Crimean sea serpent. Giant underwater snake in Crimea

In addition to the real attractions, southern countries rich and mythical. A worthy place among other characters of legends and tales is occupied by fantastic beasts. The Karadag snake in Crimea is a worthy relative of the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot.

The Legend of the Crimean Serpent

Snakes are common characters in “scary” folklore of different nations. This is due to the real danger of many representatives of this group of reptiles to humans. What is surprising is that they are treated with the greatest respect by residents of those regions where there are really a lot of poisonous reptiles - dragons and snakes in the South and Southeast Asia are considered symbols of wisdom and power.

But there are also many dangerous snakes in folklore. They are the embodiment of the evil principle (in the Bible), multi-headed lizards (Serpent-Gorynych and his relatives) demand human sacrifices and kidnap girls, giant representatives sink ships with their rings. The Karadag monster fits well into this scheme.

Finally, there is evidence of huge terrestrial reptiles in the Crimea. The appearance of the Anastasyevsky monastery in Kachi-Kalyon is associated with them - supposedly the saint held back the attack of the creatures. The Tatars talk about giant monsters who once lived among the Khan - the Khan had to ask the Sultan for Janissaries to deal with them. There is a legend about a 6 m long snake in the vicinity, and E. Abibulaev, who lived in Crimea before the war, even said that his father had such a specimen as something like a pet.

The legend of the snake is not firmly tied to - as we see, its geography is vast. Many stories also concern the Mount Opuk area.

Biological skepticism of specialists

Cryptozoologists exude confidence, but real zoologists only shrug their shoulders when it comes to the mythical snake. They point to glaring facts: none of those who observed the Karadag monster bothered to take a photo of it. The descriptions given by “eyewitnesses” vary so much that it should be assumed that the Black Sea gave shelter not to one monster, but to three dozen species. There’s simply no room for so much.

In data about the snake, its size varies from 3 to 30 m, it can be blackish, gray, brown, greenish, with a head similar to a hare, snake, dog, horse and even a giraffe with horns, with or without a mane. With such an abundance of prehistoric living creatures, there should be hundreds of half-eaten dolphins, but they occur once every ten years. A tooth is simply a remnant of a prehistoric organism unknown to science; hundreds of such “shark teeth” are collected in limestone layers.

Biologists also know for sure: for any species to exist, it must exceed a certain minimum population size (they are different for everyone). And these are not “creatures in pairs”, but much more, otherwise the species is doomed to rapid extinction. And for this reason alone, the Karadag Serpent in Crimea and the Loch Ness Monster cannot exist in principle - not noticing a couple of dozen dinosaurs in busy regions for years is too much.

Screen test of the legend: real video filming

And recently proof has emerged. A certain diver with a flashlight and a video camera was exploring the underwater tunnels under, when something long, large and scary swam right at him.

The Ukrainian media are eagerly rewriting it - as if they are trying to intimidate holidaymakers by publishing headlines like “After this, no one will go to Crimea anymore.” Although people are more curious than scared.

The current hype around the mysterious reptile began when a June video taken from the window of a coastal hotel appeared online. A young tourist, a native of the Moscow region, allegedly noticed how the sea began to foam, after which a huge creature attacked the dolphin and dragged the victim to the bottom. The video is of very poor quality and the plot of the attack can rather be learned from the girl’s words than to notice something specific in the waves, which were really seething for some unknown reason.

The second “appearance on a well-known coastline” happened just the other day. Facebook users share their impressions: “This something came 10–15 meters to the shore. It became clear that this was not a person. Firstly, twice as much, and secondly, the nature of the movement. Then it went to the right. There were fishermen sitting there. We're going to them. Looks like there are lanterns. They shone into the depths, but still the ray of light did not reach.” Then curious vacationers began throwing stones at the “something.” When they hit, “the sound was funny, dull, as if someone was hitting a very large leather ball.”

They immediately remembered a recent story on YouTube, where they posted footage of a sea monster taken from a quadcopter in Veselovskaya Bay. This is not far from the resort Sudak, behind the Karaul-Oba mountain. There is also evidence from last year of the appearance of the creature near the Sudak Cape Meganom. These points are located very close to the Karadag Nature Reserve.

The extinct Kara-Dag volcano is one of the most majestic and at the same time mysterious Crimean spaces. Fantastically beautiful black rocks, hundreds of unexplored underwater caves, sharp jumps in depth, a lot of fish and dolphins. Tourists in the reserve can only appear on two eco-trails: pedestrian and sea. Plus, until recently, the surrounding areas were considered a closed military zone; secret tests of torpedo weapons, etc. were carried out here.

In general, you simply cannot find a better place for a monstrous reptile on the Black Sea. Many sailors over the centuries have witnessed the appearance of the Karadag serpent. The first evidence is an antique ring from the collection of the Bosporan kingdom, where sea ​​monster depicted surrounded by local fish species. The ring was made by jewelers of Panticopean - ancient Kerch in the 4th century BC. Meanwhile, the Hellenes never had a cult of dragons.

The medieval Turks of Feodosia-Kaffa even sent complaints to Istanbul about the “Black Sea relative of the Kraken.” The letters are still kept in the Sultan's archive. In the summer of 1921, a note appeared in the city newspaper of Feodosia about the mysterious sea ​​reptile, with a call to remain calm and not to lose vigilance. Chekists and Red Army soldiers unsuccessfully tried to catch the monster. Maximilian Voloshin, who lived in Crimea, shared an incredible story with Mikhail Bulgakov. It is believed that it was she who inspired the plot of the trash story “Fatal Eggs” for Mikhail Afanasyevich. And this is how I saw it legendary monster Already in the fifties of the last century, the writer Vsevolod Ivanov: “It was up to 30 meters long and as thick as a desk top, if you turn it sideways, and the head - the size of the arm span - resembled a snake.” The writer observed a snake in Carnelian Bay near Koktebel and dedicated his story to this.

Summer 1990, article in the Geological Journal. The director of the Karadag Nature Reserve, Pyotr Semenkov, writes how a team of local fishermen pulled out a net with a dead dolphin, whose belly had been bitten out with one bite. The width of the bite in an arc was about a meter, with clearly visible teeth marks. The dolphin's head seemed to be flattened by uniform compression on all sides, as if they were trying to drag the unfortunate mammal into a narrow hole.

In the spring of the following year, Karadag fishermen brought ashore the body of another dolphin, which was found to have almost identical injuries. The mutilated corpse was kept as evidence of the existence of the Karadag snake, but scientists did not give a clear verdict on who could bite the dolphins like that. Alas, at the end of 1991, the refrigerator compartment broke down and the “material evidence” simply rotted.

