any living creature that enters the aquatic environment immediately dies. If a person decides to swim in this lake, then in just a few minutes he will dissolve in the lake.

When information about this place appeared in the scientific world, a scientific expedition was immediately sent there to study this phenomenon. The lake revealed its secrets with great difficulty. The conducted water analyzes showed that the water environment of the lake contains a large amount of concentrated sulfuric acid. Scientists were not immediately able to figure out where sulfuric acid comes from in the lake. Scientists have put forward several hypotheses about this.

The first hypothesis was that there are rocks at the bottom of the lake, which, when eroded by water, are enriched with acid. But further study of the lake showed that there are two springs at the bottom of the lake, which emit concentrated sulfuric acid into the aquatic environment of the lake. This explains why any organic matter dissolves in the lake.

Dead Lake (Kazakhstan)

In Kazakhstan, there is an anomalous lake that attracts the attention of many people. It is located in the Taldykurgan region, the village of Gerasimovka. Its dimensions are not large, only 100x60 meters. They call this reservoir Dead. The fact is that nothing is found in the lake, neither algae nor fish. The water is unusually cold.

The low temperature of the water remains even when the strongest sun is outside. People are constantly drowning there. Scuba divers, for some unknown reason, begin to choke after three minutes of diving. Locals do not advise anyone to go there, and they themselves bypass this anomalous place.

Blue Lake (Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia)

Blue karst abyss in Kabardino-Balkaria. Not a single river or stream flows into this lake, although it loses up to 70 million liters of water every day, but its volume and depth do not change at all. The blue color of the lake is due to the high content of hydrogen sulfide in the water. There are no fish here at all.

The creepiness of this lake is given by the fact that no one has been able to figure out its depth. The fact is that the bottom consists of an extensive system of caves. Researchers have not yet been able to figure out what the lowest point of this karst lake is. It is believed that under Blue Lake is the world's largest system of underwater caves.

Boiling Lake (Dominican Republic)

The name speaks for itself. Located in Dominica, the beautiful Caribbean, this lake is actually the second largest natural hot spring on earth. The water temperature in the boiling lake reaches 90 degrees Celsius and there are hardly any people who want to check the temperature of the source on their own skin. Just look at the photos and it becomes clear that the water is almost boiling here. The temperature cannot be controlled because it is the result of a crack in the bottom of the lake through which red-hot lava erupts.

Lake Powell (USA)

Despite its common name (Horse Shoe), near the town of Mammoth Lakes, Lake Powell is a fearsome killer. The city of Mammoth Lakes was built on top of an active volcano, which is not the best location. However, for many years the lake was considered safe. But about 20 years ago, the trees around the Horseshoe began to dry up and die abruptly.

After ruling out all possible diseases, the scientists determined that the trees were suffocating from excessive levels of carbon dioxide slowly seeping through the ground from underground chambers of cooling magma. In 2006, three hikers took refuge in a cave near a lake and suffocated from carbon dioxide.

Lake Karachay (Russia)

Nestled in Russia's beautiful Ural Mountains, this deep blue lake is one of the most dangerous bodies of water in the world. During a secret government project, for many years, starting in 1951, the lake was used as a dumping ground for radioactive waste.

This place is so toxic that a 5-minute visit can make a person nauseous, and a longer visit of over an hour is guaranteed to be fatal. During a drought in 1961, the wind carried toxic dust that killed 500,000 people - a tragedy comparable to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Definitely one of the most polluted places on earth.

Lake Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

This lake is located on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, with large layers of carbon dioxide at the base of the volcanic rock, as well as 55 billion cubic meters of methane at the bottom. This explosive combination makes Lake Kivu the deadliest of the three exploding lakes in the world. Any earthquake or volcanic activity can pose a lethal threat to the 2 million people living in this region. They can die from both methane explosions and carbon dioxide asphyxiation.

Lake Michigan (Canada)

Of the five Great Lakes on the border between Canada and the United States, Lake Michigan is the deadliest. The warm, inviting lake is a popular holiday destination for numerous tourists, despite its dangerous undercurrents that claim at least a few lives each year.

The shape of Lake Michigan makes it particularly prone to dangerous currents that come on spontaneously and abruptly. The lake becomes more dangerous in autumn, in October and November, when there are sudden and significant changes in water and air temperature. Wave heights can reach several meters.

Mono Lake (USA)

One of the most developed ecosystems in the world, Mono Lake is located in the California county of the same name. This ancient salt lake has no fish, but trillions of bacteria and small algae thrive in its unique waters. Up until 1941, this strikingly beautiful lake was healthy and strong. But Los Angeles intervened, which was just beginning its giant growth spurt. The city drained the tributaries of the lake, which began to dry up.

