The world's largest lake sits in frozen isolation in Siberia, visited by so few that

stories have grown about the fearsome monsters inhabiting it.

Today we're going to look at some of the most famous of these legends and see how and

why they came to be popularly believed.

The Denizens of Lake Baikal are up next on Skeptoy.

You're listening to Skeptoyd, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoyd.com.

The Denizens of Lake Baikal There is only one world record that

Russia's Lake Baikal doesn't hold, that of the largest lake by surface area.

That's the Caspian Sea, but Lake Baikal is the world's largest lake by volume.

It is the world's deepest lake and the world's oldest lake.

It holds over a fifth of all the fresh water on Earth, more than all five of North America's

great lakes combined.

Its water could blanket the entire continent of Australia 3 meters deep.

It is located in the remote south of Siberia, just above Mongolia, in a region best known

for its harsh winters and sparse population.

With such a forbidding description, it's a little wonder that Lake Baikal has drawn

all kinds of stories about mysterious creatures that lurk beneath its wind and snow swept

icy surface.

Today we're going to review as many as I could squeeze into a Skeptoyd podcast.

We'll begin with the one that I found to be the most popular.

It's been told and re-tolled on every paranormal website and by most of today's TV programs

that promote alien visitation as real.

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