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Where do planets appear from time to time in various bodies of water? prehistoric monsters? They are observed by credible witnesses, and sometimes by dozens of people, but subsequent attempts by scientists to detect exotic animals are unsuccessful. Maybe this happens because these monsters live in a kind of underground Plutonia and only sometimes appear on the surface?

The two- and three-headed nature of the Gorynych Serpents could be due to nuclear mutagenesis, which was hereditarily fixed and passed on through generations. For example, in the USA in San Francisco a woman with two heads gave birth to a two-headed child, i.e. a new race of people has appeared(see also news "A girl with two heads was born in China [video]"). Russian epics report that the Serpent Gorynych was kept in chains, like a dog, and on it the heroes of the epics sometimes plowed the ground, like on a horse. Therefore, most likely, three-headed dinosaurs were the main pets of the asuras.

It is known that reptiles, which are not far removed from dinosaurs in their development, are not amenable to training, but an increase in the number of heads increased general intelligence and reduced aggressiveness.

What caused the nuclear conflict?

According to the Vedas, asuras, i.e. The inhabitants of the Earth were big and strong, but they were destroyed by gullibility and good nature. In the battle between the asuras and the gods described by the Vedas, the latter, with the help of deception, defeated the asuras, destroyed their flying cities, and drove them underground and to the bottom of the oceans. The presence of pyramids scattered throughout the planet (in Egypt, Mexico, Tibet, India) suggests that the culture was united and earthlings had no reason to fight among themselves.

Those whom the Vedas call gods are aliens and appeared from the sky (from space). The nuclear conflict was most likely in space. But who and where were those whom the Vedas call gods, and various religions call the forces of Satan?

Who was the second belligerent?

In 1972 American station Mariner reached Mars and took more than 3,000 images. Of these, 500 were published in the general press. On one of them the world saw a dilapidated pyramid, as experts calculated, 1.5 km high and a sphinx with human face . But unlike the Egyptian one, which looks ahead, the Martian sphinx looks into the sky. The pictures were accompanied by comments - that this was most likely a play of natural forces. The rest of the images will be published by NASA (American Aeronautics and Aeronautics Administration) space research) disappeared, citing the fact that they supposedly needed to be “deciphered.”

More than a decade passed and photographs of another sphinx and pyramid were published. In the new photographs, it was clearly possible to distinguish a sphinx, a pyramid and a third structure - the remains of a wall of a rectangular structure. At the sphinx looking to the sky, A frozen tear rolled out of his eye.

The first thought that could come to mind was that the war took place between Mars and Earth, and those whom the ancients called gods were people who colonized Mars. Judging by the remaining dried up “canals” (formerly rivers), reaching a width of 50-60 km, the biosphere on Mars was no less in size and power than the biosphere of Earth. This suggested that the Martian colony had decided to separate from its mother country, which was Earth, just as America separated from England in the last century, despite the fact that the culture was common.

"Pyramid" on Mars

The Sphinx and the pyramid tell us that indeed there was a common culture, and Mars was indeed colonized by earthlings. But, like the Earth, it was also subjected to nuclear bombardment and lost its biosphere and atmosphere (the latter today has a pressure of about 0.1 atmosphere of the Earth and consists of 99% nitrogen, which can be formed, as the Gorky scientist A. Volgin proved, as a result of vital activity organisms). Oxygen on Mars is 0.1%, and carbon dioxide 0.2% (although there are other data). Oxygen was destroyed by a nuclear fire, and carbon dioxide was decomposed by the remaining primitive Martian vegetation, which has a reddish color and annually covers a significant surface during the onset of Martian summer, clearly visible through a telescope. The red color is due to the presence of xanthine. Similar plants are found on Earth. As a rule, they grow in places where there is a lack of light and could well have been brought by asuras from Mars. Depending on the season, the ratio of oxygen and carbon dioxide varies and on the surface in the layer of Martian vegetation the oxygen concentration can reach several percent.

This makes it possible for the “wild” Martian fauna to exist, which on Mars can be of Lilliputian proportions. People on Mars would not be able to grow more than 6 cm, and dogs and cats, due to their low atmospheric pressure, would be comparable in size to flies. It is quite possible that the asuras who survived the war on Mars were reduced to Martian sizes, in any case, the plot of the tale about "To the little boy" widespread among many peoples, it probably did not arise out of nowhere.

During times Atlanteans who could move on their vimanas not only in the Earth’s atmosphere, but also in space, they could have brought the remains of the Asur civilization from Mars, Thumb Boys, for your own amusement. The surviving plots of European fairy tales, how kings settled little people in toy palaces, are still popular among children. The enormous height of the Martian pyramids (1500 meters) makes it possible to approximately determine the individual sizes of the asuras. Medium size Egyptian pyramids 60 meters, i.e. 30 times more than a person. Then the average height of asuras is 50 meters.
Almost all nations have preserved legends about giants, giants and even titans, who, with their growth, should have had a corresponding life expectancy.

Among the Greeks, the titans who inhabited the Earth were forced to fight with the gods. The Bible also writes about giants who inhabited our planet in the past. Cydonia - region of Mars.

Approximately in the center is the “Martian Sphinx”. The weeping sphinx looking at the sky tells us that he built after the disaster by people (asuras) who escaped death in the Martian dungeons. His species calls out for help to his brothers remaining on other planets: “We are still alive! Come for us! Help us!

The remnants of the Martian civilization of earthlings may still exist. The mysterious blue flashes that occur from time to time on its surface are very reminiscent of nuclear explosions. Perhaps the war on Mars is still ongoing. At the beginning of our century, there was a lot of talk and debate about the satellites of Mars Phobos and Deimos, the idea was expressed that they were artificial and hollow inside, since they rotate much faster than other satellites. This idea may well be confirmed. As reported by F.Yu. Siegel in his lectures, there are also 4 satellites orbiting around the Earth, which have not been launched by any country, and their orbits are perpendicular to the usually launched orbits of satellites. And if all artificial satellites, due to their small orbit, eventually fall to Earth, then these 4 satellites are too far from Earth.

Therefore, most likely they remained from former civilizations. 15,000 years ago history stopped for Mars. The scarcity of remaining species will not allow the Martian biosphere to flourish for a long time. The Sphinx was not addressed to those who were on their way to the stars at that time; they could not help in any way.
He was facing the metropolis - the civilization that was on Earth. Thus, Earth and Mars were on the same side.

Who was with the other one? At one time, V.I. Vernadsky proved that continents can only form due to the presence of the biosphere. There is always a negative balance between the ocean and the continent, i.e. rivers always carry into the oceans less substance than it comes from the oceans.

The main force involved in this transfer is not the wind, but living beings, primarily birds and fish. If it were not for this force, according to Vernadsky’s calculations, in 18 million years there would be no continents on Earth. The phenomenon of continentality has been discovered on Mars, the Moon and Venus, i.e. these planets once had a biosphere. But the Moon, due to its proximity to the Earth, could not resist the Earth and Mars.

Firstly, because there there was no significant atmosphere, therefore the biosphere was weak. This follows from the fact that the dried river beds found on the Moon cannot be compared in any way with the size of the rivers of the Earth (especially Mars). Life could only be exported. The Earth could be such an exporter.

Secondly, a thermonuclear strike was also carried out on the moon, since the American Apollo expedition discovered glassy soil there, baked from high temperatures. By the layer of dust you can determine when the disaster occurred there. 3 mm of dust falls on the Earth in 1000 years; on the Moon, where gravity is 6 times less, 0.5 mm should fall in the same time. Over 30,000 years, 1.5 cm of dust should have accumulated there. Judging by the footage of American astronauts filmed on the Moon, the layer of dust that they raised while walking is somewhere around 1-2 cm.

In the 80s, there were reports in the press about the observation of twisted structures on it, possibly representing the remains of ancient units belonging to the Asur civilization, which, according to American ufologists, created a lunar atmosphere from the soil. In the area of the Stern Crater, on visible side, even with an amateur telescope you can see a web of some structures, maybe these are the remains ancient city on the moon?

Thirdly, everything that happened there was very quickly learned on Earth. The blow was struck suddenly and from a distant object, so that neither the Martians nor the earthlings expected it and did not have time to make a retaliatory strike. Such an object could be Venus.

Shemshuk Vladimir Alekseevich

For several hundred years in a row, the Mongols have been passing on from mouth to mouth the legend of the “Olgoi-Khorkhoi” - a mysterious creature that lives in the lifeless sands of the Gobi Desert. This underground monster, which looks like a giant worm, is supposedly capable of unexpectedly crawling out of cracks in the ground and killing its unexpected victim from a distance with lightning speed.

The Sand Killer would remain a property folklore, if it had not attracted the attention of numerous scientific expeditions.

Despite the fact that not a single monster ever fell into the hands of researchers, a lot of evidence has emerged that a species unknown to science actually exists even today, and not only in the sands of Mongolia...

“Olgoy-Khorkhoi” - the horror of the Mongolian deserts

Due to the fact that Mongolia has always been a country relatively isolated from the outside world, its fauna could present scientists with many surprises. One of these surprises was the “olgoy-khorkhoi” (in Mongolian - “intestinal worm”) - a half-meter underground creature that looks like the dark burgundy insides of animals.