They say that under Ukraine on Karadagskaya scientific station conducted a special expedition to search for an unknown reptile. Moreover, the territory of the volcanic massif is home to the most large snakes Crimea. It was possible to find an egg weighing 20 kg. Experts suggested that this was not the only embryo. Research stopped due to lack of funding. The Ukrainian authorities kept Crimean biologists on a starvation diet; there was not enough money even for a meager salary.

We could only console ourselves with photographs taken several years ago: tourists were photographing a school of dolphins - and the Karadag snake was in the frame! Now the Crimean public is divided into two camps. Some are firmly convinced of the existence of an underwater monster, while others completely deny its existence.

If he had been the way he was described, he would not have been able to satisfy his appetites in the Black Sea, says Sergei Ivanov, a professor at the Department of Biology and Zoology at the Crimean Federal University. - In addition, the monster, in principle, is unlikely to be able to survive due to the hydrogen sulfide layer at the bottom of the Black Sea - “dead water”, where there is no oxygen. I don't mind the existence of a legend. But what people saw cannot be any kind of serpent. It could be something else, but in order to find out what exactly, we need facts and real confirmation,” said Professor Ivanov.

Personally, I can say that once, when I was on Opuka, I saw a picture that shook my imagination: I stood on a cliff and saw a sea serpent in the sea! And then the huntsmen explained to me that this is just a school of small fish, sprat, which stretches in length - but from a height it really is perceived as a sea monster. The rangers laughed then, they say, this is how stories about the Karadag monster are born,” the famous Crimean local historian and guide Vyacheslav Khachaturyan told reporters.

Both statements are quite logical. And yet people ask their own equally reasonable questions. For example, why would a creature dive 300 meters into an oxygen-free zone of hydrogen sulfide, when all the fish and its main food, dolphins, walk on the surface of the water? Everything is really in order with the food supply - it’s not for nothing that the most common dolphin breed is the Black and Azov seas called "porpoises".

Similar skepticism can be heard online regarding the quite authoritative remark of local historian Khachaturyan. Perhaps at Cape Opuk he mistook a school of fish for a sea monster. By the way, it’s a stone’s throw from Opuk to Kara-Dag. But why are “snake-like” schools not noticed in Balaklava or western Tarkhankut? Why did such allusions become possible only here, in the east of Crimea?

Meanwhile, the excitement around the Karadag kite is growing. The number of witnesses is increasing every month. Some guests on the coast from Koktebel to Sudak are seriously thinking about changing their vacation spot. For others, on the contrary, the current situation is just a thrill. There are already guides who are recruiting teams of holidaymakers to “go in search of the man-eating snake.” The main feature of the excursion is that each participant signs a paper that they voluntarily go to sea and understand that a voyage to the Kara-Dag caves can cost their lives.

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From ancient times to the present day, the existence in the waters has been repeatedly mentioned. Black sea serpentine dragon. It was especially often seen off the coast of Crimea, where it apparently lives.
The “father of history” talks about an unknown 30-meter monster that lived in the waters of Pontus. Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century. BC
Another Byzantine historian mentions the same monster hunting dolphins - Procopius of Caesarea, who lived in the 6th century. AD

In the Crimean legend "Chershambe" it is told that between the village Otuzy (Shchebetovka) and Koktebel, in the area Yulanchik, in which there is a lot of water and reeds, and which is adjacent to the northern part Kara-Daga, there lived a giant snake with scales, with a dog's head and a horse's mane, who brought a lot of trouble to the inhabitants of the valley.
The Tatar Khan summoned 500 Janissaries from Istanbul, who destroyed the snake, but, as it turned out, accidentally left its cubs alive.

One way or another, but many evidence suggests that snake-like lizard lives in the Black Sea off the Crimean coast, in the area from Cape Megan to the cape Kiik-Atlama and mountain range Kara-Dag.
My good friend Anatoly Tavrichesky - a famous participant in various sea expeditions on autonomous deep-sea vehicles, put together a kind of compilation of all references to the Black Sea “Black Sea”, as it is sometimes called Karadag snake.

Below I will provide his information with my additions, for a more voluminous list:

1. In 1855, officers of the brig Mercury saw a dark gray creature that did not resemble any animal known to them. The snake, whose length was more than twenty meters, made wave-like movements, moved in the direction of Cape Meganom. As soon as the brig approached the monster to shoot it with cannons, it disappeared under the water.

2. The writer-local historian V. Kh. Kondaraki, in his book “Universal Description of Crimea,” reports that in 1828 the Evpatoria police officer filed a report in which he reported that a huge snake had appeared in the district, with “a hare’s head and the likeness of manes." The snake attacked the sheep and sucked their blood. Emperor Nicholas I, having learned about the Black Sea monster, ordered scientists to study this animal. A scientific expedition went to Crimea. An egg was found in the Kara-Dag region that weighed 12 kg. After the egg was cracked, an embryo was found inside, with a crest on its head. The skeleton of a huge tail with a scaly-shell structure was also discovered. This caused scientific debate: could a snake shed its tail like a lizard? With the beginning of the Crimean War, research was curtailed. All unique finds were lost during the looting of Crimean museums by the British.

3. During the First World War, the captain of the Kaiser's submarine, Oberleutnant Günter Prüfner, reported to the command that on a summer night his boat was on the surface off the coast of Crimea. While on the bridge, Prüfner saw a strange huge creature silently cutting through the waves. The officer examined the monster in detail through binoculars. There was an idea to immediately shoot him with a gun, but something stopped the captain, and he, fearing a collision with a huge reptile, ordered an urgent dive.

4. In 1921, an article was published in the Feodosia newspaper that a “huge reptile” appeared in the sea near Kara-Dag, and an unknown creature covered in algae crawled onto the Koktebel beach. A company of Red Army soldiers was sent to capture the snake. When the soldiers arrived in Koktebel, they saw only a trace in the sand from a monster that had crawled into the sea.
Maximilian Voloshin sent a clipping “about the reptile” to Mikhail Bulgakov, who, after reading the article, wrote the story “Fatal Eggs”, based on which a feature film was made in our time.
Then at the Feodosia plant they made a trap cage to catch the “Karadag monster.” Dolphins were placed in such traps as bait.

5. In the thirties, a fisherman from Kuchuk-Lambat (Small Lighthouse) saw a huge unusual monster on the shore among the rocks. He screamed in horror and was paralyzed. When people came running, he only whispered: “head of a dog”... A month later he left this world.

6. In January 1936, off the Crimean coast, a “monster with a horse’s head” was caught in a fishermen’s net. Frightened fishermen hastened to release the Black Sea dragon into the sea.

