When we hear the word “lake”, a picture appears in our imagination - beautiful place for recreation, where you can swim and fish. However, this is not always the case. Some lakes inspire fear and horror. And there are reasons for this.
Lake Pustoe (Russia)
Its location is the Kuznetsk Alatau region located in Western Siberia. Lake Pustoe is a fresh and environmentally friendly reservoir of continental origin, because it completely lacks chemical substances. Many scientists have repeatedly conducted studies of water from the lake, which have never confirmed the presence of any toxic components in it.
The lake has clean water, which is suitable for drinking and resembles champagne, since it is dominated by completely safe bubbles of natural gases. However, researchers were unable to determine the reason why there was no fish in the lake.
In the vicinity of Lake Empty there has never been environmental disasters and emergency technical incidents that pollute the reservoir. The chemical composition of its water does not differ from the nearest reservoirs of the reserve, which are distinguished by an abundance of fish resources. Moreover, the reservoir feeds several fresh, clean reservoirs in the vicinity; the fact that there is fish in them will add special mystery to what is happening in these dreams.
There have been several attempts to introduce unpretentious fish species such as pike, perch and crucian carp into the reservoir. Each of them ended in failure, the fish died, aquatic plants rotten. And today there is no grass or birds on the banks of the reservoir, there are no fish or fry in the water, the lake guards its mysteries.
Why are there no fish in the lake?
Samples from the Kuznetsk reservoir were studied by chemists from the USA, Great Britain and Germany. However, no one was able to put forward a sensible version explaining the lack of fish in the reservoir. Scientists are not yet able to answer the questions of ordinary people about what is happening to the Kuznetsk reservoir.
However, scientists repeat attempts to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Empty Lake with enviable frequency. Visit the shores unusual lake there are many people interested, tourists come here and stay overnight. Some of them dream of touching the mystery of nature and unraveling it.
Lake of Death (Italy)
Our world is amazing and beautiful, its nature can be endlessly admired and enjoyed. But besides this, there are places on our Earth that sometimes lead us to bewilderment. Among such places is the Lake of Death on the island of Sicily. This lake can be considered one of the phenomena and unique natural phenomena. The name itself suggests that this lake is deadly for all living things. Any living organism that gets into this lake will inevitably die.
This lake is the most dangerous on our planet. The lake is absolutely lifeless and there are no living organisms in it. The shores of the lake are deserted and lifeless; nothing grows here. Everything is connected with the fact that any Living being, which falls into aquatic environment, dies immediately. If a person decides to swim in this lake, he will literally dissolve in the lake in a few minutes.
When information about this place appeared in the scientific world, a scientific expedition was immediately sent there to study this phenomenon. The lake revealed its secrets with great difficulty. Water analyzes showed that the lake’s aquatic environment contains a large amount of concentrated sulfuric acid. Scientists were not immediately able to figure out where the sulfuric acid comes from in the lake. Scientists have put forward several hypotheses about this.
The first hypothesis stated that at the bottom of the lake there are rocks that, when washed away by water, become enriched with acid. But further study of the lake showed that at the bottom of the lake there are two sources that release concentrated sulfuric acid into the lake’s water environment. This explains the circumstance why any organic matter.
Dead Lake (Kazakhstan)
There is an anomalous lake in Kazakhstan that attracts the attention of many people. It is located in the Taldykurgan region, the village of Gerasimovka. Its dimensions are not large, only 100x60 meters. This body of water is called Dead. The fact is that there is nothing in the lake, neither algae nor fish. The water there is unusually icy.
Low temperature There is water left even when there is intense sunshine outside. People drown there all the time. For some unknown reason, scuba divers begin to choke after three minutes of diving. Locals do not advise anyone to go there, and they themselves avoid this anomalous place.
Blue Lake (Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia)
Blue karst abyss in Kabardino-Balkaria. Not a single river or stream flows into this lake, although it loses up to 70 million liters of water every day, but its volume and depth do not change at all. The blue color of the lake is due to the high content of hydrogen sulfide in the water. There are no fish here at all.
What makes this lake creepy is the fact that no one has been able to figure out its depth. The fact is that the bottom consists of an extensive system of caves. Researchers have still not been able to figure out what it is lowest point this karst lake. It is believed that under the Blue Lake is the largest system of underwater caves in the world.
