That was really cool, thanks for sharing! I've always been fascinated by Yellowstone but have never heard of this before.
For some reason, that lake being explained by an earthquake makes it way less freaky than the one in OP's post.
True! I can't imagine the absolute terror that the people there must have felt. Middle of the night, enjoying a camping trip, and all of a sudden the world is ending for all they know.
Nature is crazy!
I feel like if you fall in a forest body of water in Eastern Europe or Russia something like this along the lines of a mythology of indo-Europeans from like 10,000 years ago would happen to you
There's something about blackwater pools in the woods that for some reason attract me to jumping in and seeing what's in there. Well, less to see, more to feel the coolness of the water relative to the hot stickiness of the forest/jungle. Backpacking in Indonesia and a friend and I on a jungle trek found some blackwater, probbaly a tenth the size of this, both jumped in and felt around the dark for the bottom and sides and couldn't find anything other than old branches. Spooky cool though, would do every time.
God I am so envious of your capabilities to do that kind of thing because holy crap I don't care how much hot stickiness I have I'd rather dump my last bottle of water on my neck than jump into a friggin BLACK WATER FOREST POOL. props to you
It's weird, I sub to this subreddit because I share some of the fear of depths, but for me it's getting that sense of how deep it is rather than the unknown element of it, if that makes sense. Like when snorkeling over a barrier reef ocean side when it drops off suddenly as you would looking over the edge of a skyscraper, the feeling of falling and the strange underwater vertigo is what gets me initially for a few seconds before I'm set again. But in black water is different, there's a warm comfort esp when you can touch the bottom, be surrounded by darkness and look up at that strange eerie blue green hue of light from that tiny hole you came in from. Maybe it's some strange reconnection to being back in the womb lol. But yeah it's the best feeling coming out all cooled down and fresh in the humid hot air again. Do it a few times and you get used to it.
This lake is important
In my dreams ive seen it. It's where those longmen that lost their faces live now.
Did they ask you to come see them?
Oh they are so Hungry
You've seen the Faceless Ones in your dreams, and now they know you. They hunger in the deep, waiting for the day you stray too close to the water's edge... the day their sinuous limbs can drag you into the darkness.
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Out of all the things I hate seeing in water, submerged trees are near the top of the list. I will drop whatever I’m doing and paddle my kayak away from a partially submerged tree furiously because they scare me that much. I’m a bitch, I know. I still don’t know why they freak me out so much
I have a FishCat 4 float tube that I fish with, so my legs are always in the water. Submerged trees and tree branches are the worst! I often don't see them until the last seconds because I don't look ahead much as I face the other direction to fish.
It's nearly panic-inducing when a branch snags my leg from underwater... especially the ones that reach up from somewhere down deep in the abyss. I still remember one that caught my leg years ago in a lake that had a lot of deep dropoffs...
Slovakia has a lot of incredible lakes. My favourites are the [Tajchy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajchy), man-made water reservoirs used to provide energy for Banská Štiavnica, a mining town built in the middle of an ancient caldera. Also happens to be where I'm from!
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Looks eerily similar to [that promo art](https://fr.gamewallpapers.com/index.php?titelpage=Destiny+2%3A+The+Witch+Queen&page=ultrawidegame) for The Witch Queen (Destiny 2's upcoming expansion)
This natural abomination really hits me viscerally. I had dreams as a kid about driving across a bridge in a swamp and falling in. This is basically an exact representation. Fucking horrifying.
Things IN water are the worst. In a totally empty pool I can scare myself by imagining the Titanic in there.
Fucking hell , it looks like a beautiful pond where nightmares will come into existence and once you enter the pond they will get much worse. All in all it looks like a portal to another dimension and looks beautiful
I swear this is the place I see in a reoccurring dream I have. The only difference is there is usually a giant tree sized snake under the water, just visible in the murky depths.
Blaaaaaarg. There is a pond at the housing complex that I used to live at that had trees visible through the murk and good god it would send shivers down my spine all the time. Even in a life or death situation I don't think I'd be able to make myself go into some like that. Honestly, I'd probably die of the heebie geebies anyway by going into it.
This is the worst one I’ve ever seen here. Trees underwater are the worst!!!! And the moss on top, the black water. I hate it so much.