According to the assumptions of local researcher Dondogizhin Tsevegmid, there are several varieties of these underground creatures, among which there are very aggressive creatures with a yellow coloration, capable of chasing their prey.

In 1926, the American scientist Roy Chapman Andrews said that the Mongolian prime minister asked geologists to catch a monster called “allergokhai-khohai,” whose poison killed his relative. According to some scientists, the worm kills with a poison that is similar in composition and action to hydrocyanic acid: the quite ordinary millipede-noddling also uses a similar weapon. According to another, completely incredible hypothesis, an unusual worm has the properties of a generator of small ball lightning.

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Mongolian worms

In 1954 in the sands Central Asia An expedition headed by the American A. Nisbet set off, but at the first attempt to search the desert in search of the mysterious “Olga-Khorkhoi”, the scientists simply... disappeared. A few months later, in a remote area of the Gobi, members of a rescue team discovered both American cars, and not far from them are the decayed corpses of six unlucky travelers, the cause of death of which could not be established.

Already in the 90s, the search for the unprecedented “beast” was continued by Czech researchers Ivan Markale and Jaroslav Prokopets, who found many “traces” of the existence of underground killers and filmed unique video material. According to the Czechs, the mysterious worms are more reminiscent of reptiles that have lost limbs during evolution, but how they generate electricity is still not clear.

Creeping Riddle

Meanwhile, the Mongolian monsters are not alone: similar creatures were seen in North Vietnam, and they are also credited with the disappearance of an entire regiment of French soldiers without a trace in 1953. And during the French intervention in Indochina, General Jean de Lattre de Tassini was more than once interested in certain “ingots” - mysterious blue-eyed worms with silvery bodies covered with fluff. However, later American researchers also searched for “ingots,” but to no avail.

Two months later, a first-grader died from an “underground” electrical discharge, and in 1989-1990 several more cases of injury were recorded electric shock during the earthworks. At the same time, one of the victims even heard “sobping” sounds coming from underground. The source of the strange sounds turned out to be... a thick half-meter lilac worm caught by builders while digging a heating main. Biologists who studied strange creature in laboratory conditions, it was considered a mutant of unknown origin.

Chernobyl nuclear power plant

The terrible solution was not long in coming: one night the local watchman had to fight with... meter-long red-eyed white worms covered with mucus! According to the victim, he accidentally discovered a whole flock of ominous creatures in the bushes. The monsters immediately attacked the unwitting witness, and one of them even tore a piece of meat from the watchman’s hand... The wound received in the night battle became covered with blue spots and began to fester, and the veins burst, oozing a strange brown liquid. When the victim was admitted to the hospital, the doctors threw up their hands: the proximity of the ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear power plant made them think about mutant worms.

Scientists are still arguing about the nature of such creatures. Some consider them worms, which, as a result of mutation, acquired strong skin and learned to spray poison, others see them as legless lizards or snakes capable of generating electricity, and some even called them huge helminths... Which of them is right remains a mystery.

Polina Karavaeva
“The Amazing is Nearby”, No. 8/2010

Almost two percent of the Earth's surface is covered fresh water. It is not surprising that much of what the lakes hide began to be covered with a layer of mystery, from which legends and myths were born. Now we can easily remember, perhaps, only Nessie - the famous Loch Ness monster. But folklore has preserved stories about much more terrible creatures from the lakes. And this collection contains only a few of them.

A terrible beast from the myths of the Mayans and Aztecs. It looks like a cross between a small dog and an otter. The auistol has two stripes on its head, small ears, and a very long, strong tail that ends in a human hand. According to legends, the ahuizotl hunts from ambush: he lies in wait for his prey, plunging into a lake or stream, and at the sight of a person begins to moan and cry pitifully like to a small child or a frightened girl. A passerby hears the screams and immediately rushes to the aid of the “victim.” When approaching the water, the hand on the ahuizotl’s tail strangles the “savior,” and he himself tears out the victim’s eyes, nails and teeth and eats them. Then he throws the lifeless body ashore and waits for the next traveler.

Mishipishu

In the mythology of the Indians of many of the Great Lakes and the northeastern Woodlands, the Mishipishu is one of the most important aquatic creatures. Mishipeshu translates to "great lynx". It has the head and paws of a giant cat and is covered in scales and spines on its back and tail. More detailed sources describe it as having the head of a mountain lion or lynx with the antlers of a deer or bison; its spine to the tip of its tail is covered with scales, spines and sometimes bird feathers. Being a spirit, mishipishu can enter the human body and control it. He can be both a protector and an avenger who will not stop until he achieves his goal. As a rule, Mishipishu kills its victims by biting them in the throat. The behavior of the Mishipishu in general resembles that of a cat: it licks its hands and laps up water with its tongue.

