Sightings - Into The Deep: Russia, 1982

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

Beneath the surface of the world’s deepest lake, a group of divers descends into the unknown—only to discover that something ancient, intelligent, and not quite human is waiting in the dark. Sightings is a REVERB and QCODE Original. Find us on instagram @sightingspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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something else lurks within these depths. And as this boundary between its world and ours is crossed, the question becomes not what we might discover, but what has already discovered us. Welcome to Sightings, the series that takes you inside the world's most mysterious supernatural events. Each week we bring you a thrilling story that puts you at the center of the action, followed by a discussion that dives into the accounts that inspired the story and our takes on them. I'm McCloud. And I'm Brian.

And this week, we're diving into the deepest lake in the world. When a group of divers come face to face with the impossible, they realize that some mysteries may be older than humanity itself. Find out how on this episode of Sightings. My name is Victor Sokolov, and for 35 years I've carried the weight of what happened beneath Lake Baikal in Siberia. I was 23 then, fresh from the Naval Academy of Vladivostok and eager to prove myself. But truly no training could have prepared me for what I encountered in those dark waters. We arrived at the lake in March of 1982 for deep water dive training, and there was no better place than Lake Baikal, which was and still is the world's deepest freshwater body.

I'd heard stories about the lake since childhood, of course. Rumors of monsters lurking beneath the surface. And locals called it the Sacred Sea, claiming it held secrets deeper than its waters. But I didn't believe in such things back then. Our team consisted of 12 men, 4 instructors, and 8 trainees trainees including myself. We'd been selected from hundreds of candidates and were all elite swimmers.

But in addition to learning the ins and outs of deep water diving, we were also instructed to report our thorough observations in the water. This was strange, but the military had allegedly taken a recent interest in bike hall's depths. The first week went according to protocol. We focused on acclimation dives, nothing deeper than 30 meters. Unlike the ocean, there was no salt to provide buoyancy, making every movement more laborious. And though the waters were impossibly clear, they were brutally cold. So we required specialty suits just to survive, and even then we could only

stay down for short periods before the chill began to affect us. But on our eighth day, everything changed. We were conducting our first deeper dive, down to 60 meters, and the morning was clear and cold. My group consisted of one instructor and four trainees, including myself. All were strong men and excellent divers. We descended along the steep underwater slope that leads to the abyss. Around 50 meters, we stopped to check equipment and make sure everyone was handling the increasing pressure. That's when I noticed Nikolai gesturing towards something in the distance. At first I saw nothing, just the fading blue light from above an endless darkness below.

Then I caught movement. My first thought was that it was a seal. Then I realized that what I was seeing was far too large to be any such creature. Plus there were three of them, each easily three meters tall and moving through the water with an eerie grace, as if the crushing depth and cold meant nothing to them. As they grew closer I realized they were humanoid, with sleek limbs clad in what appeared to be some kind of silver suit, and most disturbing of all, they had no breathing apparatus. No tanks, no regulators, nothing. They were completely exposed, yet completely at ease, at a depth that would

crush unprotected human lungs. They stopped about 20 meters from us, and for a long moment we simply stared at each other. And after what felt like an eternity, they turned in perfect unison and swam away, disappearing into the darkness below. When we surfaced, my fellow recruits were babbling with excitement, but my instructor Baranov and I exchanged worried looks. We'd just witnessed something impossible and seemed to be the only ones who appreciated this fact. So, Baranov and I reported the incident to Captain Volkov immediately. I expected him to dismiss it, to tell us we'd seen shadows or some other

natural phenomenon. But instead, he grew very quiet and made a phone call to headquarters in Moscow Later he summoned baron off back to his office and then baron off pulled me personally aside Our orders had changed he said and we were to now attempt to capture one of these entities for study. I Wanted to object this was madness of course, but I held my tongue. I knew my place in the order of things. That night we prepared for what would become the most notorious mission in Baikal's history. Baranov selected the team himself and chose me and five of our strongest recruits. All, I realized, were men who could handle themselves under pressure. Men who could keep secrets. Our equipment was simple, but effective. Metal snares attached to strong cables, designed to entangle rather than injure. We also carried specialized nets that

could be quickly deployed to surround a target. The plan was to descend to the same location, wait for the beings to appear, then capture at least one of them. If that proved impossible, we were to gather as much information as we could about their capabilities and equipment. They made it sound perfectly straightforward in the briefing room, but I knew better, and spent the night unable to sleep, mind racing with possibilities. What if these things were some kind of new American technology? What if they were something else entirely? Either way, I knew the Kremlin wouldn't authorize an operation like this unless they knew more than they were telling us.

