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You probably had no idea that the Russians have their own version of the Loch Ness monster.

They call it the Labynkyr Devil and it is believed to live in the Siberian lake Labynkyr.

According to losapos.com, just like Nessie, the Siberian monster was photographed from a long distance and there were local rumors and myths about Nesski for a long time. But there is more.

Recently, scientific reports based on measurements with scanners speak of a ‘thing’ of 10 meters long. These measurements were performed by respected Russian scientists. Will Nesski equally lure curious tourists to Siberia as Nessie to the Scottish Highlands?

Paying a visit to this new tourist attraction is an adventure on its own. Lake Labynkyr is a remote lake in the far North-East region of Siberia. It’s not far from Omymyakon, the coldest inhabited settlement on the planet. Astonishingly, the 80m deep lake does not freeze over completely in winter, in contrast to all other lakes in the region.

The ice that does form can be too thin to walk on. It is not uncommon to drive cars on lakes in Yakutia in winter: but not on Lake Labynkyr. One theory is that Labynkyr is warmed slightly from below by a fissure in the Earth’s crust.

The legend of the monster lives for many centuries among the natives: the Evenk and Yakut know of many appearances of Nesski. In the nineteenth century it was known as “The Devil”. A testimony from that time talks about a monster with huge jaws.

More recently, fishermen said that during quiet weather when there were no disturbances in the lake, some strange waves were coming from under the water, heavily shaking their boats. As if a big body was moving under water and producing waves which reached the surface and shook the vessel.

Two others were fishing in the middle of the lake in a 10 meter long boat when suddenly the bow began to rise as if somebody was pushing it from under the water. The fishermen were stuck by fear but did not see anything.

The legend, and the many sightings also made scientists curious the past decades. A team of Professor Emeliyanova of the University of Moscow dropped down to Lake Labynkyr and came to startling findings.

Using sonar scanners, they detected huge underwater objects. Readings told it was clearly a moving object and too big to be a fish. It was very homogeneous and swam just above the bottom of the lake. The researchers could not explain what it really was.

Another witness tells of a group of Russian geologists on a boat trip on the lake who saw a huge creature looming up out of the water. Even people on the shore saw the monster and called loudly to scare it away from the boat.

In 1953 the respected Soviet geologist Viktor Tverdokhlebov also discovered a monster on the neighboring Lake Vorota, but the Soviet authorities covered up the investigation. Now Professor Emeliyanova wants to investigate this phenomenon to the bottom. There is a theory that the two lakes are connected by tunnels.