7. In 1942 during the Great Patriotic War Admiral Doenitz received a report from the captain of the German submarine P-44, Max Hegen, that they had seen a huge Black Sea monster in the daytime.

8. In September 1952, local resident V.K. Zozulya was collecting firewood in the area of ​​Frog Bay. A real monster appeared in front of the frightened woman. The dragon's body was green brown. Similar to snake scales, horny plates were clearly visible on the body, which were located in the upper part of the body. The paws had large claws. The head looks like a snake. Eyes green. The total length of the creature is about eight meters.

9. On May 14, 1952, the writer Vsevolod Ivanov was sitting on the shore of the Carnelian Bay of Kara-Dag. Suddenly, about fifty meters from the shore, he saw something resembling a ball of algae. Suddenly this something began to unfold and lengthen, a huge snake appeared in the water, about thirty meters long, whose head was about one meter in diameter. The lower body was white, upper dark brown. The monster, wriggling in the same way as all swimming snakes, slowly headed towards the playing dolphins, who began to quickly move away into the open sea. After swimming a little, the monster curled up into a ball again, and the current carried it to the left. In the middle of the bay, the snake turned around and raised its head, which looked like a snake. Were not clearly visible big eyes. For about two minutes the snake swam with its head raised, then turned sharply, lowered its head into the water and quickly disappeared behind the rocks of Carnelian Bay. Vsevolod Ivano watched the Black Sea “Blackie” for more than 40 minutes.

10. In the summer of 1952, Doctor of Physical and Chemical Sciences Komovsky G.F., walked from Quiet Bay to Koktebel. In the area of ​​Cape Chameleon he saw in the sea huge snake, which raised its head about three meters from the sea surface and then disappeared under water.

11. In May 1961, local fisherman Nikolai Ivanovich Kondratyev and his guests: the director of the Crimean Primorye sanatorium A. Mozhaisky and the chief accountant V. Vostokov went fishing early in the morning. Having departed by boat from the pier of the Karadag biological station, they turned to the Golden Gate area. Suddenly, 300 meters from the shore, the fishermen saw a brown spot under the water; it was about sixty meters from them. Intrigued, they began to approach it, but the strange object began to move away from them into the sea. When they approached the monster at a distance of 50 meters, they suddenly saw something huge and terrible appear above the water. Three meters from the surface of the water, the head of a huge snake, about a meter in diameter, appeared. The upper part of the head was covered with brown braids that looked like seaweed. The horny plates were clearly visible on the body. The mane was only on the back. Belly light gray. Among the mane, at the top of the head, small eyes sparkled, from the look of which everyone was seized with horror. Mikhail Kondratiev gave full speed, and they began to leave the Black Sea “Black Sea” towards the shore. The monster began to chase them. This race lasted several minutes. “Blackie” stopped 100 meters from the shore, then turned around and swam into the open sea. The boat jumped ashore at high speed, and the fishermen ran towards the biological station. After this unexpected meeting, all local fishermen did not go to sea for several days, fearing that they would meet the Black Sea Serpent again.

12. In 1968, Nikolai Ivanovich again met with a snake already familiar to him. In the summer he was returning from fishing. Approaching the fishing nets near the Karadag biological station on his felucca, he saw under the water, about thirty meters away, a large brown spot. Approaching him at a distance of 15 meters, Kondratyev saw the familiar outlines of a snake. Suddenly the sea foamed, a back with a mane appeared, and in this place a whirlpool formed with a funnel two meters deep, the diameter of which was more than ten meters. The frightened fisherman gave full speed and rushed to the pier.

13. The writer Natalya Lesina told me that she saw a monster in 1967; he was also seen by Lyudmila Segeda, L.P. Pecherikina and many more residents of the villages of Koktebel and Ordzhonikidze.

14. Meteorologist Sergei Andreevich Stetkov, first met the snake in the summer of 1972. It was located near the Levinson-Lessing rock. Among the stones he saw a creature covered with hair similar to a horse's mane. He became very scared and ran away. His next meeting with the snake took place in May 1993. He climbed over the scree and saw the tail of a snake, which disappeared into a cave located between two rocks. On the shore, he found several hairs 25-30 cm long.

15. In 1973, one girl saw a snake crawling ashore in the Kara-Dag region.

16. On August 19, 1990, an artist from Moscow, Alexander Kudryavtsev, was fishing on the pier in the village of Kurortnoye. Suddenly he became very scared, he felt someone's gaze on him. Looking into the night sea, Sasha saw two luminous spots about a meter above the water. Numb, he looked into those eyes for several minutes, then jumped up and ran to the shore. For several nights after this he had terrible dreams.

17. In August 1988, standing on the seashore, T.N. Zilberman, saw a head emerge from the water big snake, black with a dark green tint. Tamara Nikolaevna’s hair stood on end and she screamed in fear. Soon the snake disappeared under the water.

18. On December 7, 1990, a team of fishermen from the Karadag branch of the Inbyum Academy of Sciences, consisting of Tsabanov A.A., Nuikin I.M., Sych M.M. and Gerasimov N.V., went out to sea to check the nets set for catching Black Sea stingrays . In the torn nets raised by the fishermen, there was a dolphin 230 cm long. Having pulled it to the surface, the fishermen discovered that the dolphin’s belly had been bitten out with one bite. The arc width of the bite was about one meter. Along the edge of the arc on the dolphin’s skin, teeth marks were clearly visible, the size of which was about 40 millimeters. The distance between the tops of the bites is about 15-20 millimeters. A total of 18 teeth marks were found. The dolphin's belly was bitten out from the ribs to the spine. The animal's head was severely deformed, as if they had tried to drag it through a narrow hole. Frightened, the fishermen cut off the net containing the dolphin and hastily left the area. In the spring of 1991, fishermen brought back another dolphin with similar teeth marks on its body.
The famous geographer Alexander Yena, who was at the biological station at that time, made a description and sketch of this dolphin. He noted that the snake’s teeth were not triangular in shape like those of a shark, but had rounded ends.

Director of the Karadag branch of InYUM P.G. Semenkov, having carried out all the necessary measurements and descriptions, ordered this dolphin to be put in the refrigerator, but a few days later an accident occurred, the refrigerator defrosted, and the dolphin had to be thrown away. From the teeth marks on the bodies of the animals, one could imagine the size of the monster, the length of which should be about 30 meters. Dolphins with similar bites were also found off the coast of Turkey.