This scandalous destruction of natural resources continued for almost 50 years and when it was stopped in 1990, Mono Lake had already lost half its volume and its salinity had doubled. Mono has become a toxic alkaline lake overflowing with carbonates, chlorides and sulfates. Los Angeles has decided to correct its mistake, but the restoration project will take decades.

Lake Manun (Cameroon)

Located in the Oku Volcanic Field in Cameroon, Lake Monoun appears to be a completely normal body of water. But its appearance is deceiving, as it is one of the three explosive lakes on earth. In 1984, Monun exploded without warning, releasing a cloud of carbon dioxide and killing 37 people. Twelve of the dead were riding in a truck and stopped to look at the aftermath of the explosion. Just at that moment, lethal gas did its job.

Lake Nyos (Cameroon)

In 1986, Lake Nyos, located just 100 kilometers from Lake Monoun, exploded after a magma eruption and released carbon dioxide, converting the water into carbonic acid. As a result of a powerful landslide, the lake abruptly emitted a giant cloud of carbon dioxide, killing thousands of people and animals in local cities and villages. The tragedy was the first known major suffocation caused by a natural event. The lake continues to pose a threat because its natural wall is fragile and even the slightest earthquake can destroy it.

Natron (Tanzania)

Lake Natron in Tanzania not only kills its inhabitants, but also mummifies their bodies. On the shores of the lake there are mummified flamingos, small birds, bats. The most terrible thing is that the victims freeze in their natural poses with their heads up. It was like they froze for a moment and stayed that way forever. The water in the lake is bright red because of the microorganisms living in it, closer to the shore it is already orange, and in some places it is of a normal color.

Evaporation of the lake scares away large predators, and the absence of natural enemies attracts a huge number of birds and small animals. They live on the banks of the Natron, multiply, and after death they are mummified. A large amount of hydrogen contained in water and increased alkalinity contribute to the release of soda, salt and lime. They do not allow the remains of the inhabitants of the lake to decompose.

The most mysterious and creepy lakes in the world. The lake seems to us as a great place for recreation, where you can swim and go fishing. But not all lakes are like that. Some are truly terrifying. And not in vain. Lake Empty (Russia)

Lake Pustoye is located in Western Siberia in the Kuznetsk Alatau region. Lake Pustoye is a fresh, clean reservoir of continental origin, there are no chemical anomalies in its waters. Repeatedly, many scientists carried out a chemical analysis of water from Lake Empty, but not a single study of toxic substances was found in it. The water of the lake is clean, suitable for drinking, similar to champagne because of the smallest bubbles of absolutely harmless natural gases. Scientists have not been able to conclude why there are no fish in the reservoir. There have never been ecological disasters and emergency technical accidents polluting the reservoir in the vicinity of Lake Pustoye. According to the chemical composition, its water does not differ from the nearest reservoirs of the reserve, which are distinguished by an abundance of fish resources. Moreover, the reservoir feeds several fresh, clean reservoirs in the vicinity; the fact that there are fish in them will give a special mystery to what is happening in these dreams. There were several attempts to launch unpretentious fish species of pike, perch and crucian carp into the reservoir. Each of them ended in failure, the fish died, the aquatic plants rotted. And today there are no grass and birds on the banks of the reservoir, there are no fish or fry in the water, the lake guards its mysteries. Why are there no fish in the lake? Samples from the Kuznetsk reservoir were studied by chemists from the USA, Great Britain and Germany. However, none of them could put forward a sensible version explaining the absence of fish in the reservoir. Scientists are not yet able to answer the questions of the inhabitants, what is happening with the Kuznetsk reservoir. However, scientists repeat attempts to explain the unusual phenomenon of the Empty Lake with enviable frequency. There are many people who want to visit the shores of an unusual lake, tourists come here and stop for the night. Some of them dream of touching the mystery of nature and unraveling it. Lake of Death (Italy)

Our world is amazing and beautiful, its nature can be admired and enjoyed endlessly. But besides this, there are places on our Earth that sometimes lead us into bewilderment. Among such places is the Lake of Death on the island of Sicily. This lake can be attributed to the number of phenomena and unique natural phenomena. The name itself suggests that this lake is deadly for all living things. Any living organism that gets into this lake will inevitably die. This lake is the most dangerous on our planet. The lake is absolutely lifeless and there are no living organisms in it. The shores of the lake are deserted and lifeless, nothing grows here. Everything is connected with the fact that any living creature that enters the aquatic environment immediately dies. If a person decides to swim in this lake, then in just a few minutes he will dissolve in the lake. When information about this place appeared in the scientific world, a scientific expedition was immediately sent there to study this phenomenon. The lake revealed its secrets with great difficulty. The conducted water analyzes showed that the water environment of the lake contains a large amount of concentrated sulfuric acid. Scientists were not immediately able to figure out where sulfuric acid comes from in the lake. Scientists have put forward several hypotheses about this. The first hypothesis was that there are rocks at the bottom of the lake, which, when eroded by water, are enriched with acid. But further study of the lake showed that there are two springs at the bottom of the lake, which emit concentrated sulfuric acid into the aquatic environment of the lake. This explains why any organic matter dissolves in the lake. Dead Lake (Kazakhstan)