Boiling Lake (Dominican Republic)
The name speaks for itself. Located in Dominica, the beautiful Caribbean, this lake is actually the second largest natural hot spring on the ground. The temperature of the water in the boiling lake reaches 90 degrees Celsius and there is hardly anyone who wants to test the temperature of the source on their own skin. Just look at the photographs and it becomes clear that the water here is practically boiling. The temperature cannot be regulated because it is the result of a crack in the bottom of the lake through which hot lava erupts.
Lake Powell (USA)
Despite its common name (Horseshoe), located near the town of Mammoth Lakes, Lake Powell is a terrifying killer. The city of Mammoth Lakes was built on top of an active volcano, which is not the best location. However, for many years the lake was considered safe. But about 20 years ago, the trees around Horseshoe suddenly began to dry out and die.
After ruling out all possible diseases, scientists decided that the trees were suffocating from excessive levels carbon dioxide, slowly seeping through the earth from underground chambers of cooling magma. In 2006, three tourists took refuge in a cave near the lake and suffocated from carbon dioxide.
Lake Karachay (Russia)
Located in beautiful Ural mountains Russia, this dark blue lake is one of the most dangerous bodies of water in the world. During a secret government project, the lake was used as a dumping ground for many years beginning in 1951. radioactive waste.
This place is so toxic that a 5-minute visit can make a person sick, and a longer visit of an hour is guaranteed to be fatal. During a drought in 1961, the wind carried toxic dust that affected 500,000 people - a tragedy comparable to atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima. It is definitely one of the most polluted places on Earth.
Lake Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Lake Michigan (Canada)
Of the five Great Lakes on the border of Canada and the United States, Lake Michigan is the deadliest. The warm, attractive lake is a popular holiday destination for many tourists, despite its dangerous underwater currents, which claim at least several lives every year.
The shape of Lake Michigan makes it particularly susceptible to dangerous currents that arise spontaneously and abruptly. The lake becomes more dangerous in the fall, October and November, when sudden and significant changes in water and air temperatures occur. The height of the waves can reach several meters.
Mono Lake (USA)
One of the most developed ecosystems in the world, Mono Lake is located in the county of the same name in California. This ancient salt lake has no fish, but trillions of bacteria and small algae thrive in it. unique waters. Up until 1941 this is amazing beautiful lake was healthy and strong. But Los Angeles, which was just beginning its giant growth spurt, stepped in. The city drained the tributaries of the lake, which began to dry up.
This is a scandalous destruction natural resources continued for almost 50 years and when it was stopped in 1990, Mono Lake had already lost half its volume and its salinity had doubled. Mono has become a toxic alkaline lake filled with carbonates, chlorides and sulfates. Los Angeles has decided to correct its mistake, but the restoration project will take decades.
Lake Manoun (Cameroon)
Lake Nyos (Cameroon)
Natron (Tanzania)
Lake Natron in Tanzania not only kills its inhabitants, but also mummifies their bodies. On the shores of the lake there are mummified flamingos, small birds, the bats. The creepiest thing is that the victims freeze in natural poses with their heads raised. It was as if they froze for a moment and remained that way forever. The water in the lake is bright red due to the microorganisms living in it, closer to the shore it is already orange, and in some places it is a normal color.
The evaporation of the lake repels large predators, and the absence natural enemies attracts great amount birds and small animals. They live on the banks of the Natron, reproduce, and after death they are mummified. A large number of hydrogen contained in water and increased alkalinity promote the release of soda, salt and lime. They prevent the remains of the inhabitants of the lake from decomposing.
There are few things as fresh and soothing as the clear water of a lake. Beautiful lakes delight and beckon, and the thrill of diving into deep, calm water is incomparable to anything in the world. But just as there are many beautiful, seductive gifts of nature in the world, there are just as many lakes representing mortal danger. This danger lies in creatures hiding in the depths, in poisonous gases and radiation, and other harmful factors. Sometimes such lakes appear due to human fault, but often they are the result of the work of Mother Nature. I present to you a selection of the most dangerous lakes in the world.
Boiling Lake
The name speaks for itself. Located in Dominica, a beautiful Caribbean island, this lake is actually the second largest natural hot spring on earth. The temperature of the water in the boiling lake reaches 90 degrees Celsius and there is hardly anyone who wants to test the temperature of the source on their own skin. Just look at the photographs and it becomes clear that the water here is practically boiling. The temperature cannot be regulated because it is the result of a crack in the bottom of the lake through which hot lava erupts.