Emela-ntouka

In the Lingala language, the name of this creature is translated as “killer of elephants.” According to legend, the emela-ntouka lives in shallow swamps and lakes of the Congo River basin, especially in the Likouala swamps and possibly Cameroon. Also presumably inhabits Lakes Bangweulu in Zambia. They say that Emela-ntouka has a bay or gray color, dimensions large elephant, a tail like a crocodile and one, but powerful horn on the nose. Traces strange beast look like elephants. Emel-ntouki has three thick, clawed toes on each paw. The “elephant killer” lives in a swamp, can breathe underwater and has the habit of gutting any forest elephant that, willingly or unwillingly, crosses the borders of the territory “staken out” by a strange bloodthirsty creature. At the same time, the main food product of Emel-ntouki is malombo fruits and leaves of various plants. The archives of periodicals mention the only case of a man’s victory over Emel-ntouka, but then, in 1934, the shot animal was not studied by scientists and ingloriously rotted in the forest.

El Cuero

In Spanish, "el cuero" translates to "cow's skin." This is a Chilean mythical monster that lives in the mountain lake Lacar in the Andes. They say it looks like the skin of an animal without a backbone. Such a legend most likely could have arisen from observations of large freshwater electric stingrays, although, unlike stingrays, El Cuero has eyes located on “horns” and has claws. In the middle of El Cuero's body there is a face with a retractable mouth, with which the monster sucks out the blood of its victims - to the last drop.

Dobharchu

A certain semi-aquatic predator that supposedly lives in the rivers and lakes of Ireland. It is described as a large creature, similar to half-wolf and half-fish. Translated from the Gaelic language, Dobhar-chu means “water dog”. The old people talked about a beast living in the lake, and that a certain daredevil with his wolfhound once met such a beast; and after a long struggle he ran away from the man and his dog; and then he was found dead and decomposing in a rocky cave when the water in the lake subsided. Some researchers suggest that dobhar-chu is a distorted description of the giant river otter. And although otters do not attack people, they can grow to significant sizes, which is why a person watching a fast-swimming otter may misjudge its size and mistake it for a dog-like creature.

Faun

Reports of observations in some American states talk about a strange hominid, which is most often observed in Louisiana, Maryland and Texas. It is described as a hybrid creature that has the lower body of a goat and top part human body parts with ram's horns growing from the head. Some claim he is related to the evil chupacabra of New Orleans. Urban legends about them often say that the monsters kill young couples in parked cars on a whim or kill pets in the neighborhood. They are also said to break into people's homes and usually rape their victims. They usually live in forests with large lakes.

Grutslang

Grutslang or translated as “huge snake” is a mysterious water monster that supposedly lives in the flooded caves of Richtersveld, mountainous region deserts in the northwestern part South Africa. In local mythology, Grutslang was a creature with the head and half of an elephant's body and the other half of the body and a tail. huge snake. According to legend, Grutslang had such strength and cunning that the gods - the creators of the Earth - decided to divide it into two separate species - the elephant and the snake. But some grutslangs survived the transformation and disappeared into the very deep caves, where they have survived to this day. Reliable evidence of the existence of Grutslang has not yet been found. Although, according to the natives, the monster reaches 20 meters in length. It is also believed that the cave in which Grutslang lives is full of diamonds, but no one can get close to them, since the monster guards them day and night.

Shell rock

The original English name for this creature is Shellycoat, literally translated as “thin coat.” In the Russian version, it is more often called shell rock. This is a nasty water bogle from the Low Countries that lives in streams and running water. He got his name due to the fact that he often appears in a torn cloak, hung with shells, which rattle with his every movement. There is a well-known story that tells how, late one night, two people heard drawn-out plaintive cries in the distance: “I’m lost! Help!" - They walked for a long time towards the voice along the banks of the Ettrick River. And only at dawn they realized who was calling them: a shell man jumped out of the stream and galloped away along the hillside, bursting with laughter. “Skinny Coat” loves nothing more than to tease, deceive and amaze people without causing them real harm, and then laughs loudly at his own jokes.

Divers

This is the name given to these creatures, which were first spotted in 1955 in Loveland, Ohio. There were three of them, and they looked like small (1 meter in height) humanoid humanoids. Their skin was similar to that of frogs or lizards, and they had webbed hands and feet. The creatures lived in rivers and other small bodies of water, but they also moved well on land. Many eyewitnesses said that most likely they were aliens.