That was for certain. Morning arrived under a blanket of heavy fog, but the lake's surface was mirror smooth, as if it were holding its breath. As we suited up, I noticed my comrades were unusually quiet. Most had seen the same things I had, but now the reality of our mission seemed to be sinking in. So we performed our final equipment checks in complete silence, testing every seal twice. Then we entered the water and began our descent. We settled about sixty meters down, just as we had the

day before, and positioned ourselves in a loose circle, our nets and cables at the ready. For nearly twenty minutes, nothing happened. Then Barananov signaled. I followed his gesture and saw three silvery figures rising from below, moving directly towards us with that same fluid grace. To my eye they seemed almost curious, approaching more boldly than before. And as they drew nearer, I could make out more details. Their suits weren't fabric, but appeared to be made of a single piece of metallic material that moved like liquid mercury. Their helmets were transparent, and inside I saw huge dark eyes that seemed to peer directly through me. Leonid made the first move, unspooling his snare as he approached the closest figure.

But before he could get within range, one of the creatures reached down to its side and withdrew what looked like a small metallic cylinder. Everything happened fast after that. The creature pointed the device at us, and suddenly the water itself seemed to come alive. A massive vortex formed around us, spinning with impossible force that drew me violently to my side and ripped my equipment from my body. Through the chaos, I could see the other divers being tossed through the water at a rate

human bodies were never meant to endure. Someone grabbed my arm, Mitri, and started pulling me towards the surface. But we'd been at depth too long and were ascending too quickly. The shift in pressure would kill us if we didn't reach the decompression chamber immediately. We broke the surface in chaos.

The support team was screaming, trying to help us from the water, but we were already crippled by the pain of decompression sickness. I struggled to gain my bearings, but Benanoff grabbed me and pulled me along, shouting through his mask that we needed to reach the chambers. But as we halved our distance to the vessel, we heard impossible shouts from the crew. One of our two decompression chambers had faltered

only minutes earlier. There was now only room for four of us. The other three would have to wait, for four of us. The other three would have to wait. And waiting meant certain death. I'll never forget what happened next. Baranov pushed me through the water towards the boat, told me I was the strongest swimmer. It was my duty to tell them what we saw. And I didn't even have time to look back. I just swam through the pain until I was hauled out of the water and into the life-saving chamber. And as three others piled in with me, the doors sealed with an excruciating hiss, sending everything to a pitch black, even darker than the depths below. FanDuel Casino's exclusive LiveDealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling, winning, which beats even the 27th best feeling saying I do.

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The others in there with me, Dmitri, Alexei, and Leonid, didn't say a word. We were all processing the impossible in our own ways. When they finally opened the chamber, Captain Volkov himself was waiting for us. His face was granite, but I already knew the truth. All three men who hadn't made it into the chamber were dead. The official report would later claim it was a training accident, equipment malfunction leading to rapid decompression. But we all knew what really happened. We'd seen it. Lived it. In a debrief session,

I told Volkov everything I could about the creature's appearance, their strange device, and the vortex that propelled us upward. He listened without expression, then handed me a document demanding absolute secrecy about what I'd witnessed. I signed it. All of us did. If we hadn't, we'd have spent the last 35 years in a labor camp if we were lucky. But that wasn't the end of it. Not for me, at least. As I was packing up to leave Lake Baikal for good, I was summoned to Volkov's office and informed that I, and I alone, was to remain here to join what he called a newly formed geological survey team.

So, I remained by the water, and soon found myself surrounded by a small team of military personnel, scientists, and two men from the KGB who never seemed to sleep. Dr. Lebedev, the head scientist, explained that he chose me personally because I had seen the creatures up close, and kept my composure while others panicked. He told me that the things I'd encountered had been under investigation since 1977, when a scientific submersible observed an unknown light source at the depth of 1400 meters. When the crew looked out their portholes, they allegedly saw something massive passing overhead, but the light was too intense to make out its shape. I listened quietly, considering

the implications of what this man was saying. Was something else… something intelligent? Living in the world's deepest lake? For weeks, we mapped the lake floor using sophisticated sonar, identifying unusual formations and anomalies. When the data pointed to something unusual in the deepest part of the lake, we began preparing for a submersible expedition. A submersible that I myself would help crew. And I won't lie to you, part of me was thrilled, fascinated at the notion of observing these strange creatures one more time.