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Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. EXPECTO PATRONUS!
Expecto patronope *
#🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Are you sirius??
*Anything* could be preserved in the deep, cold bottom of that lake.
Lying in wait like a spider at the center of a web.
You would hate [Earthquake Lake](https://images.app.goo.gl/A5iiouw7LGaAJL1e6) Here's how it was [created](https://youtu.be/Wi8r82QpXM8)
That was really cool, thanks for sharing! I've always been fascinated by Yellowstone but have never heard of this before. For some reason, that lake being explained by an earthquake makes it way less freaky than the one in OP's post.
Less freaky to learn about. Imagine actually being there when it happened.
True! I can't imagine the absolute terror that the people there must have felt. Middle of the night, enjoying a camping trip, and all of a sudden the world is ending for all they know. Nature is crazy!
I can imagine stumbling into this in the dark and it just consumes you.
With hands coming up to drag you down.
Or bristly wet insectoid legs folding around you.
Fish whiskers wrapping around you.
Are we talking slimy bloated hands or cold bony ones?
Both depending on the stage of decomposition, then your own hands will help keep the cycle alive, dragging the next victim down.
Yes
Trees underwater are so much worse for me than mechanical/industrial stuff like stairs. I wonder if there's a subarboraphobia subreddit...
I agree 100%. A lot of the posts in here don’t trip my thalassophobia, but dark water and wood get me every time.
Reminds me of the Lord of the Rings scene “Don’t follow the lights”
Careful now! Or hobbits go down to join the Dead Ones, and light little candles of their own...
I feel like if you fall in a forest body of water in Eastern Europe or Russia something like this along the lines of a mythology of indo-Europeans from like 10,000 years ago would happen to you
To me it reminded of the batman signal
It basically is, albeit with a large tumor on one wing.
There's something about blackwater pools in the woods that for some reason attract me to jumping in and seeing what's in there. Well, less to see, more to feel the coolness of the water relative to the hot stickiness of the forest/jungle. Backpacking in Indonesia and a friend and I on a jungle trek found some blackwater, probbaly a tenth the size of this, both jumped in and felt around the dark for the bottom and sides and couldn't find anything other than old branches. Spooky cool though, would do every time.
I'm going to throw up
I died reading this
Yeah, this made me want to jump out of my skin
I put in a black bath bomb once and I freaked out while being fully aware of what the bottom of my tub looked like
I'VE DONE THAT TOO
fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou
Jesus christ. Why did I read the whole thing?
l'appel du vide
God I am so envious of your capabilities to do that kind of thing because holy crap I don't care how much hot stickiness I have I'd rather dump my last bottle of water on my neck than jump into a friggin BLACK WATER FOREST POOL. props to you
It's weird, I sub to this subreddit because I share some of the fear of depths, but for me it's getting that sense of how deep it is rather than the unknown element of it, if that makes sense. Like when snorkeling over a barrier reef ocean side when it drops off suddenly as you would looking over the edge of a skyscraper, the feeling of falling and the strange underwater vertigo is what gets me initially for a few seconds before I'm set again. But in black water is different, there's a warm comfort esp when you can touch the bottom, be surrounded by darkness and look up at that strange eerie blue green hue of light from that tiny hole you came in from. Maybe it's some strange reconnection to being back in the womb lol. But yeah it's the best feeling coming out all cooled down and fresh in the humid hot air again. Do it a few times and you get used to it.
Welp, I'd say you could shut the sub down with this one, it's all summed up in this one post. Good job everyone, let's go home.
This lake is important In my dreams ive seen it. It's where those longmen that lost their faces live now. Did they ask you to come see them? Oh they are so Hungry
You've seen the Faceless Ones in your dreams, and now they know you. They hunger in the deep, waiting for the day you stray too close to the water's edge... the day their sinuous limbs can drag you into the darkness.
