The Lake Baikal Swimmers

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There are countless myths and legends associated with Russia’s sprawling Lake Baikal. These include reports of a mythical monster which resides within its depths, and a hidden fortune in missing treasure. But by far the most intriguing of such tales, is an alleged encounter between the soviet army, and members of a mysterious underwater people. A race which has become known as the Lake Baikal Swimmers.

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[MaxJanowiczSawicki]

Never heard of Lake Baikal Swimmers, but in my home region (Primorskiy Krai Russia) many people heard about a mothman type creature, which lives in the mountains, and was often seen/heard near the Pidan and Oblachnaya mountains. Locals say that it sounds like a screaming woman, it's dark and big, some hunters seen human footprints, but they were huge, at least 2 times larger than the average human's footprints. First reports about this creature were dated back to 1930's and then in mid 80's, 90's and mid 2010s. In fact I went to the Pidan mountain myself once for a hiking trip, and we had one local guide with our group, and he went up and down this mountain for decades quite often, and he said, that he heard this thing yelling, and saw something big and dark flying above the trees in a distance (way bigger than a bird). But I'm a little skeptical about this though, but this mountain really does have a weird vibe to it, like some weird ancient stone structures were found on it, and nobody knows what they were used for and other interesting stuff.

[cfordd]

I CANT GET ENOUGH OF BEDTIME STORIES. There’s not much else on their level

[stonedjasonvoorhees]

For some reason the idea of a giant pike scares me more than an aquatic dinosaur. Maybe it's because I'm from Michigan and have seen some scarily big pikes in very small lakes.

[weekendmom]

Suggested future topics to explore: the dark watchers of the Santa Lucia mountains in California, the Dark Entry Forest/Dudleytown, and the Black Forest, Colorado haunting of 1994. Each one often gets overlooked but is worth a look into.

[lowwastehighmelanin]

Lake Baikal is so unique in terms of its ecology, depth and the inability to get to the bottom and fully explore is so fascinating. Like the ocean we know so little about it! These tales are fascinating. I have a lot of curiosity about it. I'm super curious why it's teeming with life only until a certain point as well. I want to know what causes that

[EilisLornaWalsh]

Epipelagic (Sunlight) Zone — 200 m (656 ft)
Mesopelagic (Twilight) Zone — 200–1, 000 m (656–3, 281 ft)
Bathypelagic (Midnight) Zone — 1, 000–4, 000 m (3, 281–13, 123 ft)
*Lake Baikal — 1, 600 m (5, 249 ft)*
Abyssopelagic Zone (the Abyss) — 4, 000–10, 000 m (13123–32, 808 ft)
Ocean basin — 6, 000 m (19, 685 ft)
Hadalpelagic Zone (the Trenches) — 10, 000–11, 000 m (32, 808–36, 089 ft)

[Bingo_the_Pug]

Encountering giant 10ft underwater entities would have to be a traumatic experience, even the most top-trained soldier would have a nervous breakdown. Charles Hickson once said that when he was abducted, it’s a type of fear that indescribable since it’s from something that isn’t supposed to even exist. Once the aliens put him on the ship, he thought he would never set his feet on Earth again.

[orchidrose]

Lake Baikal has always fascinated me. The oldest, deepest and largest freshwater lake in the world! So old that there are species that are found nowhere else! It even holds the only freshwater seal species! A lake that old has to harbor some secrets!

[이동연-cd]

It’s good to see you back and watching new episode on Sunday afternoon.
And that creature from Baykal Lakes looks like a creature from black lagoon & deep ones from Lovecraft.

[srvfan]

This is one of my favorite channels on youtube. I love the more obscure unexplained stories. Cheers to ya!

[lombardo]

I was just saying I wish some more bedtime stories would come out. hell yeah!

[jennythif]

Okay, so... I'm not from Irkutsk, but I am a Russian biologist, and the real issue of lake Baikal is that its fauna is actually suffers from both mutations and horrible ecological state of the lake and that forces it to change. The paper plant (if I'm correct) and some other stuff on its shores belong to people who don't need to care of its status of a national park because they make the rules. Baikal is shallowing, dying. That's the scary part.

[spencethegreat]

Wow! What timing! I was going down a google rabbit hole of the deepest lakes in the world. Came across Lake Baikal and the ‘swimmers’. In the back of my mind I was wondering if Bedtime Stories covered this. Hopped on YouTube to see this was posted 6 hours ago!

[Dravianpn]

Water stories are some or the best. Lighthouses, ghost ships, etc. All top tier.

[child.pirate]

Just in time for bed 💜 Truly my favourite YouTube channel by a mile. Thank you guys so much for your excellent work, as usual!

[annaspano]

"Fish have been known to develop into unknown sizes"??? Even my dog looked up when he heard that with a "that's not right" expression on his face.

[themirrorsofmymind]

I've never heard of Lake Baikal before. The "Netflix" version of _"Unsolved Mysteries"_ recently told the story of the Lake Michigan UFO sightings in detail, interviewing many of the people who called 911 and the local weather bureau to ask about and/or report it. One officer was interviewed and, probably the most pivotal person who was a witness that day, the weatherman that tracked the UFOs on radar and was astonished by the seemingly ultrasonic movements of the objects. It was pretty spooky stuff.

(While the mysterious, ghostly, otherworldly stuff is always appreciated, I was wondering when there might be another "true crime" episode of _Bedtime Stories?_ I was going to say the last one I remember was the serial-killing couple, Fred & Rosemary West from the UK, but I guess the bizarre case of stalking and subsequent death of Cindy James, which was more recent on this channel, might also count as TC...)

[juandelpueblo]

Swimmers: encounter giant creatures that can breathe underwater

Also swimmers: it would be a good idea to try to catch them. What could go wrong?

Smh

[grunt]

Excellent episode and a great way to top off my Saturday night.

[aidanireton]

The animations in this one really impressed me. Great episode