Is there any truth that a monster really exists in a lake in Van, Turkey?”
Located just south of Mount Ararat, in Eastern Turkey, is a fridge fresh water body of water named Van Lake. The lake its self sits approximately 5,160 feet, more than one mile, above sea level, and was created during the Pleistocene era when volcanoes Sipan and Nemrut violently erupted creating a hardened magma wall in the Van basin. This newly formed wall blocked westward drainage to the Murat River and over time formed what is know known as Van Lake. One of the most unique bodies of water found on earth today, Van Lake’s tide levels rise tremendously every year, transforming peninsulas into islands and enriching the lakes waters with sodium carbonate and other salts which ordinarily would have been extracted by evaporation. Even more unique than the lake its self may be the resent eyewitness reports of what is now known as the Van Lake Monster. The Van Lake Monster first came to international attention in a Daily Telegraph article, which was dated November 2, 1995. The article read:
