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This year marks 80 years since the Scottish the press appeared the first black and white photo of Loch Ness monsters. Today, hundreds of articles and dozens of books have been written about Nessie, many documentaries and feature films have been shot. At the same time behind the scenes unfairly left her numerous European “relatives”, including Russian ones. Ladoga pangolin One of the most famous aquatic dinosaurs inhabiting in Russia, is the so-called Ladoga Nessie. About it the phenomenon was repeatedly mentioned by a famous writer and ethnographer Karelia Alexey Popov. In his books he gives a description of a monster, which in the 70s of the last century had a chance to see a resident Mantsinsaari village of Pitkäranta district A.S. Konovalov: “In the summer In 1973, as usual, we hunted fish on Ladoga. Remember was bright sunny day. There was almost no wind. Looking at the smooth the surface of the lake, we saw some object in the distance, located on the surface of the water and shining brightly in the sun. Actually, that’s why we noticed him. At first they thought that some boat rolled over, and even decided to approach it check, but looking closely, they saw that the object is alive! is he slowly sailed along the shore, however, it was clear that he was approaching to us. To be honest, we went down, started the engine and right to the shore, the benefit was not far … The fact that there is a “monster” in the lake, to me even in his time, his father told, and people say that somewhere he was allegedly seen … I didn’t really believe that, but here I suddenly remembered all this … Climbing onto the coastal terrace, we continued observation and made sure that it was some kind of huge animal. It was approaching, and it was already possible to consider those of it parts that protruded from the water. The length of his body was about ten meters; it was massive dark gray color. A large head rested on a long neck. we even noticed the expression on the eyes of this monster; they were wide set apart, and ferocity and anger were felt in them. Short to the shore a few tens of meters, the animal stopped, then vigorously beat in the water, raising a cascade of spray, and dived. More it didn’t appear, although we were at this place for a long time, afraid to enter the lake. “Similar descriptions in the archive of Popov accumulated enough. Some of them are false testimonies emotionally receptive people who sincerely believe that they are personally they saw a legendary creature, but in reality, the monsters took for the body the outlines of snags of a bizarre shape or the play of light in the waters of the lake. The remaining evidence is the stories of local residents in objectivity which there is no doubt, because the reasons for these people simply do not knowingly lie, especially since their grandfathers and great-grandfathers inherited “incredible” stories about Ladoga pangolin. In support of the reality of the Ladoga monster one could also cite local legends and traditions related with the Valaam monastery. In ancient texts often enough an unknown animal of monstrous sizes is mentioned, repeatedly devastating the nets of monks, but never falling into them. Lake myths It is interesting that if you carefully study mythological texts of peoples living on the shores of the northern seas, it turns out that each of them has its own story about scary monster living in a lake or coastal waters. In Iceland there are still legends about a mysterious lake animal nicknamed Scrimsl. 
Photo from open sources in Canada talk about existing with times of the Indians in the huge lake Okanagan Ogopogo. In Ireland with In 1945, a large animal was observed in four lakes, unknown to modern science. Swedish press repeatedly reported on the mysterious inhabitants of six reservoirs of the country … In Kizhi worshiped dragons? Some local historians of the North of Russia put forward a fairly controversial hypothesis. They drew attention to the fact that the domes of churches in Kizhi remind you of their dragon skin, and the unusual architecture of these temple buildings does not fit into any one of the common Christian movements. Rather, the style of these ritual constructions should be attributed to the so-called Celtic Christianity. In Norway and Sweden there are whole areas where all the churches wooden. But Catholics never built wooden temples. These are Gnostic buildings built in honor of a dragon or a snake in the Garden of Eden. Their architecture was significantly different from catholic churches. Also their roofs were covered with material, resembling dragon skin, and the crosses belonged to the Celtic culture. Often, instead of crosses, Norwegian wooden temples decorated snake heads. Dragons in ancient Norwegian jewelry церквей 
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Фото изopen sources In Norway, dozens of such churches built in X-XI centuries. The oldest surviving to this day of constructions is a wooden church built in 1130 in Urnes in Norway. Its walls are decorated not only traditional for Christian motives, but also … images of a creature resembling a snake or dragon. A few kilometers from the temple in Urnes is located more amazing object – a frame wooden church in Borgund. It was built in 1180 and never was restored. But the main feature of this building is that its roof is crowned with the heads of real dragons! Once upon a time similar churches in Norway, there were up to 1,5 thousand, but in today there are only 28 of them left. By the way, according to researchers, the tradition of worship of lizards has also spread throughout England and Russia. Norwegian snake Smoke without fire … It is unlikely that our ancestors would create myths, legends and buildings, dedicated to dragons if they had never seen these creatures firsthand. Perhaps this conclusion was reached by members of the international teams of mythozoologists, who are so far unsuccessfully trying to “detect” Norwegian Nessie – a huge sea snake, according to legend, inhabiting in a lake 160 kilometers from Oslo. At the same time, local residents assure scientists that meetings with the monster occur regularly starting with mid XVIII century. Domes of churches in Kizhi seem to be covered чешуйчатой драконьей шкурой 
Фото изopen sources Also, biologists know for certain that in the sea and the coastal cliffs of Norway are inhabited by huge snakes. It’s believed that they once lived in forests, and then, reaching impressive sizes, moved to the bays and the sea. Today, almost everyone Norway’s largest lake boasts its own legend about huge snake. True, in our time, if these monsters are seen, then only in the fjords, where they rise from the bottom of the sea to the calm. However, in the early Middle Ages they were seen much more often. So, by According to legend, in Bollarvatna there lived a sea serpent the thickness of a calf. There is also a known case when a giant snake crawled onto a stone cliff. According to ancient legends, her eyes were the size of the bottom of a small barrel, and a long mane hung from the neck. Not Having calculated his strength, a reptile got stuck between the stones. Seeing this is a sight, one of the servants of the local bishop began to shoot from a bow in the eye of a snake. After a few arrows hit the target, the snake died, and the earth around it was saturated with green blood. The reptile’s corpse stank so much that the locals burned it, although the skeleton lay on the shore for a long time … Even Walter Scott in the novel “Pirate” described a sea serpent that rises from the depths ocean, stretches to heaven its huge neck, covered with mane, like a war horse, and, reaching the height of the mast, carefully leads with huge sparkling eyes around him in search of prey or the victims. One of the most detailed describes the sea “dragons”, living off the Norwegian coast, Eric Iontopidian in Natural Norwegian history. “In his opinion, such snakes live deep in abyss and only in calm summer weather climb surface to soon sink again … The book cites testimony of Commander de Ferris, given in 1746 before the court. Here what is reported in them: the sea serpent whom de Ferris saw in the vicinity of Moldova, had a head resembling a horse, and held her, lifting about an elbow from the water. Grayish with black a snout, very large black eyes and a long white mane, hanging from the neck in the sea. Seven or eight turns of it were also visible. body very thick. Maybe somewhere in the depths of the Arctic the ocean really lives a whole civilization of lizards, periodically appearing to people’s eyes? It remains only to wait until though if one of them couldn’t be filmed in such a way that one could clearly say: dragons exist! Victor PTICHKIN
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