19. In 1984, during one of the dives of the Benthos-300 PLB in the Northwestern part of the Black Sea, our hydronauts at a depth of 80 meters saw an unidentified animal that crossed the course of the PLB and was clearly visible simultaneously from all the windows, and the width of our laboratory 6 meters. The unidentified animal passed along the nose of the PLB and was more than 20 meters long. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to take a good look and photograph it. Our ichthyologists were never able to determine the species and genus of this unknown creature.

20. On August 12, 1992, V.M. Velsky, an employee of the Feodosia executive committee, was swimming in a bay on the eastern shore of Cape Kiik-Atlama. Suddenly, thirty meters away from him, he saw the head of a huge snake. The snake, wriggling, began to move towards him. Frightened, Vladimir Mikhailovich quickly swam to the shore along a ridge of stones and jumped out onto the beach. After 30 seconds, he saw not far from him the head of a monster with water dripping from it. The head was more than 50 cm in diameter, the neck was slightly thinner. Gray horny plates were clearly visible on the head and neck. The snake's eyes were small, its body and skin were dark gray. Velsky watched the monster for several minutes, then ran to the village of Ordzhonikidze. A year before this meeting, in the same place, a young man, a master of sports in swimming, died of a heart attack.
The ranger of the Karadag Nature Reserve, Vladimir Talavin, told me that drowned young people are often found near Kara-Dag, with horror etched on their faces.

21. In the summer of 1992, Muscovite Lyudmila was swimming in the area of ​​the Biostation pier. When she returned back to the shore, she noticed that the people sitting on the shore were looking at her in fear. Suddenly she saw a huge animal swimming towards her. The diameter of the monster's head was about a meter. The mouth was open, and she could clearly see a row of triangular teeth. Lyudmila got scared and quickly swam to the shore. For several days after this meeting she did not go near the sea.

22. In July 1995, huntsman Andrei, his wife Lilya and editor of the President magazine Tatyana Karatsuba and her sister were in a cave at the top of Kara-Dag. At two o'clock in the morning, Lilya, approaching the edge of the cliff, saw something very large and white in the sea below. This unknown creature moved and wriggled. Armed with night vision binoculars, she examined this white spot. What she saw shocked her. She got a good look downstairs white snake, with a black stripe on the back, the width of the body was more than two meters. The length of the kite, which constantly wriggled, was more than 40 meters. Through binoculars, every scale on the body was clearly visible. She called her comrades. Everyone took turns taking binoculars and looking at an unknown creature below that looked like a snake.

23. In April 1995, Tatarintsev A.K., dived scuba divers at Cape Meganom. Suddenly, at a depth of 10 m, he saw a huge dark brown snake swimming under him. Frightened, he began to quickly ascend.

25. In 1994, two employees of the Karadag biological station dived with scuba gear in the Golden Gate area. Suddenly, at a depth of 20 meters, they saw an unknown animal, more than 15 meters long, it looked like a giant fur seal. They observed it for several moments, then it disappeared into the depths of the sea.

26. In May 1999, two guys were fishing at the tip of Cape Chameleon. Suddenly, a hundred meters from the shore they saw giant snake. The head rose at a height of three meters from the surface. The snake quickly swam towards Kara-Dag. Frightened, they fled to Quiet Bay.

27. In the summer of 2006, people sailing on a boat along the Gulf of Feodosia saw a snake chasing a school of dolphins. Three rings and a head covered with armor plates and algae were clearly visible.

28. On August 16, 1999, Mikhail Kuznetsov and his wife were on the seashore near the Kuzmichev stones near Kara-Dag. The sea was completely calm. The moon has risen. Suddenly, 20 meters from the shore, they saw some huge animal with a diameter of up to a meter, which moved its hump and disappeared under the water. Soon they saw that the animal swam towards the Golden Gate. They got scared and quickly went to the Biostation.

29. Two Turkish scuba divers, husband and wife, were diving under water in the Kara-Dag area. A few minutes later, the husband surfaced with decompression failure. With a wild cry, he climbed onto the deck of the yacht and fell. The woman never surfaced. The search was in vain. The man was brought to a pressure chamber in the hospital; he went crazy from the stress he experienced and is now in a psychiatric hospital. He is afraid of the dark and constantly dreams of being a monster.

30. Summer night 2000 Popov Sergey, together with his godfather, took up spearfishing in the Sudak region. Having dived, he saw a huge animal ten meters away from him. Pointing a flashlight at him, Sergei clearly saw armor plates that looked like fish scales. Having emerged to the surface, he called his godfather, and they quickly swam to the shore.

31. In June 2001, Sergei Solkhatsky was swimming in Novosvetskaya Bay, he was engaged in spearfishing. Suddenly he felt an inexplicable fear. Emerging to the surface, he saw a huge snake ten meters away from him. The snake's head was more than one meter in diameter. The eyes were at a distance of 90 centimeters from each other. In the middle of the head and further down the back was a dark brown mane, similar to tangled seaweed. He clearly saw armor plates, ten centimeters in diameter. On the stomach the plates were smaller and lighter.

32. On March 26, 2006, Father Seraphim, from the roof of the St. George Monastery building under construction, saw two huge snakes in the sea below that were hunting dolphins. The length of these monsters was more than 20 meters, the diameter of the body was 1 meter. The color of the kites was dark brown with a greenish tint. The snakes carefully surrounded a school of dolphins at a depth of two meters under water. One kite approached from the sea, the second from the shore. Then they quickly attacked the dolphins. Interestingly, one snake drove the dolphins towards the second snake, which caught the dolphins jumping out of the water, right into its open mouth. Father Seraphim felt horror; either the emotions of dolphins or the impulses of fear that our snakes usually send were transmitted to him.

33. In May 2006, a net was raised on the fishing vessel “Gradus”, in the center of which there was a large hole. Turned out to be online big shark Katran, whose belly was bitten out in one bite.

34. In the summer of 2007, several artists, sitting on the shore near ancient city Kimmerik on Opuka, landscapes were painted. The water was turquoise, and the ship rocks were well lit by the sun and were clearly visible in the sea. Suddenly, about twenty meters from the shore, the head of a large creature appeared. They felt terrified. The snake's head was smooth and resembled a giant seal. The creature looked at them carefully yellow eyes. Then a smooth body more than three meters long appeared. No fins or other body parts were observed. The body was serpentine in shape and glistened in the sun. The creature surfaced several times and went under water. This went on for over a minute. The next day, in the afternoon, at about the same time - about 15 o'clock, the creature appeared again, at the moment when the artists were swimming in the sea. They quickly jumped ashore and watched as this animal swam along the shore several times.

