Lake monsters are prolific, there are many, many tales of these aquatic beasts.
They hide in the murky depths of some of the world's deepest inland bodies of water.
Often the only evidence for their existence being folklore and maybe some grainy photos.
There is one case where a little more than a photo was found.
A story of a lake monster, some explosives and large unidentifiable mass!!
Let’s take a look
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Located around 400 kilometers (250 mi) south of Moscow, Lake Brosno is a good sized and
surprisingly deep inland body of water, it has a reputation for being a creepy place
and adding to this feeling is a sunken church at one side, near an island.
The church was only found recently due to the difficulty in conducting underwater archaeological
digs.
This also means that it has so far proved impossible to date the building and anyone
who may have known about the church is now long gone
That’s not the thing hidden in the frigid water some say it hides a bigger secret.
A secret that comes in the form of a mysterious creature lurking in the depths.
The Brosno Dragon.
The story of a fierce aquatic beast hidden in the dark waters has long persited and like
the many legends of river and lake monsters stories have thrived and grown over the many
years people have spoken of the animal.
Like a lot of cryptids, the “Brosno dragon” at first appears to have a wealth of information
proving its existence.
Yet unlike the other tales this cryptid may actually have some physical evidence.
This Russian version of Loch Ness has some ancient roots.
Brosnya is said to date back to the 13th century, stories tell that Batu Khan, the grandson
of the legendary Genghis Khan, had stopped near Lake Brosno, their horse’s thirsty
after a long ride and in need of recuperating drink.
However, the refreshment break was interrupted by the bellowing roars and the accompanying
mania of the appearance of Brosnya, who then proceeded to devour not only the horses but
also the men.
Taking the dragons attack as a bad sign, I dont know of any other way it could be interpreted,
the Tatars decided to flee Novgorod and head home as fast as the remaining horses could
carry them.
Some claim that this tale is nothing more than myth, but stories about a monster in
Lake Brosno abound and persist, essentially making “Brosnya” Russia’s answer to
the many lake monsters reported across the planet.
That being said, by the 19th Century sightings of the cryptid have become less fanciful and
rather than swallowing entire boats, horses and even islands, the Brosno Dragon has been
seen and described surfacing in the evenings but quickly submerges when people attempt
approached it.
Brosnya did return to form, all be it briefly in the 1940’s, this when the lake monster
was said to have swallowed an entire German airplane.
In more recent times back in 2002, a Russian UFO group funded and organized an expedition
to take sonar readings of the lake, something which has been done before when searching
for other lake monsters in different parts of the world, the difference being, in this
Russian investigation those operating the sonar reported a “huge jelly-like mass”
lying just above the lakebed.
In what can only be described in an act that beggars belief, explosives we thrown into
the water and detonated when they reached the mass the proceeding explosion prompting
the mystery gelatinous blob to rapidly rise to the surface.
This blob remained unidentified, with some saying it was thr remains of dead Brosno Dragon
while others say it was nothing more than a mass of decaying bio matter that had amassed
in that part of the lake.
Some say the animal still lives and today, people local to the lake claim that the Brosno
Dragon is still capsizing boats and is the cause of many disappearances of people in
the area.
Periodically the local newspaper Karavan + Ya, publishes reports on the legendary beast
and still searches for an elusive photograph of the cryptid.
so, if someone is fortunate enough to capture the beast of film so to speak what could they
expect to see?
The lake cryptid is described as looking like a dragon from medieval legend, a large scaled
monster that today scientific eyes would mostly liken to a living dinosaur , the idea that
these lake monsters are long surviving dinosaurs has been a long held belief of many.
The problem I have with this is the temperatures, Lake Brosyna is cold I would say too cold
for a reptilian creature to thrive.
That being the said the idea is plausible in other parts of the world.
Most recently tourist claimed to capture the mokele mebe on film a cryptid dinosaur that
it is said inhabits the Congo and I think is definitely out there waiting to be found,
but let’s not stray of track.
If a large unknown animal was living in the lake it could make for a nice ecosystem that
would be capable of supporting a large beast, the lake has a number of species of fish these
include perch, pike, and burbot.
Those that belief in the existence of the Brosno Dragon site this as evidence as there
is more than enough food for such a large creature.
The geographical layout may also hold some answers as to why the beast can hide so effectively.
Fishermen tell that the lake has an underwater structure of several levels.
From time to time, burbots and yellow perch can be found in the lake.
For example, herring can be found in a lake in Peno District in the Tver Region.
Some consider it strange that sea fish may live in the lake at all.
Smelt shoals can be found in Lake Brosno as well.
Over the years that people have researched Brosnya and the many other lake monsters found
around the world, one of the theories for the lack of physical evidence is that these
mysterious animals are actually travelling to lakes from the oceans.
They travel between these inland bodies of water and the oceans using submerged tunnel
and cave systems.
Sometimes the tunnels lead from one lake to another and it is thought that lake monsters
can a can move between the bodies and appear in different lakes at different times.
These tunnels connecting to the sea also means that environment for these beast is not confined
to inland waters they could basically travel the globe and do so without being easily observed.
A good example of this comes from 2018 and the Underwater Exploration Group of the Great
Maya Aquifer Project (GAM) found a connection between two of the most extensive flooded
cavern systems on Earth—Sac Actun and Dos Ojos, both in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula—now
forming the world's largest known flooded cave, with a length of 215 miles.
"This immense cave represents the most important submerged archaeological site in the world,
since it has more than a hundred archaeological contexts, among which is evidence of the first
settlers of America, as well as the extinct fauna and, of course, of the Maya culture,"
says Guillermo de Anda, a National Geographic explorer and director of the GAM.
If this massive cave system can be hidden for so long is it possible that in the depths
of the lakes and lochs that are said to host monsters there could also be networks of tunnels?
Let me know what you think in the comments below