Mystery: The Brosno Dragon (RUSSIA)

It’s often said that war is hell, but what’s hell without at least the occasional demon? Perhaps that’s why some of the most plausibility-straining monster sightings in history have been set against the backdrop of a world gone mad with violence and death.

Located around 400 kilometers (250 mi) south of Moscow, Lake Brosno is a moderately sized (but surprisingly deep) body of water with a big reputation.

According to legend, a fearsome horde of Tatar horsemen were on their way to sack the city of Novgorod when they decided to stop for a nice rest by the lake. Everyone was having a lovely time until a huge reptilian monster suddenly lunged out of the water and began attacking both men and horses.

Taking the dragon attack as a bad sign, the Tatars decided to leave Novgorod alone and just go home instead. That’s firmly in the realm of myth, but stories about a monster in Lake Brosno abound, essentially making “Brosnya” Russia’s equivalent of the Loch Ness monster.

In 2002, a Russian UFO group organized an expedition to take sonar readings of the lake, reporting a “huge jelly-like mass” lying just above the lakebed. Since this was Russia, they immediately lobbed an explosive device at it, prompting it to start rapidly rising to the surface.

Fortunately, when the team looked into the water “there was nothing resembling a monster,” thus sparing them the terrible fate of the Tatars. Some Soviet skeptics have suggested scientific scenarios supposedly solving the serpent sightings.

For example, it’s possible that hydrogen sulphide occasionally builds up at the bottom of the lake and rushes to the surface, creating an eruption of bubbles that might be mistaken for an underwater creature.

Alternatively, a volcanic fracture at the bottom of the lake might eject similar gases. Or maybe some “Brosnya” sightings are just wet elk swimming across the lake.

However, even a very large elk surely couldn’t have leaped from the water and swallowed a German plane whole, as Brosnya is rumored to have done during World War II.
By-Bryan , Ancient and Modern Warfare Facts , cryptopia.us