The Beast of Busco

The mysterious giant snapping turtle from Indiana. The first mention of this cryptid dates back to 1898, when farmer Oscar Falk said that a giant turtle lived in a lake not far from his farm. Half a century later, in 1948, two fishermen on Fulk Lake in the area reported seeing a huge turtle, 4.5 meters long and weighing more than 200 kg. According to legend, after this turtle destroyed almost all the livestock on neighboring farms, it was finally caught. True, as soon as the police turned away, the turtle broke the chains and disappeared in an unknown direction at an incredible speed.

We often hear that now more and more more types animals are becoming extinct or on the verge of extinction, and their complete disappearance is only a matter of time. Hunting, destruction of natural habitats, climate change and other factors have led to the fact that the rate of loss of animal species is 1000 times greater than the rate of restoration of the natural background. And although the extinction of animals is always sad, sometimes for us humans, it can even be beneficial.

From 12-metre-long megasnakes to giraffe-sized flying creatures, check out this list of 25 animals you wouldn't want to see next to.

1. Pelagornis Sanders i

With a wingspan of about 7 meters, Pelargonis sandersi was apparently the largest flying bird to ever exist on Earth. She seemed to be able to fly only by pushing off a cliff, and spent most of her life above the ocean, relying on the winds rising off the ocean to keep her afloat. Although compared to pterosaurs, whose wingspan was almost 12 meters, this bird was still quite “moderate” in size.

2. Euphoberia

Similar to modern centipedes in shape and behavior, Euphoberia still had one significant difference - it was more than 90 cm in length! Although scientists aren't entirely sure what exactly it ate, we do know that some modern centipedes feed on birds, snakes, and bats. If a 25-centimeter centipede could hunt birds, imagine what a nearly meter-long one could hunt!

3. Gigantopithecus

Gigantopithecus lived between 9 million and 100,000 years ago in modern Asia. It was the largest species of monkey on Earth. It is believed that this creature, up to 3 meters tall and weighing up to 540 kg, walked on four legs, like gorillas and chimpanzees, but some believe that it could walk on two limbs, like humans. The properties of their teeth and jaws suggest that these animals were able to chew coarse, fibrous foods by cutting into and grinding them.

4. Andrewsarchus

This cutie lived during the Eocene era, about 45-30 million years ago. Andrewsarchus was a huge carnivorous mammal. Given the skull and several bones found, paleontologists suggest that this predator could weigh up to 1800 kg, making it the largest land mammals predator in history. However, the feeding behavior of this animal is not entirely understood, and some theories suggest that Andrewsarchus may have been omnivores or even scavengers.

5. Pulmonoscorpius

The scientific name of this creature translates to “breathing scorpion.” He lived during the Visean era (c. 345-330 million years ago) Carboniferous period. Relying on fossils found in Scotland, scientists believe that this species reached 76 cm in length. It lived on land and probably fed on small arthropods.

6. Megalania

Megalania lived in South Australia. It was a huge lizard that went extinct about 30,000 years ago, which means it may well have been encountered by the first Aborigines of Australia. Scientists disagree on the size of this lizard - it may have reached 7 meters in length, making Megalania the largest land lizard in history.

7. Helicoprion

One of the prehistoric centenarians (310-250 million years ago) - Helicoprion - is a genus of extinct shark-like creatures with an interesting jaw. Reached 4 m in length, but its closest living relatives - the chimaeras - can reach only 1.5 m in length.

8. Entelodons

Unlike their modern relatives, entelodons were boar-like mammals with a particular gourmet taste for meat. Probably one of the most fearsome-looking creatures in history, entelodons walked on four legs and were almost as tall as a man. Some scientists believe that entelodons were even cannibals. Well, if they ate each other, do you think they wouldn't want to eat a human?

9. Anomalocaris

Probably lived in all seas of the Cambrian period. Translated, its name means “abnormal shrimp.” This is a genus of marine animals, close relatives of arthropods. Scientists believe that it hunted solids sea creatures, including trilobites. They had unique eyes with 30,000 lenses - it is believed that these were one of the most “advanced” eyes in the history of the species.

10. Meganeura

Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Carboniferous period. Resembles modern dragonflies (and is related to them). With a wingspan of up to 66 cm, it is one of the largest flying insects in the history of our planet. Meganeura was a predator, and its diet consisted mainly of other insects and small amphibians.

11. Attercopus

Attercopus was a genus of arachnid animal with a scorpion-like tail. For a long time, Attercopus was considered the prehistoric ancestor of modern spiders, but scientists who discovered its traces soon came to a different opinion. It is unlikely that Attercopus spun webs, although it may have been used to wrap eggs, lay down frame thread, or build the walls of its burrow.

