Perhaps, few people have not heard about the mystery of the Scottish Loch Ness, about the unknown creature living there, which the locals affectionately called Nessie and which modern scientists (admitting the fact of its existence) consider a distant descendant of once extinct prehistoric lizards.
And here are the new messages. This time from the shores of the Black Sea. It turns out that a legend about a huge monster living in the depths of the sea is spread among the inhabitants of the cities and villages of the southeastern coast of Crimea. This beast has a habit of appearing off the Crimean coast at regular intervals - once every few years. The hour of the last rendezvous came in the past year. It was at this time that new eyewitness accounts date back to the existence of an animal unknown to science in the Black Sea.
It all started in the middle of the 20th century. In 1944, during the liberation of the Crimean city of Feodosia, an interesting manuscript was found in the ruins - the diary of a Red Army soldier who was declared insane for having met Nessie's "double".
Ancient extinct volcano Karadag.
Being sent with a package to Koktebel, the Red Army soldier Stepan Filimonov decided to use the saved time - he was brought up by car - to wander around the ancient extinct volcano Karadag. It was here that Filimonov met a sea monster, which he initially took for a ball of algae.
“Before the lizard, as I mentally christened the creature swimming along the coast, it was two hundred meters. But the day was so clear that the distance did not prevent me from seeing the animal in detail. It was a lump about two meters in volume and over thirty in length.
Slowly writhing a body of many meters, with some kind of incomprehensible grace for such a huge creature, the monster enjoyed the silence of the spring morning. But I did not see the head of the lizard, although the water was so transparent that at a depth of a meter and a half, a white belly, huge as an airship, could be traced.
And so, as if ordered, with a strong splash, the monster coiled springy into a ring, throwing a huge head out of the water."
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A strange creature photographed in the Black Sea.
These lines are dated 1918. But even later, especially in the post-war years, many tourists met with a sea serpent.
Similar statements can be shown to you at the local police station, but psychiatrists are still more interested in them than ichthyologists.
Experts are skeptical about the possibility of a relict creature living in the Black Sea, although they do not deny this in principle. The Black Sea "lizard" prefers to appear in places far from busy sea routes and ports.
It is no coincidence that traces of the monster's presence were found on Karadag, which has been declared a state reserve since 1978.
Last year, the "lizard" again made itself felt. In the summer it was seen by students vacationing in Fox Bay, in the fall the ship crossed its course twice, and some of the passengers managed to photograph the "sea snake".
Konstantin Boyko, student of the St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics:
Karadag snake. Painting by Alexander Bartov.
Vladimir Chernyavsky, research engineer at the optical plant:
Professor Buhlenger, director of the London Aquarium, said: "The sea serpent is most likely a giant reptile that survived the Mesozoic lizard." The same hypothesis is put forward by Professor Burton of the British Museum of Natural History.
Crimean scientists are not yet closely engaged in the search for the lizard, believing that there will be enough environmental problems for them. By the way, about ecology. There is a real danger that the “sea serpent”, which has lived for millions of years in a clean sea, can now perish, poisoned by the waste products of human civilization. And other rare animals will die along with it. We will only have legends …
PS There is still no confirmed evidence of the existence of a prehistoric monster in the Black Sea. It has been noticed that the number of testimonies of "eyewitnesses" sharply increases on the eve of April 1, so it is probably not worth taking them on faith. What do you think, dear readers?