Lake Powell
Despite its common name (Horseshoe), located near the town of Mammoth Lakes, Lake Powell is a terrifying killer. The city of Mammoth Lakes was built on top of an active volcano, which is not the best location. However, for many years the lake was considered safe. But about 20 years ago, the trees around Horseshoe suddenly began to dry out and die. After ruling out all possible diseases, scientists decided that the trees were being suffocated by excessive levels of carbon dioxide slowly seeping through the ground from underground chambers of cooling magma. In 2006, three tourists took refuge in a cave near the lake and suffocated from carbon dioxide.
Lake Karachay
Located in Russia's beautiful Ural Mountains, this deep blue lake is one of the most dangerous bodies of water in the world. During a secret government project, the lake was used as a dump site for radioactive waste for many years beginning in 1951. This place is so toxic that a 5-minute visit can make a person sick, and a longer visit of an hour is guaranteed to be fatal. During a drought in 1961, the wind carried toxic dust that affected 500,000 people - a tragedy comparable to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is definitely one of the most polluted places on Earth.
Lake Kivu
This lake is located on the border between Democratic Republic Congo and Rwanda, with large layers of carbon dioxide at the base of the volcanic rock, as well as 55 billion cubic meters methane at the bottom. This explosive combination makes Lake Kivu the deadliest of the world's three explosive lakes. Any earthquake or volcanic activity could pose a lethal threat to the 2 million people living in this region. They can die from both methane explosions and carbon dioxide suffocation.
Lake Michigan
Of the five Great Lakes on the border of Canada and the United States, Lake Michigan is the deadliest. The warm, attractive lake is a popular holiday destination for many tourists, despite its dangerous underwater currents, which claim at least several lives every year. The shape of Lake Michigan makes it particularly susceptible to dangerous currents that arise spontaneously and abruptly. The lake becomes more dangerous in the fall, October and November, when sudden and significant changes in water and air temperatures occur. The height of the waves can reach several meters.
Mono Lake
One of the most developed ecosystems in the world, Mono Lake is located in the county of the same name in California. This ancient salt lake has no fish, but trillions of bacteria and small algae thrive in its unique waters. Until 1941 this strikingly beautiful lake was healthy and strong. But Los Angeles, which was just beginning its giant growth spurt, stepped in. The city drained the tributaries of the lake, which began to dry up. This scandalous destruction of natural resources continued for almost 50 years and when it was stopped in 1990, Mono Lake had already lost half its volume and its salinity had doubled. Mono has become a toxic alkaline lake filled with carbonates, chlorides and sulfates. Los Angeles has decided to correct its mistake, but the restoration project will take decades.
Lake Manun
Located in the Oku Volcanic Field in Cameroon, Lake Monoun appears to be a completely normal body of water. But its appearance is deceiving, as it is one of three explosive lakes on earth. In 1984, Monun exploded without warning, releasing a cloud of carbon dioxide and killing 37 people. Twelve of the dead were riding in a truck and stopped to watch the aftermath of the explosion. It was at this moment that the lethal gas did its job.
Lake Nyos
In 1986, Lake Nyos, located just 100 kilometers from Lake Monun, exploded following a magma eruption and released carbon dioxide, converting the water into carbonic acid. As a result of the massive landslide, the lake suddenly released a giant cloud of carbon dioxide, killing thousands of people and animals in local towns and villages. The tragedy was the first known major suffocation caused by natural phenomenon. The lake continues to pose a threat because its natural wall is fragile and even the slightest earthquake can destroy it.
Lake of the Ozarks
While the Lake of the Ozarks may seem like a serene getaway with cool breezes and chirping birds, it's actually quite the opposite. Without any water protection, large speeding boats and cruisers zip around the area at high speeds, posing a deadly threat to smaller boats and swimmers. Accidents occur here every year. fatal. To make matters worse, E. coli colonies have been found here, partly due to a local restaurant dumping wastewater into the lake. Lake of the Ozarks is ranked as the third most dangerous waterway in America, behind Atlantic Ocean and the Colorado River.
The channel of the popular St. Petersburg blogger Arslan Valeev has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. The 32-year-old man talked in his public about big wild cats and exotic reptiles. Viewers could see how Arslan walks a puma cub, or how a cobra eats white mouse. And the other day, subscribers to the public had to witness the death of a blogger. Valeev died in front of thousands of spectators during a live broadcast after being bitten by one of the most poisonous snakes on the ground, black mamba. For more than a day, doctors fought for the man’s life, but they could not save him.