12. Deinosuchus

Deinosuchus is an extinct relative of modern alligator crocodiles that lived 80-73 million years ago. Although he was larger than any of them modern species, he looked almost the same. It reached 12 meters in length and had sharp large teeth capable of killing and devouring sea turtles, fish and even large dinosaurs.

13. Dunkleosteus

Living at the end of the Devonian period about 380-360 million years ago, Dunkleosteus was a huge super-predatory fish. Due to its terrifying size (up to 10 m in length and weighing almost 4 tons), it was the apex predator of its time. This fish had strong armor, which made it a relatively slow but very powerful swimmer.

14. Spinosaurus

Larger than Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus is the largest carnivorous dinosaur of all time. It reached 18 m in length and weighed up to 10 tons. They ate tons of fish, turtles and even other dinosaurs. If this horror were alive today, we most likely would not be alive.

15. Smilodon

Smilodon lived in the territory of Northern and South America during the Pleistocene era (2.5 million - 10,000 years ago). This best example saber-toothed cat. An excellent predator with particularly well-developed forelimbs and incredibly long, sharp fangs. The largest individual could weigh up to 408 kg.

16. Quetzalcoatlus

The wingspan of these creatures could reach an incredible 12 meters. This pterosaur was the largest creature ever to fly, including modern birds. However, it is very difficult to estimate the size and weight of these huge animals, because... No existing animal has the same body plan, so published results vary widely. One of the characteristic features of these animals was that they all had unusually long and rigid necks.

17. Hallucigenia

The name comes from the idea that these creatures are very strange, almost like a hallucination. These worm-like creatures were 0.5-3 cm in length and lacked some sensory organs on their heads, such as eyes and nose. Instead, Hallucigenia had seven tentacles on each side of its body, as well as three pairs of tentacles behind them. To say that this is a strange creature is an understatement.

18. Arthropleura

Inhabitant of the Upper Carboniferous period (340-280 million years ago). Lived in the territory of modern North America and Scotland. It was the largest species of terrestrial invertebrate in history. Despite their enormous length, up to almost 2.7 meters, Arthropleura were not predators; they fed on rotting forest plants.

19. Short-faced bear

The short-faced bear is an extinct species of bear that lived in North America in the Pleistocene era up to 11,000 years ago, making it the "most recent" extinct creature on our list. However, its size is truly prehistoric. Standing on its two hind legs, the bear reached 3.6 m in height and 4.2 meters if it raised its front paw up. It is believed that these giants weighed more than 1360 kg.

20. Megalodon

The name of this toothy monster translates as “big tooth.” This is an extinct species of huge shark that lived about 28-1.5 million years ago. With an incredible length of up to 18 meters, it is considered one of the largest and most powerful predators to ever live on Earth. Lived almost all over the world and looked like a larger and more terrifying version of the modern great white shark.

21. Titanoboa

Living approximately 60-58 million years ago during the Paleocene era, Titanoboa was the largest, longest, and heaviest snake in history. Scientists believe that individual representatives of the species reached 12 meters in length and weighed about 1133 kg. Their diet consisted of giant crocodiles and turtles, with which they shared the territory of modern South America.

22. Fororacoaceae

Also called "terror birds", these prehistoric creatures are an extinct genus of large birds of prey that were the largest species in South America during the Cenozoic period, approximately 60 million years ago. The largest flightless bird of prey that ever roamed the Earth. They reached 3 meters in height, weighed up to half a ton and, presumably, could run as fast as a cheetah.

23. Cameroceras

Lived during the Ordovician period 470-460 million years ago. This is the giant ancestor of modern squids and octopuses. Most characteristic feature This mollusk had a huge cone-shaped shell and tentacles with which it caught fish and other sea creatures. It is believed that the size of its shell varied from 6 to 12 meters.

24. Carbonemys

Carbonemys is an extinct genus of huge turtles that lived about 60 million years ago, i.e. they survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils found in Colombia suggest they had a shell that reached almost 1.8 meters. Turtles were carnivores, with huge jaws powerful enough to eat large mammals such as crocodiles.

25. Jaekelopterus

Jaekelopterus, without a doubt, can be called one of the largest arthropods in the world - its length reached 2.5 meters. Sometimes it is called " sea scorpion", however, in fact, it is more related to lobsters living in freshwater lakes and rivers of modern Western Europe. This terrible creature lived about 390 million years ago, earlier than most dinosaurs.

Sometimes it seems that modern man nothing can scare you anymore. We almost calmly watch even the most bloodthirsty horror films, read mystical novels, and computer games sometimes a variety of monsters of the world are involved, both real earthly and fictional. All this no longer surprises anyone. Even teenagers and small children treat all these creatures with slight irony and skepticism.

