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Johnny Rotten · 05-28-2005, 11:57 AM

It sounds like it got channeled through a sinkhole and into a river--overnight:

"Fyodor Dobryakov was the first to see it — or not see it, as it were. The 74-year-old headed down to the lake early one morning two weeks ago, expecting to see the first fish emerging after the spring melt. Instead, all he saw was a narrow crust of ice clinging to the shore. Everything else was gone, or almost gone.

"The ice was just hanging over an empty lake. I heard a noise, and when I looked right, I saw there was an abyss, and the water was rushing into the abyss like mad. The trees were falling into the lake and getting sucked in too," Dobryakov said at his home in this small village of pensioners, about 240 miles east of Moscow near the Oka River.

Within minutes, all that was left of the 48-foot-deep lake was a silent expanse of mud a quarter of a mile wide. Small fish were flapping their death throes near the small, deep pool into which the water had disappeared."

But that's not the whole story of the lake, which apparently has had a history of strangeness:

"Residents of the few dozen cottages here say there have always been odd stories about White Lake. Bats lived in caves there, and then one day many years ago the bats — and the caves — were gone. Over the years, said Valentina Smyotova, 74, laundry would disappear.

"Women would go there to wash clothes, and sometimes a shirt would swim away from a woman, and then it would be recovered in the river," she said.

Likewise, a church was said to have stood on White Lake's edge in the early part of the 20th century, and the church crumbled into the lake, much as a church did beside a neighboring lake at the town of Dyedovo, added Valentina Dobryakova, 79."

What a strange location! The thing about the bats is especially interesting. It looks like there's still a lot of things we don't understand about geology, and I find this reminiscent of Bermuda Triangle oddities.

Mondak · 05-28-2005, 01:25 PM

Definitly pretty cool. I would love to see more stuff about this.

irateplatypus · 05-28-2005, 01:42 PM

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...3468&sec=world

Quote:

Missing Russian lake baffles villagers

MOSCOW: A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.

NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.

“It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival.

“The trees flew downwards, under the ground,” said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.

Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system but some villagers had more sinister explanations.

“I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us,” said one old woman as she sat on the ground outside her house. – Reuters

i don't know why the quote in boldface type is so funny to me... but i got a big chuckle out of it.

dlish · 05-28-2005, 05:35 PM

has anyone actually seen a picture of this lake disappear? sounds little far fetched to me thats all. do we have a before and after pictures?

muckluck · 05-29-2005, 10:40 AM

I remember watching this show on TLC or Discovery, and it had something similar like this happen. It was some kind of sink hole like thing at the bottom of a lake that sucked all the water down in it, and some of the trees and houses around the shore. I believed it happened in America somewhere? Maybe it was a dream? It had to be at least a year since I've seen that show.

-- edit --

Lake Jackson in Florida disappeared through a sinkhole

Ragbags · 06-12-2005, 06:14 AM

There's a lake in NSW, Australia which disappears occasionally. Lake George (exciting name, I know) doesn't disappear as spectacularly as the one in the story - it takes years. Too long to watch anyway.

I've seen it in both conditions: wet and dry (pretty much). When it's dry they graze sheep there. There are all sorts of stories about people disappearing on boats out there.

Here's a link:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/...?oneclick=true

Quote:

"...It does seem to be connected to another water system, he says, but only on the other side of the mountain rather than the world...."

... hmmm, a connection? ;p

Zeraph · 06-12-2005, 03:48 PM

Wow would have been sweet to see that happen. Wonder if any people are missing...

This is very possible though, I'm no geologist, but sink holes do exist. Usually has to do with lots of limestone dissolving and then the earth above it collapses making a huge hole. Maybe there was a cave system there as well for the water to drain into. Would have been creepy as heck to have been swimming there and then notice you and the water line are stinking.

kurtisj · 06-14-2005, 08:23 PM

thats weird that it would just disappear over night, even if it did drain into an underground cave system or something you think it would take quite some time for that much water to drain.

05-28-2005, 11:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Johnny Rotten lost and found Location: Berkeley	A lake in Russia disappears It sounds like it got channeled through a sinkhole and into a river--overnight: "Fyodor Dobryakov was the first to see it — or not see it, as it were. The 74-year-old headed down to the lake early one morning two weeks ago, expecting to see the first fish emerging after the spring melt. Instead, all he saw was a narrow crust of ice clinging to the shore. Everything else was gone, or almost gone. "The ice was just hanging over an empty lake. I heard a noise, and when I looked right, I saw there was an abyss, and the water was rushing into the abyss like mad. The trees were falling into the lake and getting sucked in too," Dobryakov said at his home in this small village of pensioners, about 240 miles east of Moscow near the Oka River. Within minutes, all that was left of the 48-foot-deep lake was a silent expanse of mud a quarter of a mile wide. Small fish were flapping their death throes near the small, deep pool into which the water had disappeared." But that's not the whole story of the lake, which apparently has had a history of strangeness: "Residents of the few dozen cottages here say there have always been odd stories about White Lake. Bats lived in caves there, and then one day many years ago the bats — and the caves — were gone. Over the years, said Valentina Smyotova, 74, laundry would disappear. "Women would go there to wash clothes, and sometimes a shirt would swim away from a woman, and then it would be recovered in the river," she said. Likewise, a church was said to have stood on White Lake's edge in the early part of the 20th century, and the church crumbled into the lake, much as a church did beside a neighboring lake at the town of Dyedovo, added Valentina Dobryakova, 79." What a strange location! The thing about the bats is especially interesting. It looks like there's still a lot of things we don't understand about geology, and I find this reminiscent of Bermuda Triangle oddities. __________________ "The idea that money doesn't buy you happiness is a lie put about by the rich, to stop the poor from killing them." -- Michael Caine

05-28-2005, 01:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mondak Industrialist Location: Southern California	Definitly pretty cool. I would love to see more stuff about this. __________________ All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed Second, it is violently opposed and Third, it is accepted as self-evident. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860)

05-28-2005, 05:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
dlish Currently sour but formerly Dlishs Super Moderator Location: Australia/UAE	has anyone actually seen a picture of this lake disappear? sounds little far fetched to me thats all. do we have a before and after pictures? __________________ An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay? - Filthy

05-29-2005, 10:40 AM	#5 (permalink)
muckluck Psycho	I remember watching this show on TLC or Discovery, and it had something similar like this happen. It was some kind of sink hole like thing at the bottom of a lake that sucked all the water down in it, and some of the trees and houses around the shore. I believed it happened in America somewhere? Maybe it was a dream? It had to be at least a year since I've seen that show. -- edit -- Lake Jackson in Florida disappeared through a sinkhole Last edited by muckluck; 05-29-2005 at 10:45 AM..

06-14-2005, 08:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
kurtisj Insane Location: The Wick	thats weird that it would just disappear over night, even if it did drain into an underground cave system or something you think it would take quite some time for that much water to drain. __________________ Marvin the Mountie Always Gets His Kurtisj.

06-12-2005, 03:48 PM	#7 (permalink)
Zeraph Banned Location: The Cosmos	Wow would have been sweet to see that happen. Wonder if any people are missing... This is very possible though, I'm no geologist, but sink holes do exist. Usually has to do with lots of limestone dissolving and then the earth above it collapses making a huge hole. Maybe there was a cave system there as well for the water to drain into. Would have been creepy as heck to have been swimming there and then notice you and the water line are stinking.