But another part was filled with grave misgivings. Our descent took place in late August. Two sleek metal craft, each bright yellow with Pisces stincelled on their sides, were brought in. I myself was assigned to Pisces 7 alongside Dr. Lebedev and a pilot named Grigor. That morning, the surface of Baikal once again was like a mirror. Too calm to be real. The descent was agonizingly slow.

For hours we sank through increasingly dark waters, the temperature dropping steadily. Soon the darkness was absolute, and our powerful lights cut the black to reveal a landscape as alien as the surface of another planet. Strange formations rose from the lakebed, not natural rock formations, but structures that seemed almost deliberately placed. Some resembled archways while others looked like domes partially buried in sediment. I heard Dr. Lebedev quietly whispering to himself that this wasn't natural. This was construction. Then Grigor noted movement on the sonar. Three objects approaching from behind. And before we could react, our submersible

was bathed in a yellowish glow. And through the viewport, I saw them. Three of the same entities I'd seen earlier. And as they approached the submersible, they moved with what I can only describe as a profound sense of curiosity. One placed a hand on our viewport. A long, six-figured hand with webbing between the digits. Its face came close to the glass. And I found myself staring into large, pupil-less eyes that reflected our cabin light like mirrors. And in those eyes I saw intelligence, ancient and unfathomable.

Dr. Lebedev activated the external camera, and the entities immediately backed away, retreating into the dark. Then Lebedev cursed under his breath as the camera, and then the entire submersible went dark, its electronics inexplicably disabled. Then we all felt a sensation of movement. Not of descent, but a lateral motion, as if the submersible itself were being pulled through the water. And for the next twenty minutes or so, all we could do was wait in the dark as we were transported through the depths, moving ever closer to a distant glow. Soon that glow consumed everything around us. And as we came to a sudden halt, I looked outside to see a massive, pulsating orb rising slowly

from the lake bed. As it moved past us, it felt as though its light was all-consuming, as if it penetrated our very bodies. Then the orb settled above us, its glow increasing until it was impossible to look at. Then, it blinked out of existence, seemingly speeding up into the dark at impossible speed. Then we too began to rise. And as we did, our electrical systems slowly flickered back to life. But inexplicably and much to the dismay of Dr. Libydyev, our camera systems remained inoperable.

At approximately 500 meters, our sonar detected movements all around us, and through the viewport I could make out the silvery forms of at least six swimmers gesturing upwards as they heralded us towards the surface. Then they retreated, and we broke the water, nearly two kilometers from our starting point. The days that followed were a series of debriefs and interrogations. Since we had no photographic evidence, all we had were our own accounts. And though I expected our encounter to trigger an even larger scientific investigation, instead, the opposite happened. Equipment was packed away, records

were destroyed, and personnel were reassigned. I myself was sent to a naval base in Vladivostok, where I was promoted to instructor and given a stern warning to never discuss what I had seen. And in the years since, I've tried to make sense of what happened. Why would our government abandon such a monumental discovery? All I can think is about some strange moments from those interrogations. Suggestions that these entities of Lake Baikal may have always been there, maybe older than humanity itself. And that, I suspect, has left people terrified. Still, I wonder about those beings in their silver suits, living in glowing domes deep beneath the surface. Are they ancient visitors from another world? Or something else entirely, something beyond our understanding.

And they often wonder what's happening now, down in the cold, dark depths of the world's deepest lake. Are they watching us? Studying our world from their underwater sanctuary? I believe they are. And I believe they will continue. Long after we are gone. completely craveable hot honey sauce, it's a sweet heat repeat you don't wanna miss. Get your Hot Honey McCrispy today. Available for a limited time only at McDonald's.

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He did it, folks. The first of many that I'm sure are gonna be in this episode. There can be so many diving jokes. So first of all, right off the bat, Brian, I'm fascinated by this lake itself. I have never heard of it. I didn't realize that the deepest lake in the world was in Russia.

I thought it was like one of the Great Lakes or something. Funny you mentioned the Great Lakes actually. This one lake in Russia holds more water than all of the Great Lakes combined. No way. Yeah. Why was I not aware of this? It's not one of the biggest lakes by area.

Square by area. Gotcha. Yeah. But it is the oldest lake in the world. It's 25 million years old, and it is the oldest lake in the world. It's 25 million years old, and it is the deepest lake in the world. Wow. Which means it's nearly a mile deep. I'm astounded. A mile deep. I would never have thought. Okay, is there anything else about this lake before we get into this particular story that I should know about? Yeah, it's also pretty unique because it is very old, and it has this vast diversity of wildlife. There's thousands of plants and animals

that are only found in Lake Baikal, including this seal called the Nerpa seal. It's the smallest seal species and the only freshwater seal in the world, which is kind of neat. That is neat. And there's hydrothermal vents and springs apparently that kind of help foster all that life.

