In 1954 a geologist supposedly saw a “strange creature” in the lake. At this time I have no other information.
In 1964, an expedition led by G. Rukosuyer arrived at the lake, searching for the alleged monster. A biologist and staff member of the Yakut Branch of the
In the early 1960’s several people saw a monster with a long neck come up out of the lake. It was also making a eerie sound.
Another person who saw it claimed the creature was lizard-like.
Some reindeer owners claimed they saw the monster’s long neck bolt out of the water, trying to catch a nearby fowl.
In 1964 a group of hunters saw a deer swimming in the water with a dog in close pursuit. Suddenly out of mist a giant dinosaur-like monster appeared and the deer and dog disappeared into the waters.
In the summer of 1976, a geological professor, A. Petjerskjj saw a monster some twenty to thirty feet away. He wrote “Blurred zigzag contours rose from the water and an enormous tail of at least 15 meters whipped the surface.” He also saw it’s six foot head.
Russian geologist, V. A. Tverdokhlebov and Boris Bashkatov were with a group doing geological studies near the lake in July of 1953. While visiting the lake he and his colleague saw barrel-sized hump moving across the lake. When it got closer, a head and appeared and more details of the hump. It’s head was around six feet wide and the body thirty-forty feet long. On it’s hump was a large fin, similar to that which naturalists saw off the coast of
In the 1960’s several geologists were said to have seen a monster with a large fin on it’s back and gray in color.