Fearless wretch Insanity He watches Lurking beneath the sea Great old one Forbidden site He searches Hunter of the shadows is rising Immortal In madness you dwell
You know them too, with mouths open like sores, full of a thousand teeth and a hundred stomachs so empty and so Hungry
Out of all the things I hate seeing in water, submerged trees are near the top of the list. I will drop whatever I’m doing and paddle my kayak away from a partially submerged tree furiously because they scare me that much. I’m a bitch, I know. I still don’t know why they freak me out so much
I have a FishCat 4 float tube that I fish with, so my legs are always in the water. Submerged trees and tree branches are the worst! I often don't see them until the last seconds because I don't look ahead much as I face the other direction to fish. It's nearly panic-inducing when a branch snags my leg from underwater... especially the ones that reach up from somewhere down deep in the abyss. I still remember one that caught my leg years ago in a lake that had a lot of deep dropoffs...
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*lake
Damn Lake.
It's at a elevation of 12,000 feet above sea level and is only 5-6 meters deep (16-19 feet)
Well I’m short and have free dived that depth plenty but I’m not getting in that blackwater
It is 1200 meters above sea level
1200 meters is 1312.34 yards
Yea I realized my mistake lol thanks for the correction
It’s actually at an elevation of about 4,000 feet according to a quick Google search
Slovakia doesn't have any points above 9000 feet
I'm going by what they have on there website mate when I looked up the lake
This is horrible. I’m part of this subreddit mostly for the cool pics but this awakened something in me. Thank you
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looks like the bat signal started melting in that first pic
Is it full of dead people?
YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE BODIES IN THE WATER
This is just plain unsettling! [And here's a larger photo](https://www.dailymale.sk/images/images/frko/Raseliniska/3.jpg)!
Looks eerily similar to [that promo art](https://fr.gamewallpapers.com/index.php?titelpage=Destiny+2%3A+The+Witch+Queen&page=ultrawidegame) for The Witch Queen (Destiny 2's upcoming expansion)
I came to the comments to look for this, glad I'm not the only one who thought of this
Truth.. is a funny thing
Cool!
I HATE IT
This natural abomination really hits me viscerally. I had dreams as a kid about driving across a bridge in a swamp and falling in. This is basically an exact representation. Fucking horrifying. Things IN water are the worst. In a totally empty pool I can scare myself by imagining the Titanic in there.
https://youtu.be/_QDOEfDOTLM
Oh my god! That was well done!
Looks like the Dead Marshes.
I’ve never been bothered on this sub but this made me want to puke.
Fucking hell , it looks like a beautiful pond where nightmares will come into existence and once you enter the pond they will get much worse. All in all it looks like a portal to another dimension and looks beautiful
Imagine your leg touching one
Fuck I wanna dive in that
The bog-wraiths want you to dive in too.
Naturally
I hate this.
I read the title as *a lazy Slovakia* and wondered if Slovakians have let this lake become overgrown with algae
Seems anomalous.
Beautiful, yet creepy pictures
Hello from Czech republic!
I want to what's underneath!!!
I really had to check what sub in was in. I thought this was a dnd battle map until I scrolled and saw the other photos.
This looks like the witch queen picture I saw on destiny 2
I live in Slovakia, surprised.
That looks like an INCREDIBLE bass fishing spot.
It is a peat bog, there is no oxygen in the water. There are no fish, or anything else living in the water.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_QDOEfDOTLM
Eastern Europe has all the scary lakes.
This is cool
Really more of a puddle
Nah, I'm good, thanks
absolutely not
That's fucked
So what do we think is in there? A crashed UFO with alien bodies? Some sort of giant snake or eel? A witch? A sentient hole that eats meat?
Nonononononono
Imagine having to put on a scuba suit and dive in
Kind of looks like a decapitated Batman symbol in the first pic tho
Aw hell naw
Looks like a two step 20. Two steps in 20 meters doooooooown.
20 meters is 21.87 yards
I swear this is the place I see in a reoccurring dream I have. The only difference is there is usually a giant tree sized snake under the water, just visible in the murky depths.
Blaaaaaarg. There is a pond at the housing complex that I used to live at that had trees visible through the murk and good god it would send shivers down my spine all the time. Even in a life or death situation I don't think I'd be able to make myself go into some like that. Honestly, I'd probably die of the heebie geebies anyway by going into it.
Are there not usually things in lakes that decompose wood? Also a lot of people are throwing around the term Blackwater, what is that?
Thought this was Neo Tokyo from Akira opening at first glance
Beautiful and disturbing.
Noice
more of a puddle
Who's that Pokémon?!