In Kazakhstan, there is an anomalous lake that attracts the attention of many people. It is located in the Taldykurgan region, the village of Gerasimovka. Its dimensions are not large, only 100x60 meters. They call this reservoir Dead. The fact is that nothing is found in the lake, neither algae nor fish. The water is unusually cold. The low temperature of the water remains even when the strongest sun is outside. People are constantly drowning there. Scuba divers, for some unknown reason, begin to choke after three minutes of diving. Locals do not advise anyone to go there, and they themselves bypass this anomalous place. Blue Lake (Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia)

Blue karst abyss in Kabardino-Balkaria. Not a single river or stream flows into this lake, although it loses up to 70 million liters of water every day, but its volume and depth do not change at all. The blue color of the lake is due to the high content of hydrogen sulfide in the water. There are no fish here at all. The creepiness of this lake is given by the fact that no one has been able to figure out its depth. The fact is that the bottom consists of an extensive system of caves. Researchers have not yet been able to figure out what the lowest point of this karst lake is. It is believed that under Blue Lake is the world's largest system of underwater caves. Boiling Lake (Dominican Republic)

The name speaks for itself. Located in Dominica, the beautiful Caribbean island, this lake is actually the second largest natural hot spring on earth. The water temperature in the boiling lake reaches 90 degrees Celsius and there are hardly any people who want to check the temperature of the source on their own skin. Just look at the photos and it becomes clear that the water is almost boiling here. The temperature cannot be controlled because it is the result of a crack in the bottom of the lake through which red-hot lava erupts. Lake Powell (USA)

Despite its common name (Horse Shoe), near the town of Mammoth Lakes, Lake Powell is a fearsome killer. The city of Mammoth Lakes was built on top of an active volcano, which is not the best location. However, for many years the lake was considered safe. But about 20 years ago, the trees around the Horseshoe began to dry up and die abruptly. After ruling out all possible diseases, the scientists determined that the trees were suffocating from excessive levels of carbon dioxide slowly seeping through the ground from underground chambers of cooling magma. In 2006, three hikers took refuge in a cave near a lake and suffocated from carbon dioxide. Lake Karachay (Russia)

Nestled in Russia's beautiful Ural Mountains, this deep blue lake is one of the most dangerous bodies of water in the world. During a secret government project, for many years, starting in 1951, the lake was used as a dumping ground for radioactive waste. This place is so toxic that a 5-minute visit can make a person nauseous, and a longer visit of over an hour is guaranteed to be fatal. During a drought in 1961, the wind carried toxic dust that killed 500,000 people - a tragedy comparable to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Definitely one of the most polluted places on earth. Lake Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

This lake is located on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, with large layers of carbon dioxide at the base of the volcanic rock, as well as 55 billion cubic meters of methane at the bottom. This explosive combination makes Lake Kivu the deadliest of the three exploding lakes in the world. Any earthquake or volcanic activity can pose a lethal threat to the 2 million people living in this region. They can die from both methane explosions and carbon dioxide asphyxiation. Lake Michigan (Canada)

Of the five Great Lakes on the border between Canada and the United States, Lake Michigan is the deadliest. The warm, inviting lake is a popular holiday destination for numerous tourists, despite its dangerous undercurrents that claim at least a few lives each year. The shape of Lake Michigan makes it particularly prone to dangerous currents that come on spontaneously and abruptly. The lake becomes more dangerous in autumn, in October and November, when there are sudden and significant changes in water and air temperature. Wave heights can reach several meters. Mono Lake (USA)

One of the most developed ecosystems in the world, Mono Lake is located in the California county of the same name. This ancient salt lake has no fish, but trillions of bacteria and small algae thrive in its unique waters. Up until 1941, this strikingly beautiful lake was healthy and strong. But Los Angeles intervened, which was just beginning its giant growth spurt. The city drained the tributaries of the lake, which began to dry up. This scandalous destruction of natural resources continued for almost 50 years and when it was stopped in 1990, Mono Lake had already lost half its volume and its salinity had doubled. Mono has become a toxic alkaline lake overflowing with carbonates, chlorides and sulfates. Los Angeles has decided to correct its mistake, but the restoration project will take decades. Lake Manun (Cameroon)

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 take a trip to the ten most mysterious lakes in the world, where monsters were seen, the existence of which has not yet been 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 its 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 of the 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.