Yeah. And apparently also potentially fosters alien life, as we kind of explored in the story here, which is based on accounts and an alleged story that happened. And it also just so happens that Lake Baikal is kind of a supernatural hotspot in general, not only about what's in the lake, but there's rumors of a lake monster, of course, in the lake as all big lakes have, I guess. But there's also a whole bunch of sightings

of UFOs in the skies above and around that lake area over the years, and also unidentified submersible objects, kind of like what we encountered in the story. But lots of reports of people on the lake seeing lights skimming the surface, diving into the water, coming out of the water, et cetera. Wow. It sounds to me like we could spend a lot of time

at Lake Baikal. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. But of course, the most famous one is that 1982 encounter. Right. Our story. That was the story we did, yes. So clearly, McCloud has a geek out for geology,

which he wasn't aware of, so I've learned something about myself. Because here we are with an alien story, and I'm like, this leak! But let's submerge ourselves, pun intended, into our 1982 encounter of this story, that was this story. Did this story follow the actual account

or did you juice it up? It did, it did follow the account. The first half of the story is pretty much the account that's popularly known. The second half where they formed a special team and went down in submersibles, I kind of cribbed some other stories that have happened around Lake Baikal

to kind of put that together. But those were also actual stories, just a separate- Ironically, and we'll get into it, but have a little more credibility than the first story. Oh, okay. So, but 1982, the best known account of these lake Baikal swimmers, as they're kind of known, is seven Russian divers who worked for the Navy were doing some dive tests, training, whatever, an exercise. They encountered these silvery, three meter tall, that's nine feet tall people, it's very big, helmeted beings at a depth of 50 meters. So that is getting to

the depth where sunlight is approaching being no longer able to penetrate. And they saw these things, they went back up, they reported what they saw, and of course, the Russian government were like, here are some nets. Right. Go then. Go catch us an alien with a net. Yes, because that obviously works. So seven guys went down and had their nets, and they encountered them again.

And this time, I guess the aliens saw the nets or whatever, and one of them had this little canister on his belt that he pushed. And then this giant whirlpool-type vortex came out of nowhere, and they were able to manipulate the water in such a way that it basically thrust them at a really fast speed back up to the surface. And unfortunately, it's hard to tell whether there were two compression chambers and one of them broke or whether there just was not enough for all of them to begin with.

But only four of those seven made it into a decompression chamber and the other three allegedly died. And is this account a written account, an oral account? What's the source material for it? Okay. So there is not any government accounts of this, even though the guy who seems to have started the story or popularized the story says that it was based on government documents.

No one has ever seen them. Okay. So it's frankly unknown what ever happened after this one incident where the guys were thrust back to the surface and then three people died. It's unknown whether they started setting up teams and sending down submersibles and all this stuff. Gotcha. But this was first reported in a book

by a Russian ufologist. It's some guy named Professor Vladimir Azhazhah. Azhazhah. He is kind of known though for making questionable claims about aliens in Russia. Okay. So I don't know. He claims though that he says he heard this

from two dive instructors and that there were government documents to back it up. So this guy, maybe not the most credible source. Exactly. So on the whole though, there seems to be no real provenance of this story other than this guy who says, yeah, I kind of heard this. But you said that there was a little bit more to corroborate the submersibles. Yeah.

In 1977, there was an expedition from the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and they put down submersibles, Pisces II and VII. They were the same two that I ended up using in the second half of the story. Okay. And when these submersibles went down, one of them went down to the bottom of the lake, which is a mile down, basically. And when they were down there, they encountered this eerie yellow glow that kind of surrounded them. And allegedly, it's kind of unclear what actually might have happened, but something might have moved up and over them basically, but they couldn't make out the shape of it because the light was

just so bright. Now, mind you, you know, there are bioluminescent fish and things like that, but whatever this was was was apparently massive. And it just turned the entire pitch black sea to like bright light. And that is on the record as having happened. That written account exists. Yes. Gotcha. Yes.

I wonder if this all kind of flowed from that in a weird way. But so the moment when like, say, like he sees the long entity again and its face comes up. That was me embellishing a little and kind of merging those two stories together. Merging the two stories, gotcha. So let's get to the theories then and let's just start with completely normal explainable things. Okay. Do you have any thoughts on what this could be, if not some advanced race of water beings or aliens or anything like that?

What do you think? Well, let's start with the assumption that something was seen, some creature was seen or a light phenomenon was seen. So let's assume that there was actually a sighting. Yes. There's all sorts of interesting marine life that's quite long. I think there's a fish called a col colicanth, but maybe that doesn't live in freshwater.

