The Real X-Files - Legendary Lake Monster 'Nesski' Blamed For Several Deaths on Lake Chany (July 2010)(Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia)
It's a cold and wet winter evening so it's time to spin a tale about a monster that reportedly claimed several victims over a matter of years on a remote Russian lake.
Everyone is familiar with the legend of 'Nessie' the Scottish lake monster who has has been spotted in and around Loch Ness. For centuries people have caught glimpses of something strange swimming in the lake's murky water. The Loch Ness Monster occasionally pops up from time to time for a photo op or to appear in someone's vacation video. Good old 'Nessie' may be a tease but she is generally regarded as a very benign monster.
The same can not be said for Nessie's Russian counterpart Nesski who often turns over boats and attacks fisherman on Lake Chany. Apparently Nesski is not the kind of monster that anyone would want to tango with because several people who have ended up being eaten.
During a three year period between 2007 and 2010 a grand total of nineteen people lost their lives on Lake Chaney. Some Russian officials believe that the actual number may actually be higher. Of all the people who reportedly go missing on the lake only a handful of remains have ever been recovered and those bodies were reportedly half eaten by some sort of large predatory animal.
One of the reported victims was a 59-year-old man who was pulled into the lake while fishing. According to the man's close friend, 60-year-old Vladimir Golishev, the unlucky angler hooked 'the big one' and it lead to his demise. 'I was with my friend... some 300 yards from the shore,' Golishev explained. ''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.'Golishev made it back to shore without incident but his long-time friend vanished without a trace.
Such was the case when Vladimir and Nina Doronin lost their 32-year-old grandson three years prior. Mikhail, a Russian soldier, fell into the lake after something large capsized his boat in calm water.
'The lake was calm, but suddenly the boat was rocking, and it capsized,' recalled the elderly grandmother.
Though the couple, who have lived on the shores of Chany their entire lives, firmly believe that Nesski is real and probably caused the death of their grandson they admit that they have never seen the monster.
Nesski, like Nessie, is believed to be a plesiosaur an aquatic dinosaur with a long neck, small head, large body, relatively short tail and flippers, that according to science went extinct, like most dinosaurs, at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
Reports of Nesski in Chany Lake have been around for decades, though finding such a monster wouldn't seem all that difficult. You see the lake is some 57 x 55 miles across but is only 23ft deep at it's deepest point and much shallower in most areas, a fact that should make the monster easy to spot. It also makes you wonder why so many people would disappear in a body of water so shallow?
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