Black mamba bite
Blogger Arslan Valeev became known to the public thanks to his channel about the life of exotic animals. The 32-year-old St. Petersburg resident told subscribers about big wild cats and poisonous snakes and showed their habits and habits. In the video, Valeev played with a puma cub, stroked a lynx and deftly handled boa constrictors and pythons, unraveling a tangle of snakes and distributing them in their places.The blogger's live broadcasts were the most popular. On the night of September 23, Valeev again decided to go live with one of his favorite poisonous snakes - the black mamba. Arslan, as always, turned on the camera and went to take the snake out of the terrarium to move it to a special Plastic container for online broadcasts. The blogger has done this many times, but now something has gone wrong. When Arslan took the snake in his hands, it suddenly bit him. The man returned to the computer, showing a bite mark.
The blogger could no longer call an ambulance - his hands were numb.
"I can't believe this is happening to me"
Some viewers at first decided that Valeev was joking on them, but the “prank” dragged on too long. Arslan was getting worse every second. At the same time, the blogger realized the tragedy of the situation, because he himself is an expert in keeping poisonous snakes with 20 years of experience.
When bitten by a black mamba medical care must be provided immediately. With every second lost, a person's chances of survival decrease. However, Arslan did not stop broadcasting and continued to communicate with viewers, asking them to contact his wife. “I’ll just stay with you a little,” said Valeev. “I can’t even believe that this is happening to me.” Tell Katya that I loved her very much. If she manages to drive up to me and see me, I would be glad. In fact, I'm already dying. Farewell".
Frightened viewers called an ambulance for the blogger. Valeev found the strength to go outside and wait there for the doctors to arrive. Arslan was urgently hospitalized. Doctors put the man into an artificial coma and fought for his life for more than a day, but they were unable to save the blogger. On the afternoon of September 25, Arslan Valeev died.
What will happen to the channel?
Now the fatal broadcast has already been deleted from the network, but viewers still cannot forget this last recording of Valeev. “His channel gave so much positivity!”, “Looks like a bad dream”, “How loved one lost,” viewers write on social networks.The blogger's pets are under supervision. What will happen to Valeev’s projects is still unknown. It is possible that the channel about exotic animals will continue to be run by friends of the deceased man.
“On behalf of the immediate family, as well as the administration of Arslan Valeev’s resources, we express our deepest gratitude to all those who sincerely empathized during this difficult period and brought words of support to loved ones from Arslan’s social circle,” it is written on official page community "BobCat TV / Wild cats". - There are many questions about future fate resources, and we understand your concerns in this regard. On this moment There is no definite answer, but we, as Arslan’s mother, Katya and the absolute majority of viewers and subscribers, would like further development those projects that were part of life for Arslan.”
The incident with Valeev was not the first in a number of tragic cases involving exotic animal specialists. Thus, in 2006, the famous “crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin died from a blow to the chest from a poisonous stingray. The man's death was caught on film: the last moments of the Australian's life were filmed by a cameraman who was swimming behind him.
Russian Arslan Valeev, known to YouTube visitors for his broadcasts about animals, died from a poisonous snake bite. This was reported on the video blogger’s page. While there are suggestions that in this way Arslan Valeev wanted to attract attention and commit suicide.
Arslan Valeev is a Russian video blogger from St. Petersburg, the author of popular channels on Russian-language YouTube: "Private Exotarium"- on the popularization of terrarium animals (snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, amphibians, spiders, scorpions) and BobCat TV - about lynxes and other exotic animals. Arslan hosted the second channel together with his wife Ekaterina Valeeva (Pyatyzhkina).
On Saturday, September 23, during a live broadcast, Arslan Valeev talked about his recent separation from his wife and talked about death. For some time he disappeared from the camera's field of view, and when he returned, he said that he had been bitten by a poisonous snake - a black mamba. Next, the blogger dictated his wife’s number and asked to call her. After some time, Valeev lost consciousness in live.
While there are suggestions that in this way Arslan Valeev wanted to attract attention and commit suicide. When he lost consciousness, subscribers to his channel called an ambulance, and the blogger was hospitalized. Unfortunately, around noon on September 25, he died without regaining consciousness. St. Petersburg Research Institute of Emergency Care named after. I. I. Dzhanelidze confirmed the death of Valeev.
The tragic event, as it turns out, was preceded by a major quarrel with his wife. According to one version, in Lately Valeev was very worried about the separation from his wife Ekaterina (they have not lived together for more than a year).