What will you answer to someone who claims that monsters and monstrosities are also found in our world today? Will you smile? Twist your finger at your temple? Will you start proving the opposite? Don't rush. Why? The thing is that from time to time, unprecedented creatures still appear to people even now.

For example, after delving into your memory, you will probably remember that one of your loved ones, friends or just acquaintances once, under various circumstances, encountered a terrible monster or some inexplicable creature. Is it true?

What if this is not just a figment of an unhealthy imagination or a consequence sleepless night? What if mythological ancient Greek monsters actually existed and continue to live somewhere in our world? To tell the truth, such thoughts give even the bravest of us goosebumps and begin to listen to the surrounding rustles and sounds.

All this will be discussed in this article. However, in addition to the story about where monsters live, we will touch on other, no less interesting, topics. For example, we will dwell in more detail on epics and beliefs, and also introduce readers to modern beliefs and hypotheses.

Section 1. Mythical monsters from fairy tales and legends

Every spiritual culture and religion has its own myths and parables, and, as a rule, they are composed not only about goodness and love, but also about terrible and disgusting creatures. Let's not be unfounded and give some of the most typical examples.

So in Jewish folklore there lives a certain dybbuk, the spirit of a dead sinful person, who can inhabit living people who have committed a serious offense and torment them. Only a very qualified rabbi can remove dybbuks from the body.

Islamic culture, in turn, offers genies as a mythical evil creature - an evil winged people created from smoke and fire, living in a parallel reality and serving the devil. By the way, according to local religion, the devil was also once a genie under the name Iblis.

In religion Western states there are rakshasas, that is, terrible demons that inhabit the bodies of living people and manipulate them, thereby forcing the victim to do all sorts of abominations.

Agree, such mythical monsters inspire fear even if you just read their description, and you really wouldn’t want to meet them.

Section 2. What are people afraid of today?

Nowadays, people also believe in various otherworldly creatures. For example, in Malay (Indonesian) folklore there is a certain pontianak, a female vampire with long hair. What does this do? scary creature? Attacks pregnant women and eats all their insides.

Russian monsters are also not far behind in their bloodthirstiness and unpredictability. Thus, among the Slavs, the evil spirit is represented in the form of a water spirit, the embodiment of the dangerous and negative principle of the element of water. Creeping up unnoticed, he drags his victim to the bottom, and then preserves the souls of people in special vessels.

Let's try to imagine something. In this case, it is impossible not to mention one of the countries of South America. Probably, many have already heard that in Brazilian folklore there is an encantado, a snake or river dolphin that turns into a person, loves sex and has an ear for music. He steals people's thoughts and desires, after which the person loses his mind and eventually dies.

Another one that belongs to the “Monsters of the World” category is the goblin. He has a human appearance - very tall, shaggy with strong arms and glowing eyes. Lives in the forest, usually dense and inaccessible. Goblin ride on trees, constantly fool around, and when they see a person they clap their hands and laugh. By the way, they attract women to them.

Section 3. Loch Ness Monster. Scotland

The lake of the same name, with a depth of 230 m, is the largest reservoir of water in the UK. It is believed that this reservoir, which, by the way, is the second largest in Scotland, was formed quite a long time ago, even in the last ice age in Europe.

There are rumors that a mysterious beast lives in the lake, which was first mentioned in writing back in 565. However, since ancient times the Scots have mentioned water monsters in their folklore, calling them by the collective name “kelpies”.

The modern Loch Ness monster is called Nessie, and its history began almost 100 years ago. In 1933, one married couple, while vacationing nearby, saw something unusual with their own eyes, which they reported in special service. However, despite the testimony of 3,000 witnesses who claim to have seen the monster, scientists are still unraveling the mystery.

Today, many local residents agree that the lake is home to a creature two meters wide and moving at a speed of 10 miles per hour. Modern eyewitnesses claim that Nessie looks like giant snail having a very long neck.

Section 4. Monsters from the Valley of the Headless

The secret of the so-called one is that whoever goes to this area and no matter how armed he is, it is still worth saying goodbye to him in advance. Why? The thing is that no one has ever returned from there.

The phenomenon of people disappearing has still not been solved. Whether all the monsters of the world gather there or whether people disappear due to some other circumstances is not known for certain.

Sometimes only human heads were found at the scene of the incident, and the Indians living in that area claim that all this was done by the Bigfoot living in the valley. Eyewitnesses of the events claim that they saw a creature in the valley that looked like a giant shaggy man.

Perhaps the most fantastic version of the secret of the Valley of the Headless is that in this place there is an entrance to a certain parallel world.

Section 5. Who is Yeti and why is he dangerous?

