7 exciting puzzles that Lake Baikal is fraught with

Lake Baikal is unique in many ways. It stores about 20% of the world's reserves of fresh lake water, and its transparency is such that it is easy to examine objects located at a depth of 50 m. In addition, absolutely unbelievable phenomena occur in the lake that cannot be explained logically. Here are 7 of the most unusual puzzles of Lake Baikal that are amazing.

Ice hills

Lake Baikal is unique for its unusual forms of ice cover. Among them, the so-called "hills" are especially noted - ice cones hollow inside, whose height can reach 6 m.

Baikal mirages

The locals call them hololenitsa. This is a phenomenon on Lake Baikal, in which on the horizon it is possible to consider objects that are actually at a distance of 40 km. Mirages on the lake appear both in the warm and in the winter season.

Damn funnel

This place is located in the deep part of Lake Baikal. It got its name because of strange phenomena occurring here 1-2 times a year. In fine weather, with full calm, a huge funnel suddenly forms here. Locals believe that this is how the gates of hell open here, which draw the souls of sinners into the underworld.

Baikal Triangle

Huge rings on the ice.

These huge rings with a diameter of several kilometers, periodically appearing on the ice surface of Lake Baikal, can only be seen from the air. According to the results of observation from space, it became known that the rings appeared only in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2009 and each time in a new place.

Witches circles on Olkhon

According to the legends of the locals, perfectly even circles of grass, periodically arising on one of the islands of Baikal, appear here due to witches dance. Ufologists believe that rings reaching a diameter of several tens of meters arise as a result of landing of aliens.

Luminous water

In 1982, researchers for the first time using special equipment found that the water of Lake Baikal glows. Unfortunately, this phenomenon cannot be seen with the naked eye. The level of luminescence in this case is 100 photons per 1 square. cm per second. Further studies showed that the luminescence of the waters is heterogeneous and loses intensity at a depth. Also, its brightness decreases from November to mid-January.