Aquatic creatures. Russia

On July 30, 1953, the head of the geological party of the East Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences V. Tverdokhlebov (who observed the phenomenon with a witness-geologist B.Bashkatov) wrote in his diaries:

"...The object was floating, and quite close. It was something alive, some kind of animal. It was moving in an arc: first along the lake, then straight towards us. As it approached, a strange numbness, from which it turns cold inside, seized me. A dark gray carcass towered slightly above the water... 2 symmetrical light spots, similar to the eyes of an animal, were clearly distinguished, and something like a stick was sticking out of the body... We saw only a small part of the animal, but a huge massive body was guessed under the water... With a heavy throw, slightly rising out of the water, it rushed forward, and then completely submerged in the water. At the same time, waves were coming from his head, which were born under the water. "Flaps his mouth, catches fish," a guess flashed..."