35. A Moscow tourist, swimming in the sea in the Kara-Dag area, saw about 20 meters away a large snake, whose head protruded three meters above the water, and a dolphin was visible in its mouth. The color of the snake was greenish with a blue tint. The man clearly saw large gray eyes. At a distance of five meters from the head, a wide body, blue-brown in color, was visible. The guy quickly swam to the shore. On the shore, he grabbed his camera, but the kite was no longer there, and in that place a whirlpool was visible.

36. August 5, 2008, Ordzhonikidze village. Tourist Alexander and his two friends stood on a hillock and admired the sea. Suddenly, not far from the shore, they noticed a shiny oblong object, 10-12 m long, gray-green in color. After 3 minutes, this creature began to slowly move into the sea and soon disappeared under water.

37. In the fall of 2008, Irina Knyazeva stood on the balcony of the Batiliman recreation center and contemplated the beautiful scenery of Cape Aya. Suddenly she saw some violent movement in the sea in the middle of Laspi Bay: something brown emerged from the water, raising a cloud of splashes. Looking closely, she saw a huge snake chasing a school of dolphins. Ira grabbed her camera and began filming the attack of the snake, which grabbed the dolphin by the head. The creature stayed on the surface of the water for 5-7 minutes, then disappeared under the water along with the dolphin.

38. In the summer of 2008, boat passengers saw a school of dolphins swimming in Feodosia Bay. Suddenly everyone screamed in horror when a huge snake appeared and was chasing the dolphins. Three rings and a head covered with horny plates overgrown with algae were clearly visible.

39. In the summer of the same year, two Tatars, standing on the cliff of Cape Meganom, saw below on the shore something that they at first mistook for a large tree, 10 meters long. They began to throw stones at it. Suddenly this tree came to life and, wriggling, disappeared into the depths of the sea.

40. July 1, 2009, 5:30 p.m. Ryazan tourist Viktor Panasyuk and his family sat on the beach in the village of Ordzhonikidze and filmed dolphins swimming in the sea with a video camera. At home, watching the video footage, he saw a school of dolphins of 6-8 individuals diving against the background of a white boat. To the left of them, a head similar to a snake appears from under the water and moves towards the dolphins. And behind the head a trail moves, as if from long body, a black back, 30 meters long, is periodically shown. Bleki, wriggling, swam under water, sometimes appearing on the surface. Interestingly, when the snake appeared and began to move towards the dolphins, two individuals separated from the group, which were in front of the school, and headed towards the object, as if diverting the snake’s attention from the rest of the group. Looking at the image frame by frame, you can see how a huge mouth opens and closes, and a mane is visible on the head. The head becomes higher and lower. When 2 dolphins dive, it is clear that the diameter of the snake's head is about a meter. The next day at 18 o'clock Victor again saw the snake in the same place.
In one of the photographs of his friend, who also photographed dolphins, he saw this kite, only swimming in the other direction, then from left to right, now from right to left, and on that day there was absolute calm. In the photo, the snake can be seen emerging from under the water with a flat brown muzzle with a white spot, and part of the tail. In the evening, Victor met a diver who told him about his meeting with the snake “Blackie” under water.

41. August 28, 2009. District of the village of Rybachye. At 17:20, Nikolai Mikhailovich Obornev and 19 other people on various boats and motorboats were fishing 350 meters from the shore. Suddenly a school of dolphins approached them and behaved very strangely. Some dolphins, like in a circus, stood on their tails and raced along the surface of the water. Suddenly Nikolai Mikhailovich saw something in the sea, which he initially mistook for a large suitcase floating at high speed in his direction. His comrade Victor, who was sitting on the bow of the boat, unable to say anything, pointed to the object with his hand. Nikolai Mikhailovich saw a huge head of a snake, about a meter in diameter, on which there were growths similar to a crown. The armor plates were clearly visible on the dark brown back. Nikolai Mikhailovich saw the eyes of the snake and screamed in horror. Vyacheslav Tatarinov, who was also on the boat, saw that Nikolai’s hair stood on end. Nikolai seemed to be nailed to the board on which he was sitting. The snake, wriggling, chased the dolphins at high speed, then its head disappeared under the water, and two brown rings appeared on the surface. At this time, a large boat under the control of Mikhail Malyshev approached him, who also screamed in horror. All 20 people from all the boats watched the snake in horror and everyone screamed. Then everyone started their engines and rushed to the shore.

42. In the summer of 2009, a girl and a guy were sailing on a catamaran in the Gulf of Feodosia. The girl saw a school of dolphins and began filming them with her video camera. The dolphins were swimming away from the catamaran, the girl turned the camera to the guy and saw behind him, about two meters from the catamaran, a black shadow under the water. At first the girl simply couldn’t believe her eyes. The shadow floated past them, and the girl froze, as if in a stupor, with the camera working. The guy, seeing that she had fallen silent, followed the direction of her gaze and also saw an underwater shadow that was 20 meters long. The monster swam towards the pod of dolphins. The guys got scared and rushed to the shore. The recording on the camera turned out to be good quality, and the skin of the monster was even clearly visible, but not completely, but only from the middle of the body.

43. On May 27, 2010, Sergei Solkhatsky, while on Cape Kapchik in the New World, saw a huge snake swimming in the direction of Cape Ai-Foka at a distance of 700 meters from the shore. Blackie swam, sometimes raising his dark brown head to a height of about three meters. Sergei watched the snake for about ten minutes.

44. 09/19/2010, Alexander Kozlov and Timur from Perm, went by boat to the Bay of Love. Suddenly they saw a huge snake approaching the shore. They froze in horror. The snake, clinging to the sand with its paws, began to crawl onto the beach. A woman sitting on the shore screamed in horror, then, grabbing her child, began to climb the rocks. The snake stopped, then turned around and crawled into the sea. Having entered the water, the serpent swam along its surface, then disappeared under the water. Marat managed to film the back of the kite on video.

45. 04/30/2012, Lesha Jamaica, Valera Rybak and Max saw 2 kilometers from the shore a huge snake, which, turning its head in different sides, looked at the shore.

46. ​​On July 10, 2012 at 14.00, Moscow artist Irina Ilysheva, her daughter Asya and nephew Denis, sitting on the shore of Quiet Bay, heard a loud, unusual sound. Looking out to sea, they saw how, from the side of Cape Kiik-Atlama, between the Crab Stone and the shore, a huge black snake was swimming, which high speed, sometimes appearing on the surface of the sea, moved towards Cape Chameleon. Asya clearly saw how the snake sometimes raised its head above the surface of the water. The diameter of the head is 1.5 m, the neck is 1 m. Behind the head, Asya saw three black triangular ridges. They all became very scared, and this fear did not go away for 2 days.

