What can I tell you about a place that you were never supposed to know existed?

I can tell you there was a lake, high in the southern neural mountains of Russia.

I can tell you what it looks like on Google Maps, a small blue spot in the shape of a cursive

V.

I can tell you that if you weren't looking for it, you'd skip right over it.

I can tell you you do not want to have a picnic on the shores of this lake.

I can tell you it's called Lake Carache.

Undoant theorist and this is out of Obscara, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

Today, I'm going to try and tell you about Lake Carache, a place where fact and fiction

blur.

After this.

The list of things I can't tell you about Lake Carache is much longer.

I don't know how to get there.

I don't know if any animals live nearby.

I don't know if there's a smell to the lake.

I don't know if the sun shines directly on it or it dapples through tree cover.

I don't know why this lake was chosen as a nuclear dumping site.

Most of the world may have gone on forever, not knowing about Lake Carache.

The government researchers hadn't spotted something abnormal in the Arctic Ocean, thousands

of miles away, heightened radiation levels.

They traced the radiation back, back to the river, and followed the trail further upstream

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