Two days before the tragedy, the young people filed an application for divorce with the registry office. The initiator was Catherine - allegedly Arslan raised his hand against her. The video blogger accused his wife of cheating and then allegedly attacked her.
Ekaterina reported the attack on Instagram, posting a photo and a medical examination.
Later, Valeev publicly apologized to his wife, but the reunion did not take place.
According to friends, on the night of September 23, the video blogger was slightly drunk. He went live, dictated Catherine’s phone number and stated that he would be glad to see her if she managed to arrive before his death. The young man announced that he was dying and said goodbye to everyone.
The first and only call to the ambulance in Vsevolzhsk (this is where Valeev lived) was registered on September 23 at 1.18. A certain girl called from the blogger's number. She introduced herself as a friend and asked the 03 doctors to urgently come to the house of her friend, who had been attacked by a snake. The young man, according to her, was in an inadequate state.
The doctors were about to rush to the call when the girl called back and canceled the call without explanation. Valeev, after consulting with friends, decided to get to the hospital on his own.
Friends took the blogger to the leading hospital in St. Petersburg - the Emergency Research Institute named after. I. I. Dzhanelidze. The patient was admitted to the toxic intensive care unit. Doctors fought for the patient’s life, but at 11:08 am on September 25, he died.
Arslan Valeev - 32-year-old video blogger from the city of Vsevolozhsk Leningrad region known for his public page about cats BobCat TV and video channel about snakes "Exotarium". During another experiment, he died from a snake bite.
The tragedy occurred on September 23, when Arslan took out a black mamba and a poisonous African snake bit him.
Several versions of the tragedy are widespread on the Internet. According to one of them, published by the blogger’s friends on social networks, Arslan announced on his Instagram stream night broadcast on YouTube with one of his favorite snakes - the mamba. Turning on the camera, as he regularly did before, he went to remove the snake from the terrarium to move it into a plastic container used for broadcasting. In the process of manipulating the snake, the bite was received.
Being a specialist in the field of terrariums and keeping venomous snakes with twenty years of experience, Arslan realized what had happened and left a message to his wife Ekaterina, and also asked the spectators who were eyewitnesses to contact her by phone, as his hands began to quickly go numb. The blogger himself was unable to call an ambulance due to the rapid numbness of his limbs. He then went outside, waiting for help to arrive.
According to another version, according to the portal “Morning. ru”, the snake “took revenge” on the deceased for his beaten wife. We quote: as the media and social network users write with reference to his wife Ekaterina Pytyazhkina, Valeev allegedly beat her out of jealousy, and when she left him, he pursued her.
Lenta.ru reports that the incident was preceded by another loud quarrel between Valeev and his ex-wife due to jealousy. The girl reported on her Instagram about the attack: the blogger tracked her down and beat her, as evidenced by the medical documents posted by her ex-wife.
After the ex-wife’s statement, instead of posts about cats, revealing posts about the infidelities of the blogger’s ex-wife began to appear on the BobCat TV public page. The negative reaction of subscribers forced Valeev to withdraw the accusations of infidelity and publicly apologize.
Nevertheless, the ex-wife decided not to return to Valeev. Then, during his last stream, in front of thousands of viewers, he provoked a deadly snake to sting his hand.
According to many sources, the tragic video has already been deleted, but we managed to find a small fragment:
Law enforcement agencies, together with specialists, are deciding what to do with the poisonous snakes that remained in a private house in Vsevolozhsk after the death of herpetologist blogger Arslan Valeev. You need to attach almost 300 snakes, two lynxes and a dog. Doctors were unable to save a young man after being bitten by a black mamba. Ambulance subscribers called him. Maria Marchenko restored the details of this story.
He died live, in front of thousands of subscribers. The famous St. Petersburg blogger Arslan Valeev, the creator of two TV channels about exotic animals, got in touch as usual at night. I wanted to show the black mamba. So he comes back and shows... his finger, with a wound from a snake bite. He asks to call his ex-wife.
The blogger's subscribers called the emergency room. At the Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, doctors introduced young man into an induced coma, they fought for his life for more than a day. But they couldn't help. There was no chance of salvation, says herpetologist Vladimir Cherlin.
Vladimir Cherlin,candidate biological sciences, herpetologist:“She’s very aggressive, very fast. And with incredibly powerful poison. In general, serums exist, but not here. Because they don’t live with us.”
Arslan Valeev lived with two black mambas at once. And also cobras, vipers, lynx, puma and other animals. The blogger talked about their care, habits and character on his YouTube channels. I often took risks for the sake of subscribers’ likes. Drank a cocktail of venom from five cobras, caught vipers with bare hands, and even bit the black mamba by the tail.
