The question of what the depths of the sea are fraught with - whether the descendants of prehistoric monsters are there - has been agitating human minds for millennia. The sea serpent, like the notorious Bigfoot, has been seen everywhere except Antarctica
In the 19th century, this creature was observed both from the shore and from ships, but no material evidence of its existence was found. According to the stories of the sailors, the monster was a huge snake that was capable of attacking the ship and carrying it into the abyss.
In our country, many eyewitnesses came across the Black Sea dragon - a predatory snake-like creature up to 30 meters long, attacking dolphins, sharks and even people. Despite the statements of local scientists that such forms of life can hardly be found in the Black Sea, reports of the "Black Sea Nessie" continue to arrive. Recently, pensioner Fyodor Maksimovich Yukhno saw a monster in the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka, where he rested on a preferential veteran's ticket.
“I went ashore, suddenly I looked,” he said, “some curved thick snags are floating about two hundred meters from the shore… And they swam synchronously: when one went to the left, the other to the right. Just like a snake crawls! Then a fountain of foam rose, and the driftwood disappeared. And above the waves - I would swear I saw it with my own eyes - something that looked like the head of a lizard rose. It was green in color …”
Divers from Gelendzhik also claim that during a training dive to a depth of 100 meters, they saw some unusual creature, similar to a huge silver snake.
Underwater monster roar
The St. Petersburg researcher of anomalous phenomena Igor Fomin has a very unusual specialization: he studies … the voices of the lakes of Russia! The history of this phenomenon goes back several centuries. There are sounding lakes on all continents, but on the territory of Europe one "speaking" is the most famous - Ladoga. Fishermen who have gone 2-3 kilometers from the coast often hear a roar coming from it, reminiscent of the echo of a thunderstorm. Boatmen and yachtsmen often "come across" this mysterious voice, directing ships in his direction and then disappearing without a trace …
With all the extensive statistics of observations of the phenomenon, no acceptable explanation was found for him. Igor Fomin attributes these phenomena to the roar of an underwater monster, descriptions of which can be found in local legends.
Here we come to the main riddle of "monstrous studies": "If monsters exist, why haven't they caught a single one so far?" There is a hypothesis on this score! As you know, to maintain a species, it is necessary that the number of individuals in the population does not fall below a certain value. At the same time, such a large animal needs large spaces for life, which means that only a few dozen of such creatures can live on the entire Earth at the same time. Their lifespan can be hundreds, if not thousands of years, so the total number of monsters is small, and the probability of their accidental detection is negligible.
The horror of the Mexican swamps
Last year in southern Texas, three gold prospectors - Mortimer, Andrew and Sailor - wanted to drive to the village of Baudri-lio along a road paved by the Spaniards and took an Indian boy Pedro with them. At one of the forks, the friends decided to take a shortcut, turning onto a side path. But then the Indian shook all over. “You can't, you can't! There is death! He shouted. When Andrew, in anger, half in jest took aim at him with a gun, the boy rushed headlong into the thickets …
By evening, the travelers left without a guide found a horse skeleton and a half-rotted Mexican saddle in the grass. Then they stumbled upon a building, burned the grass near it and settled down for the night, placing mules by the hedge. In the morning, both animals disappeared …
Andrew and Sailor went in search, while Mortimer stayed behind to prepare breakfast. Following the tracks of the mules, the gold diggers came out into a clearing covered with bright greenery. Here the tracks ended. Not understanding what the matter was, Sailor went ahead and immediately found himself in a swamp of black slime. Suddenly, unusual sounds were heard: someone seemed to be grinding glass bottles with iron jaws. The sailor cautiously walked around the lagoon, parted the branches and was stunned: there lay the lifeless body of Andrew, and next to him was a huge lizard with furry paws and thorns on its back. Sailor, screaming desperately, ran away …
Looking back, he saw the nightmarish monster overtaking him. Gathering the rest of his strength, the unfortunate man began to call for help from Mortimer. But he, standing on the porch of the shack, froze in horror. The dragon leapt at Mortimer and dug into his throat. Sailor, seizing the moment, rushed into the thicket and fled from the cursed place where all his comrades had died. The gold digger wandered through the swamps for two days, until he reached the village. Only here he learned that the surrounding Indians know this place very well and call it "The Swamp of the Giant Dragon".
Is the plesiosaur alive and hungry?
Reports of encounters with monsters continue to come from all over the world. For example, the inhabitants of the village of Campo in Puerto Rico swear that they have got into the habit of a "flying dragon". According to them, he looks like a kangaroo, his back is covered with a shell, his eyes are red and glow in the dark. The monster appears at night, bites off the heads of dogs, pounces on sheep and cows …
Recently historians have established: in the works of the father of history Herodotus describes a typical dragon - dark in color, with a large body, a crest-like mane and a long fleshy tail, wide mouth, dotted with several rows sharp teeth.
At the beginning of our era, the scientists of Alexandria in their writings mentioned the "dragons of the Euxine Pontus", that is, the Black Sea. In the 11th century, the famous scientist Ptolemy wrote about flying monsters tamed in the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia, where monsters guarded incense plantations. In the early Middle Ages, the Black Sea dragon was mentioned more than once in reports sent from fortified Byzantine settlements to Constantinople. Long before the conquest of Crimea by Russian troops, the Don Cossacks went on sea campaigns and saw the monster Kvardamala-Lakvardamak there.
A number of modern experts suggest that if the dragon exists, then it is an unusually surviving plesiosaur. It is likely that he was recorded by modern supersensitive military equipment and there are even his "portraits". But who will let us look into the secret archives?
"Sinegorye" 2009.