In 1921, on Mount Everest, whose height is more than 6 km, a footprint left by a bare foot of enormous size was discovered in the snow. It was discovered by an expedition under the command of Colonel Howard-Bury, a very famous and respected mountaineer. The team then reported that the print belonged to Bigfoot.

Previously, the mountains of Tibet and the Himalayas were considered the habitats of the Yeti. Now scientists believe that snow people can live in the Pamirs, Central Africa, in the lower reaches of the Ob, in some areas of Chukotka and Yakutia, and in the 70s of the twentieth century, Yeti were also encountered in America, as evidenced by numerous documentary evidence.

How they can be dangerous for modern people remains a mystery to this day. There have been known cases of the theft of food and sports equipment, but the people themselves seem to be of little interest to these creatures, so there is no need to be afraid of them, let alone panicked.

Section 6. Monster of the seas. Sea serpent: myth or reality?

Many ancient myths and legends tell about the great sea serpent. At one time, both sailors and scientists believed in the existence of such a monster.

All opinions agreed on one thing: after all, there are at least two large species unknown to science. Scientists suggest that in the role sea monster acts as a giant eel or an unknown species of cryptozoology.

In 1964 sea travelers, crossing the Australian Stonehaven Bay on a yacht, saw a huge black tadpole, about 25 m long, at a depth of two meters.

The monster had a huge snake head about 1.2 m wide and high, a thin flexible body with a diameter of approximately 60 cm and a length of 20 m, and a whip-like tail.

Section 7. Megalodon shark. Does it exist now?

In principle, according to several documents that have survived to this day, such a fish, which could easily be classified as a “Monster of the World,” existed in ancient times and resembled a great white shark.

Megalodon was supposedly about 25 meters long, and it is this size that makes it the most large predator ever existed on the planet.

There are many facts that prove the existence of megalodon in our time. For example, in 1918, when crayfish fishermen were working at great depths, they saw giant shark 92 m long. Most likely, it was this particular fish.

Modern scientists are also in no hurry to deny this assumption. They argue that such animals could easily survive in unexplored ocean depths to this day.

Section 8. Do you believe in ghosts?

Myths about spirits have existed since pagan times. The Christian faith also prevails in spirits, telling about the existence of special creatures, for example, angels who control the elements, and the so-called “unclean” ones, which include the goblin, the brownie, the merman, etc.

It just so happens that kind and evil spirits constantly interact with people. Christianity even distinguishes certain human companions: a good guardian angel and an evil tempter demon.

A ghost, in turn, is considered a vision, ghost, spirit, something invisible and intangible. These substances appear, as a rule, at night in sparsely populated places. There is no consensus on the nature of the appearance of ghosts, and the ghosts themselves are often radically different from each other.

Section 9. Giant cephalopods

From a scientific point of view, cephalopods are creatures without a backbone whose body is formed like a bag. They have a small head with a clearly defined physiognomy and one leg, which is a tentacle with suction cups. Impressive appearance, right? By the way, not everyone knows that these creatures have a fairly developed and highly organized brain and live on sea depths from 300 to 3000 m.

Very often, all over the world, the bodies of dead cephalopods wash up on the shores of the oceans. The longest discarded cephalopod was more than 18 m long and weighed 1 ton.

Scientists who explored the depths saw these animals more than 30 m long. But in general it is believed that such monsters of the world can be more than 50 m long.

Section 10. Mysteries of bottomless lakes

In the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region there is a lake called Bezdonnoye. Local residents constantly tell legends about the connection of the lake with the ocean and about the wreckage of sunken ships washed up on its sandy shores.

This reservoir is considered a real natural phenomenon; despite its small size, only 30 m in diameter, it has immeasurable depth.

In the same area there is another strange object - which was formed more than half a million years ago at the site of the fall of a large meteorite. The pond has a diameter of about 100 m, but no one knows the size of its depth. There are almost no fish in it, and no living creatures live on the banks. In summer, in the middle of the lake there is a large whirlpool, reminiscent of a large whirlpool on a river, and in winter, when it freezes, the whirlpool forms a bizarre pattern on the ice. Not long ago, local residents began to observe the following picture: on fine days, certain creatures began to crawl ashore to bask in the sun, according to the description resembling either a huge snail or a lizard.

Section 11. Beliefs of Buryatia

Another lake of unknown depth is Sobolkho, in Buryatia. Both people and animals are constantly disappearing in the lake area. It is very interesting that the missing animals were later found in completely different lakes. Scientists suggest that the reservoir is connected to other underground channels; amateur divers in 1995 confirmed the existence of karst caves and tunnels in the lake, but local residents believe that it is unlikely to survive here without terrible monsters.