The Loch Ness Monster, one of the most famous sea monsters in sea monster history, is a gentle giant. Nessie, it seems, just wants to be left alone to spend out his or her days in Loch Ness, doing whatever it is giant lake monsters do when they’re not appearing in grainy photographs and scaring the haggis out of the Scots. Meanwhile, the Russian version of Nessie, a sea monster in Lake Chany in the Russian province of Novosibirsk, has a different mission: she just wants to eat fishermen, and the fishermen are tired of it.
Over the last 3 years, some 19 fishermen have drowned in the massive lake, which is 57 miles long and 55 miles wide; however, very few bodies have been discovered. When you combine that with stories like Vladimir Golishev’s near-death encounter with the Lake Chany monster, and you’ve got yourself a monster masticating on hapless Russians. Much like in the UK, authorities aren’t taking the monster seriously, no matter how many people she eats.
“I was with my friend… some 300 yards from the shore,” said 60-year-old Golishev in an interview in the Daily Mail. “He hooked something huge on his bait, and he stood up in the boat to reel it in. But it pulled with such force that he overturned the boat. I was in shock – I had never seen anything like it in my life. I pulled off my clothes and swam for the shore, not daring hope I would make it. He didn’t make it – and they have found no remains.”
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