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Picture generated with AI Location: Lacul Vinderel, Maramures Mountains Natural Park, Romania Dates Active: Unknown Category: Cryptids, Curses, Monsters, Peculiar Natural Formations, Unexplained Deaths, Witchcraft Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424G-00076 Summery:   This lake is said to drown even the strongest and most skillful of swimmers, and that human body parts can sometimes be found floating on its surface from time to time. In Depth: Lacul Vinderel is a glacial lake in northern Romania in the Maramures Mountains. It is fed by snow melt and rainwater, making it extremely cold, and is on a nature preserve meant to protect rare plant species. It's high elevation, remote location and limited access make it perfect for local legends to spring up. Some of the more benign stories about the lake is that it is supposedly bottomless,or that on St. Elijah's Day young women could walk into the lake and wash in its waters while whispering magical spells in order t...

Picture generated with AI Location: Kholat Syakhl, Northern Urals, Russian SFSR, Russia Dates Active: February 1 - February 2, 1959 Category: Conspiracies, Mass Deaths, Unexplained Deaths Cause: Various possible Status: Closed Entry ID: 010624D-00005 Summery:   Russian hikers die under mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains. In Depth: Ten hikers set out on an extreme, several week hike in the Ural Mountains. One of the hikers comes down with a sickness, leading him to return home while the remaining nine continue on without him. They are never heard from again. Investigators were sent up to the mountain when the hikers did not report back, finding their tent in a state of disarray with holes cut out of the side of the tent from the inside. Inside the tent they found that the hikers had left significant portions of their clothing, which could be lethal in the severe winter cold. Over the next month the bodies of the hikers are found. All nine had died, six from what ap...