Anyway, I could imagine there being some sort of actual fish like a sturgeon or I don't know, just something that was very long. There are giant sturgeon in this lake. I think I saw somewhere that they're like 25 or 30 feet long. Yeah. Which is horrifying. Terrifying. Terrifying. Because I don't like the water

because there's 30 foot creatures who are much more comfortable there than I am. There's also giant fish with meter wide jaws that are way bigger than the rest of their body. It sounds horrifying as well. Oh wow, in this lake? In this lake, yeah. Whoa.

That said though, from the description, these things sounded like the silveriness, the kind of helmet look. It doesn't seem very fish-like, generally speaking. There have been thoughts that these could be those seals, though. Do they get that big? They don't get that big. Or is it just like they were casting a shadow?

They don't necessarily cast a shadow, and I'd have a little bit of trouble stretching my mind to believe this, but these poor seals,, like, they can get trapped under the ice, you know, when the whole lake freezes, because this is Siberia, and when the lake thaws again, they're kind of just floating, or, you know, they're kind of just in the water, and they have these kind of white silvery bellies. Wait, like, bobbing dead or like...

Yeah, bobbing dead or potentially alive, if they saw them alive. They do have these kind of white silvery bellies that could, I guess, in some circumstance be mistaken for these. Maybe it was a sturgeon holding a silvery seal. I think we're grasping the straws here on this one because I feel like these guys are like divers

who are used to being in the water. And unless you're seeing these for like a split second, you would realize it's not a seal. But remember, the account is not from these divers. It's from some guy who's a ufologist who says he talked to some divers. Yes. If they aren't seals or fish,

I think we really only have two options, which are A, this is some kind of co-evolved species that branched off from humans or some other species at some point and is living in this lake and only this lake. Yeah. Well, that's the thing I was going to say about the height. The fact that they're three meters long and kind of wispy and thin tells me that they couldn't, they wouldn't be able to survive with that morphology on land,

which tells me that they either adapted to the water or evolved to live in the water, an environment which would support having a body like that. Yeah, and if we're talking evolution, I mean, the lake is 25 million years old. Put that in perspective, homo sapiens, our species, is 300,000 years old. Wow, yeah.

That's a long time that something could have branched off from Neanderthals or something super early or something else entirely. Right, right. And kind of done its own thing. A water ape. I guess so, yeah. But these ones are kind of silvery

and clearly seem to have some kind of technology if we're to believe any aspect of these accounts. Yeah. Because they have their suits and their little helmet type things and then their little cylinders that make the vortex. Yeah, there's so much, this is the thing about this story,

which it's like, even if there's not like very much like plausible evidence of some of this stuff, it's a really fun space for your imagination to go. Absolutely. And novel, not your typical like aliens visiting us from outer space. It's like the idea of these being like native terrestrial beings that have evolved on Earth and have always been on Earth is really cool. The idea of us not being the only like technologically sophisticated beings.

Although I think to become a technologically advanced civilization, you need numbers of brains and people doing things and experimenting that can't happen with a small population at the bottom of a lake. I agree. That would mean probably more likely it is aliens. But then there's kind of the, what if it's not like aliens who just come down there and visit sometimes, but aliens that came 25 million years ago or like millions and millions of years ago

and stayed there and have been evolving here on earth is kind of cool. But kind of like with Loch Ness, lakes, there's just such a weird allure to lakes. They're just the deep, the mystery of it all. Yeah. Why not have something cool in the lake like this? Yeah, and the fact that it's a space that we are not made for, but where there is so much volume, so much unexplored

territory that it really nibbles at that kind of adventurous spirit of humans to explore no more, but we can't. We're restricted by our biology. Matthew Feeney Absolutely. And that's what's so cool about deep stuff in general. Love it. So, listeners, if you have any theories about this or want to chat about it, hit us up on Instagram, at SightingsPod, or leave us a comment on Spotify. We love looking at those.

Matthew Feeney Or just broadly give us a review on Apple, telling us how you feel about all of it in general. Matthew Feeney Positive reviews on Apple. Positive reviews, yes. If you don't like it, just just leave us be. Okay, so Ryan, I think it's time for us to climb out of the abyss and rise to the surface. Oh, there it is again. And move on to our next exciting story. Where are we going next week? We got another listener story episode. It's the last week of the month. Wooo dog! These have been evolving in a really fun way. Oh yeah. We have had so many awesome stories come in. As a reminder, please send us yours.

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