47. On August 4, 2013, at 10 a.m., the diving boat “Aquanaut” was in the roadstead of the port of Feodosia. Suddenly, the entire crew of the boat saw, at a distance of 70 meters from them, a huge snake emerging from under the water. The snake was more than 40 meters long, it was covered with algae, dark brown in color. All the divers were seized with wild horror. The director of the diving company, Viktor Globenko, overcame his fear and began filming “Blacks” on his mobile phone. Then he called me. I asked them to come closer and film the snake. But they still could not overcome their fear. After 20 minutes, the snake swam towards Cape Ilya and soon disappeared under water. The snake was observed by: boat captain Kudykin, senior diver Lapin and 5 other crew members.

Not all of the above 47 facts of encounters with the Karadag serpent over the last hundred years can be taken on faith.
But among them there are many quite reliable ones.

Analyzing numerous and long-term observations snake-like monsters in the Black Sea, we can conclude that they exist three types: A 30-meter snake with a brown mane, a 40-meter snake with a white, silver color, and a 10-15-meter animal with limbs.

Judging by numerous observations, Karadag snake hunts dolphins.

In recent years, while hunting, he began to move away from Kara-Daga further and further.

Numerous observations of unusual reptiles in Crimea indicate that in ancient times huge snake-like creatures lived on our peninsula.

Previously, the banks of all Crimean rivers were covered with impenetrable thickets: blackthorn, rosehip, pine tree, dogwood and other trees.

Forests and steppes were not as densely populated and plowed as they are now.

In the 60s in Crimea, they began a program to straighten the Crimean rivers - then many were destroyed relict species fish, reptiles, animals and plants that are still unknown. Soon our scientific herpetologists will have to make many more sensational discoveries. There is generally accepted science and history, and there is true science and history, which differs in many ways from the one we know in a given period of time.
Creation Karadag Reserve, undoubtedly helped Sea serpent, protecting his halo of habitat from prying eyes. And it’s not without reason to enter the territory of the Karadag Nature Reserve and walk outside ecological trail, so difficult. Maybe the scientists at the biological station know something and are hiding it from general public? Who needs panic in the resort Koktebel? Yes and bother Karadag snake crowd of reckless photographers is clearly not worth it; this close acquaintance will undoubtedly entail new victims.

But, nevertheless, in our time there is a science - Cryptozoology, the goals and objectives of which are to study living organisms unknown to science, the existence of which is not recognized by modern science, and is supported only by folklore and eyewitness accounts.
For such creatures, cryptozoologists introduced a special term - cryptids.

Thus, The Karadag snake is a typical cryptid, the existence of which is confirmed so far only by indirect facts.
The Black Sea has depths of up to 2 thousand meters, the shores are winding and full of underwater caves... What is hidden in the underground kingdom underwater world?
Our planet continues to hide many secrets...

Every year dozens of new species of animals, insects, and plants are discovered on the planet.
Crimea is no exception. New species of rather large creatures are constantly found here. Therefore, proof of the existence of a plesiosaur lizard in a little-studied marine environment is a matter of not so distant tomorrow.

And I will throw another pebble into this garden - my meeting with the next victim Karadag snake.
On a stormy January day in 2017, I decided to take a walk according to Meganom, and at its foot, in Kapsel Bay, discovered the body of a dolphin washed up by the sea. It was at 9 am.

The bite marks were fresh, the blood had not yet clotted properly. The attack occurred in the early morning.

The drawings made by the artist of the Karadag biological station from the words of the fishermen who pulled out a similar disfigured corpse of a dolphin were still fresh in my memory. Also, with one bite, the belly was torn out, along with the ribs. All the flesh was torn out almost to the spine. With one bite... And along the edges there are traces of large teeth...

I estimated the size of the bite, it turned out to be about 60 - 70 cm in diameter! Just like the 1990 Dolphin.

IN Black Sea There are no marine predators with jaws of this size. Scientists talk about supposedly blue sharks that sometimes enter the Black Sea... It is unlikely that a shark would catch up with a dolphin and tear out its side... In fact, sharks themselves are afraid of dolphins.
But for plesiosaurs, mammals were always desirable prey. And merciless lizards are capable of much.
Others claim that these reptilians have an intelligence... Much superior to the intelligence of dolphins. Everything can be...
It is not easy for such large lizards to survive in the current modern conditions...
But they survive!
It is interesting that the time of the attack almost coincides: then in 1990 - December... And now in January...
Well, this is already some kind of mysticism. And the place is suitable.

Some call Megan a place of Power and organize pilgrimages. Gurus of all faiths build temples on Meganom and conduct trainings with their adherents. On the contrary, this place is not popular among local residents, it causes panic attacks of fear in many and enjoys a bad reputation - too many people die or disappear there. Local residents of Sudak avoid Meganom. But military researchers in Soviet times conducted various secret experiments on Meganom. Everyone knows cases with yellow energy rings appearing out of nowhere... However, this is another, separate topic.

But when winter comes, crowds of vacationers are washed away from the shores by the cold winter sea.
From the depths of unknown underwater dungeons, the Karadag Cryptids come and begin the hunt...

To be continued...

Follow the news on the website: the article “Travel to Yulanchik - the homeland of the Karadag snake” is coming.

I accept applications for individual tours to places associated with the appearance of the Karadag monster.
Planned tour to these places on May holidays from 5 to 11 May

Ancient documents tell about black sea dragon, nicknamed Blackie - either because he lives in the Black Sea, or because of the blackness of his skin (black in English is “black”). In the 20th century, it began to be called the Black Sea Nessie for its resemblance to a similar monster in Loch Ness.

We called him Porfiry

This huge sea animal was already described by the ancient Greeks, Romans and Byzantines. Back in the 5th century BC, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus spoke about a monster living in the Pontus Euxine (as the Black Sea was then called).

The monster was black in color, with a gigantic wriggling body about 30 meters long, with clawed paws and an incredibly large mouth with two rows of teeth of a terrifying size. It is reported that the monster moved at tremendous speed, easily overtaking the fastest ships of the time.

And here is a quote from the surviving records of the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea, who lived in the 6th century: “A vile monster was captured, which we called Porphyry. This beast tyrannized Byzantium and its environs for more than half a century. The monster, with its unexpected attack, sank many ships and the people on them. Emperor Justinian ordered to catch the monster, but no one succeeded...

