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So the locals call Lake Sobolkho (Sobolka in common people), which is located, as they say, in one of God of forgotten corners of Buryatia (Yervinsky district, near the village Blast furnace), because too often disappear here inexplicable way people and livestock …
There is no official data on the number of missing, but there is tragic stories of residents of the surrounding villages. Perhaps rumors as often happens, are somewhat exaggerated, but the facts indicate that people really disappear on the lake, like cattle wandering here. At the same time find nobody on the bottom fails, and the bottom itself – too … By the way, the word translation “sable” literally means “bottomless.”
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According to eyewitnesses, even good swimmers begin suddenly fall into the depths of the pond, as if someone grabbed them by the leg and pulls. Often the unfortunate do not even have time to call on help, events are developing so fast …
Sobolkho is distinguished by another feature, which is confirmed researchers: in the dark, pink light spreads over the water. The locals believe that in this way the spirits of the drowned warn of the dangers of the living. Or water men play with mermaids, who are also suspected of treachery here, attributing to them death people and animals …
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However, scientists explain this phenomenon by refraction in the atmosphere. light and humidity: the lake water contains luminescent a substance that, reflected in the smallest drops of air, stains it in such a specific way …
The mystical depth of Sobolkho attracts researchers to the reservoir and divers. Most likely, the lake has a bottom, but so far it has not found. In general, scientific research is very dangerous here. By rumored to have diverted a water stream into an underground funnel and then from another such funnel he threw ashore … the Vitim river, which located a few hundred meters from Sobolka. The man survived because he had a supply of oxygen, but his experience shows how way people drown almost without a trace in the lake …
All these mysterious events give scientists rich food for reflection. Many of them believe, for example, that the lake is through and through channels connected to other reservoirs. Sobolkho is essentially a karst failure funnel whose depth several times the diameter of the lake. A regular water exchange between channels and the difference in temperature on the surface and in depth lead to the formation of strong undercurrents in Sobolho. People and animals caught in such a course are practically doomed, their addictive to a depth that, according to some scholars, may exceed three hundred meters.
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However, a diver with a saving supply of oxygen is not the only exception to this rule. So, the locals they say that they came across the lucky ones whom they “spat out” River flowing near Sobolkho. And therefore, rumors of a through lake have long been walking in these places, as usual, overgrown with “mystical details. “From these gloomy touches and sums up an ominous picture called “Lake of Fear” …
By the way, Buryat scientists gather thoroughly every year to explore Sobolkho Lake, as they say, to put everything dots over the “i”, but something apparently interferes with this scientific research. Not Is the mysterious pond itself? ..
