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Russian villagers baffled by missing lake

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.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hollow Earth!!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

some sort of "natural" underground disturbance is what they want us to think. its very clearly the work of the giant moles which have been awakened from their slumber in the depths of the earth. they woke up thirsty, as giant moles will.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Giant AMERICAN moles.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Must have been the same gang that got Bingo's elbow.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Call the Fantastic Four!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the sun passed very close in the night, and dried it up. The fish should be well-cooked.

― andy --, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/08/89/16/image_1316898.jpg

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

And Gear! brings the pwnage.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Russia? It must be flouridation.

Back in 1999 a large lake here (big enough to go sailing in on a sixteen-foot boat or to jetski on) got sucked down a sinkhole and it hasn't really returned since.

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

'Dark mystery'
From the BBC:

"But more supernatural explanations were circulating among the villagers, including the influence of dark forces.
Village youngsters said the lake had appeared during the reign of the feared Tsar Ivan the Terrible and had been "shrouded in dark mystery" ever since.
"We used to go swimming there, but we were rather afraid of its depth, and there were various rumours. For instance people said there used to be a church there underwater," one girl told the TV.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

At least now they know whether it's deep and church-filled or not.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

To answer the original charge, perhaps the real-life personage David Bowie's Man Who Fell To Earth character was based on finally got his act together and made it back to his home planet.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Man Who Fell To Earth was actually a lake?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

He was thirsty.

― Roz (Roz), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

He was at that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I should have added "successfully completing his mission." Does that help? No, I don't think so.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe his ship was made entirely out of Russian water?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Those aliens from Signs hated water. They're giving it a second shot.

― Roz (Roz), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/560320%3fformat=html

looks to me like the lake is still there.

also, “I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us,” is the funniest news quote ever!

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I know! Democracy isn't that dry!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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