http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4566355.stm

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"Vanishing lake baffles Russians Residents of a village in central Russia are trying to solve the mystery of a lake that disappeared overnight. Russia's NTV channel showed a huge, muddy basin where the lake once was, in the village of Bolotnikovo. "It looks like somebody has pulled the plug out of a gigantic bath," said the TV's correspondent, next to a deep debris-filled hole. Local officials in Nizhny Novgorod region say the lake was probably sucked into an underground cave. The name of the village - which lies about 250 km (155 miles) east of Moscow - roughly translates as "boggy". No water The discovery was made by local fishermen when they arrived at the lake early in the morning. "I looked and there was no water. I thought: Oh my God, what's going on?" one of them told the TV. Rescuers were called out to search the uncovered lake bed to see if anybody could have been sucked under, but it is thought no-one was on the lake when the waters vanished. "It's very dangerous. If somebody is caught by such a calamity, the chances of survival are practically nil," fireman Dmitry Zaitsev said, pointing out that lakeside trees appeared to have been dragged down with the water. The lake's disappearance may have been caused by subsidence allowing the water to drain into a cave system or underground river, local official Dmitry Klyuev said. According to Mr Klyuev, several houses were swallowed up in similar circumstances 70 years ago. 'Dark mystery' 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. But one elderly villager sitting outside her house had another kind of force in mind. "I thought the Americans had got here," she said, laughing."

Can you imagine if this happened to Lake Jordan?

11/25/2005 5:03:06 PM

would be fucking awesome

11/25/2005 5:04:28 PM

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"I thought the Americans had got here"

Great that this is what we bring into the minds of other people

11/25/2005 5:05:49 PM

Imagine if you were there when it happened... and you filmed it.

You could sell that video for any price you desired!

11/25/2005 5:07:55 PM

this is old as hell

11/25/2005 5:13:54 PM

^^^ You'd be amazed what people in rural areas of the former Soviet Union think about Americans. When I was working in rural Ukraine I was the first American that a man I ran into had ever seen. He was in shock that I really wasn't that much different than he was.

11/25/2005 5:37:48 PM

so what do they think of us Richard?

11/25/2005 6:45:52 PM

^^WTF were you doing in rural Ukraine?

11/25/2005 7:43:47 PM

If I had one wish, that couldn't be for like more wishes or money or anything, it would be for the oceans to be drained. Of course, part of the wish would be that nothing died, but damn, could you imagine what you would find?!?!@#!@?

11/25/2005 7:52:50 PM

[old]ing stories on TWW is so [old]

11/25/2005 8:13:49 PM

^5 you were the guy that did UN elections observing right?

please to tell me more about this program

11/25/2005 9:04:43 PM

^^^^^ The old guy had this notion that we were huge people and the spawn of satan. Apparently the propaganda had really demonized americans.

^^^^ I was in Ukraine a few times last year to observe their presidential elections for the govt. Got deployed to pretty rural areas on each of my trips.

^ Not UN but similar. http://www.pae-react.com is a good place to start. PM me with any questions.

[Edited on November 26, 2005 at 5:50 AM. Reason : 0]

11/26/2005 5:49:32 AM

i wish i was huge and a spawn of satan.

11/26/2005 9:46:31 AM