Lake Baikal
Also: Baikal divers story
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Lake Baikal shoreline
Northwestern Olkhon Island capes, viewed from Cape Sagan-Khushun, September 2015. Shoreline context.
© Vyacheslav Argenberg ↗CC BY 4.0Licence terms ↗Resized and WebP-converted for display; content unchanged.Jesse Michels · 1:15:50
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA reported 1982 encounter with tall underwater figures, transmitted through named intermediaries and later retellings. The acquired 1993 article does not include original diver testimony, casualty records or a reproduced military order. It establishes no fixed base or precise dive site.
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Where the pin is
53.5000, 108.0000 region
Broad lake-context marker retained from the registry; no verified encounter coordinate was acquired.
Siberia, Russia
What is claimed
Michels recounts the lore that Soviet divers in 1982 went down in Lake Baikal to look for something and met tall humanoid figures.
- 1:15:50 “There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg · Jesse Michels ▶
Do you know the story of like Soviet divers going down to like look for something and they get petr- like they meet these tall tall human- I mean, it's uh interesting. When was that? In '82. >> Yeah.
- 1:15:50 “There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg · Jesse Michels ▶
Mentioned in the corpus
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“There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg 15 November 2025
- 1:15:50 ▶ Jesse Michels
Do you know the story of like Soviet divers going down to like look for something and they get petr- like they meet these tall tall human- I mean, it's uh interesting. When was that? In '82. >> Yeah.
- 1:15:50 ▶ Jesse Michels
Named in 1 upload (automatic name matching, 1 mention)
On the map
Lake Baikal. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- Lake Baikal — Wikipedia
- 1:15:50 “There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg · Jesse Michels ▶
Do you know the story of like Soviet divers going down to like look for something and they get petr- like they meet these tall tall human- I mean, it's uh interesting. When was that? In '82. >> Yeah.
- Paul Stonehill — Soviet Underwater Mysteries, UFO Encounters 1(7), 1993, pp.7–8,18
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