I’ll tell you how I finally managed to catch the beast. It happened that on that day the sea was absolutely calm, without waves. A large school of dolphins swam near the mouth of the Euxsinian Pontus, but when they saw the monster, they scattered in different directions. Having caught some, the monster immediately swallowed them, and then continued to pursue the rest until, in excitement, it swam too close to the shore. Having gotten stuck near the shore in deep mud, the animal began to fight to get away, but could not budge. When the fishermen saw this, they gathered all the local residents and began to beat the monster with whatever they could, after which he, already dead, with the help of ropes they pulled him ashore. Having placed the beast on the carts, they determined that its length was thirty cubits and its width ten (one cubit is approximately 45 centimeters)... With death sea ​​beast the coastal population was delivered from many of the troubles they had caused.”

Parallel course

Later, Turkish sailors repeatedly informed the Sultan about attacks on ships by the Black Sea monster. Russian sailors from Admiral Ushakov’s squadron also saw it, which was later reported to Emperor Nicholas I. He was very surprised and even sent a special expedition to Crimea to catch and study the unknown beast. The team of scientists never found the monster itself, but they did find its huge egg, which weighed a little less than a pound.

A moving embryo, resembling a lizard, was visible through the shell. The scientific discussions and research that had begun were stopped when it hit the peninsula. Crimean War. Nobody knows where the egg went.

The next few decades boiled down to rare stories from random eyewitnesses, individual testimonies of fishermen and sailors about the monster, and a huge number of implausible stories. They decided that the thundering iron steamships that appeared in the waters simply frightened the beast and it hid.

However, it was during the fighting of the First World War that the monster appeared again. This was reported by the captain of a German submarine, who saw a huge animal moving almost silently under water parallel to their course. It was a full moon, and the officer clearly saw the monster through binoculars. The idea arose to shoot him from the bow gun, but he, fearing a collision with this hulk, ordered an urgent retreat to the depths...

During World War II, the captain of another German submarine named Max Hegen also saw the monster, but during the day. Naval officer was so amazed that he immediately reported this to Admiral Karl Dönitz.

Dog head!

The presence of a giant monster in the Black Sea was mentioned by the poet Maximilian Voloshin in his memoirs. He reported the meeting to Mikhail Bulgakov, who used this strange plot in his science fiction story “Fatal Eggs.”

IN Soviet era many stories were told when sea ​​serpent attacked holidaymakers and even sank small ships, after which local fishermen for a long time they were afraid to go to sea. In the end, the authorities, tired of numerous requests and complaints, sent a company of Red Army soldiers to the Karadag area to find and destroy the monster, but by that time it had literally disappeared into thin air. Despite the fact that targeted searches for the creature yielded nothing, it continued to terrorize and frighten the local population from time to time, appearing from the water at the most unexpected moments.

In 1938, a Tatar fisherman from the village of Kuchuk-Lambat (now Kiparisnoye) encountered a monster head-on among the rocks near the shore. The monster did not touch him, but the fisherman suffered from apoplexy from fear. When the poor fellow was found, he repeated: “Dog's head! Dog's head! Two months later the fisherman died.

From the notebook of Vsevolod Ivanov

In 1952, while near Feodosia, the Black Sea Blackie was observed by the famous Soviet prose writer Vsevolod Ivanov for more than half an hour. While admiring the frolicking dolphins, he suddenly noticed not far from them what seemed to him a strange stone, more than 10 meters in circumference, all covered with algae. He had never seen anything like this here before. Surprised by the find, he continued observing, but the stone suddenly moved, turning into a disgusting monster gigantic size. This is what he noted later in his notebook: “This creature swam in wave-like movements to the place where the dolphins were, that is, to the left side of the bay. It was large, very large, 25-30 meters, and as thick as a desk top if you turned it sideways. It was half a meter under water, and it seems to me that it was flat. The lower part of it was apparently white, as far as the depth of the water allowed it to be understood, and the upper part was dark brown, which allowed me to take it for algae. The monster, wriggling in the same way as swimming snakes, slowly swam towards the dolphins. They immediately fled. Not having caught up with the dolphins, and perhaps not even thinking of chasing them, the monster curled up into a ball, and the current carried it again to the right. It again began to look like a brown stone overgrown with algae.

Carried to the middle of the bay, just to the place or approximately to the place where I saw it for the first time, the monster turned around again and, turning towards the dolphins, suddenly raised its head above the water. The head, the size of the armspan, looked like a snake's. For some reason I couldn’t see the eyes, from which we can conclude that they were small. After holding its head above the water for about two minutes—large drops of water were dripping from it—the monster turned sharply, lowered its head into the water and quickly swam away behind the rocks enclosing Carnelian Bay...”

In the 90s of the last century, local fishermen several times discovered dead dolphin carcasses with strange injuries in their nets. So, for example, the belly of one dolphin seemed to be torn out entirely, and the width of the injury was at least one meter, and traces of huge teeth were clearly visible along the edge. None of the known sea ​​predators, including sharks that could swim from the Mediterranean Sea, was not able to do this...

However, more accurate information regarding this sea monster has not yet been received, as a result of which the very existence of Blackie, despite numerous testimonies eyewitnesses and scientists are questioned. The only video recording of the creature, where you can supposedly see something gigantic floating on the waves of the Black Sea, is an amateur video recording made by the Gusarenko couple in the fall of 2009.

Hello friends.

Many of us know that the world is full of secrets and mysteries. Let us recall, for example, the famous Nessie, who has been seen more than once in Loch Ness, or the giant octopuses of which are occasionally raised from the depths by fishing boats. Every year there are more and more such messages.

Whether to believe in their existence or not, everyone decides for themselves. Today I want to talk about a mysterious animal that supposedly lives in the Black Sea at the foot of an ancient volcano.

Some call it the Karadag snake, others consider it an extinct reptile that has somehow survived to this day, others consider it the spirit of Mount Karadag.

The locals even gave him a name - Blackie.

But first things first.

The first mentions of a strange creature living in the Black Sea appeared a long time ago. The ancient Greeks composed legends about him that have survived to this day. The scientist Herodotus described it as a giant snake with black scales, a horse's head, long tail and a ridge on the back.

According to ancient legends, when the creature surfaced, it foamed the water, raising big waves, capable of sinking a small boat. The look of the terrible red eyes made the sailors freeze with horror and discouraged any desire to approach the terrible place.

This was also confirmed by Turkish sailors. In their reports to the Sultan they talked about scary monster, sinking ships and devouring their crew alive.

Local residents also added fuel to the fire by frightening travelers with stories of snake attacks on coastal villages.

One of the ancient legends “Chershamba” tells about snake place located near the current village of Shchebetovka (old name Otuz). According to legend, in a lowland overgrown with reeds lived big snake which (curled up in a ball) could be confused with a haystack, and if anyone met it crawling, then its length was ten knees or more (a knee is a measure of length equal to 40-50 cm).

To get rid of this scourge, the local khan specially ordered the Janissaries from Istanbul, who killed the snake, but it is no secret that offspring could remain from it.

Later mentions

In the 19th century, the Evpatoria police officer (authority representative) wrote in his report to Emperor Nicholas 1 about the appearance in the vicinity of a huge snake with a hare's head and a horse's mane, which attacked sheep and drank their blood.

These eyes are opposite...

By order of Nicholas, an expedition was sent to Crimea to capture this reptile. It was not possible to catch the snake itself, but an egg weighing 12 kilograms was found, and nearby the remains giant tail. The egg was cracked open, revealing an embryo with clear signs his "dragon" affiliation. There are rumors that the egg is still kept somewhere in the storerooms of the Kherson Museum of Nature.

At the beginning of the last century, a note appeared in a Feodosia newspaper that a huge snake had appeared in the area of ​​Mount Karadag, and a company of Red Army soldiers was sent to catch it. Arriving in Koktebel and exploring the surrounding area, the military found only a trace of a mighty body going into the sea.

In 1952, the writer Vsevolod Ivanov, while walking in Carnelian Bay (Koktebel area), saw a ball of algae in the sea, which at first he did not pay much attention to. However, after some time, I noticed that the ball began to unravel and lengthen on its own, and as a result, it swam towards a pod of dolphins that appeared nearby.

The length of the creature was about 30 meters and it moved like a snake, in a wave-like manner. The dolphins, sensing danger, scattered.

Cases of attacks by unknown creatures on dolphins in the Black Sea are quite common.

In 1990, a team of fishermen, near the village of Ordzhonikidze, went to sea to check their nets. While checking one of the nets, the fishermen discovered its break, at the end of which a dolphin, the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin, was dangling with its tail entangled.

The animal's stomach and ribs were bitten out in one piece, and the width of the bite was about a meter. The edge of the bite was framed by teeth marks up to 4 cm in size.

Frightened by what they saw, the fishermen cut the net, threw the remains of the dolphin into the water, and quickly left the place.

What does modernity say?

According to one of the windsurfers, who was engaged in his favorite sport a few kilometers from the shore, suddenly something threw his board, causing him to fall into the water. But what surprised him most of all was not this, but the fact that he fell on something large, hard and clearly alive.

Having come to his senses, he rushed to the shore at the speed of a bullet and, fortunately, “something” did not pursue him.

During one of the dives of the Bentos underwater laboratory, scientists noticed a blurry shadow across the submarine’s hull. Having looked more closely, they realized that something huge was floating next to the porthole, appearance resembling a snake.

It was not possible to photograph it, either because of the stupor that arose, or because the creature, sensing something was wrong, quickly went into the depths.

No less interesting case occurred quite recently in 2004 and was described on her website by Tatyana Karatsuba Seid-Burkhan.

According to her, while relaxing on Karadag with their friends, they watched the love games of two sea snakes at once. Huge white bodies with black backs wriggled right at the foot of Karadag.

The observation lasted for several hours, and then... her words simply amazed me:

— Tired of looking, we retired to the cave!?

In my opinion, this is a strange statement! Can you get tired of looking at a creature that no one has seen before? Don't try to take a video or photo of it?

I would probably run to Koktebel just for this to get a camera.

Who are you, Blackie?

What kind of animal is this anyway?

Based on the descriptions of eyewitnesses, Blackie could either be a large representative of the lizards that dominated the planet millions of years ago, or a snake that somehow grew to enormous sizes. Or maybe it’s actually two different types animals.

Lizard?

Could an ancient lizard of this size survive the impact of a meteorite and the ensuing ice age, and exist for millions of years practically undetected?

If we assume that he lived in underwater caves near Karadag, where at that time it was probably warm from the close occurrence of magma, then it is possible.

It’s hard to say what he ate all this time, whether he could breathe on the surface or whether he had enough air from the caves, or whether he had gills at his disposal.

One thing can be said with certainty: in order to exist for so long, it needed to breed offspring, which means there must be at least two animals.

Snake?

If this is still a sea serpent, which appeared long after the meteorite fell, then how did it reach such a size? Today, the largest snake known to science is the anaconda, but its size does not exceed 12 meters.

What did this snake eat to grow so big? Dolphins? Given their agility, this is not an easy prey.

Plankton? Fish? As is known, the Black Sea is a sea closed type, and due to the presence of a hydrogen sulfide zone, it is also practically lifeless at depths of more than 200 meters. There are clearly no such huge migrations of fish and plankton as in the oceans.

Or maybe gigantism is associated specifically with hydrogen sulfide? IN small quantities it is found in the cells of our bodies and the bodies of animals and helps regulate life processes.

Well, just like in the first case, there must be at least two individuals of different sexes.

Where do you live?

During the period of active movement of earth layers, when the appearance of the Southern Crimea was being formed, it is quite possible that voids could have formed under Karadag and in the nearby bottom layer. This area is already long time is a nature reserve and therefore poorly studied.

It is in these voids, and possibly entire networks of caves with huge galleries, that hitherto unknown life could well have survived modern science. It’s not for nothing that every year scientists discover new species of animals and plants.

Why do you meet so rarely?

Well, they don’t like people with their wild desire to tame an unknown animal.

But seriously, as mentioned above, the area has been poorly studied. There may be only a few animals, and due to mass fishing, they have serious problems with food.

There may be many options, and there is no clear answer to this question yet.

However, some environmental activists are trying to protect the marine reptile unknown to science and are appealing to the government to take measures to preserve the habitat of the Karadag snake.

It is not known for certain whether snakes actually exist or are they just a figment of fantasy, however, for example, the Scottish authorities still keep the question of Nessie’s existence open on the agenda, and are trying with all their might to keep its halo of habitat intact.

Interesting (fact?)

About 20 years ago, residents of a remote Chinese village killed and ate a real sea dragon!

Having stoned him to death, they, following old grandmother’s recipes, began to cook a stew from him, grind the bones into powder to prepare healing potions, and sell the meat at the local market.

The dragon in China is a sacred and magical creature, and therefore the villagers decided to use it for its intended purpose.

When information about this reached civilization, scientists decided to reassure the local population. We conducted an examination of the half-eaten leftovers and... almost went crazy!

The remains belonged to a plesiosaur!

This is how science lost living proof of the existence of dinosaurs in our time.

To believe what is told or not is a purely personal matter. I don’t claim to be the original source, so I ask you not to hit me too hard with sticks. It’s better to express your own opinion on this matter.

That's all I have for today.

Best regards, Sergey Drozdov.

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