Arslan showed interest in reptiles since childhood. At the age of eight he asked his father to buy him a snake. My parents allowed me to have fish. But the young man dreamed of other pets.
Maria Marchenko, correspondent:"Even in Leningrad Zoo, where there are all conditions for this, they do not keep poisonous snakes. Arslan Valeev worked in this very department six years ago, dealing with harmless pythons and lizards. But in his house in Vsevolozhsk, the young man collected a whole collection of deadly animals.”
Poisonous snakes - the monocle cobra and the African viper - bit him more than once, and also on live television. The young man provided first aid to himself. Then I went to the hospital. Why this time Arslan simply sat in front of the computer and waited for death, his friends do not understand.
What it was, a fatal mistake or suicide, remains to be determined by investigators. According to friends, Arslan was having a hard time with his divorce from his wife Katya, who shared his passion for snakes.
The young man's friends have already promised that his business - two YouTube channels - will live on. But what will happen to Arslan’s dangerous home zoo is still unknown.
Russian video blogger Arslan Valeev died from a black mamba bite on September 25. This was reported on his BobCat TV page.
We express sincere condolences to Arslan's family and friends at this very difficult moment for all of us! He left approximately at noon, but his Love will remain in our hearts forever!, wrote the group administrator Andrey Derevyankin.
Bite live
Live on his channel, the blogger set a poisonous snake on himself. After the bite, he was immediately hospitalized. Valeev's subscribers called the ambulance.
All these events took place on September 23. After poisonous bite the blogger fell into a coma and died two days later without regaining consciousness.
The recording of this stream has already disappeared from the YouTube channel. However, the shocking video is still available online. It shows Arslan sitting in a semi-fainting state, but still talking to the audience. He dictates his ex-wife's phone number.
This is Katya's phone. If someone gets through to her and she has time to drive up to me and at least see me... I would be glad,” the blogger can barely find the words, rolling his eyes. - In fact, I’m already dying... But Katya would be glad to see... How she’s shaking.
It is known that the reckless act was preceded by a loud quarrel with ex-wife Ekaterina Pytyazhkina.
Back in August, a woman said on her Instagram page that a blogger, who allegedly caught her cheating, broke into her apartment and beat her. The girl also published a certificate from the hospital with a diagnosis of concussion on social networks.
Then, however, Valeev apologized sincerely, but Catherine did not return to him. It was then that the blogger set a poisonous snake on himself during a stream.
It is known that Arslan had four lynxes living at home. As his fellow members of the public say, the animals are now under “close supervision.”
Sensitive and risky
Arslan Valeev was not just a popular blogger, but also a major expert on poisonous snakes in the Northern capital. In any case, this is how it was recommended in several major veterinary clinics cities on the Neva. Previously, he was a zootechnician at the exotarium of the Leningrad Zoo.
His close friend Polina Maratkanova, with whom they once began working together at the Leningrad Zoo in the exotarium department, spoke of Arslan as an excellent specialist and expert in his field.
“He was not only in our city, he was one of the best in our country,” she said. He is such a very risky guy, he was not afraid of anything. But he was a very sincere person, hospitable. I corresponded with him literally last week. It's terrible that this happened to him. Reptiles were his life. He was so attached to his work. And he absolutely adored reptiles,” said a friend of the blogger.
He cheated a lot rare species. And he did amazing things, filmed good videos and photographs. He created his own private exotarium, says Maratkanova.
Failed manipulation
Andrey Derevyankin, administrator of the BobCat TV public page, told his version of what happened:
The day before, Arslan announced on his Instagram stream a night broadcast on YouTube with one of his most favorite snakes - Mamba. Turning on the camera, as he regularly did before, he went to remove the snake from the terrarium to move it into a plastic container used for broadcasting. In the process of manipulating the snake, a bite was received, he said.
Since the man had worked with snakes for more than 20 years, he understood perfectly well what happened to him.
Arslan, realizing what had happened, left a message for his wife Ekaterina, and asked the audience, who turned out to be eyewitnesses, to contact Katya by phone, as his limbs began to quickly go numb, making it impossible to call for help on his own, after which he soon went outside, waiting for help to arrive, - Derevyankin tells the events of that evening.
Fast and poisonous
Among venomous snakes, the black mamba is second only in size to king cobra. The Guinness Book of World Records says she is probably the most fast snake in the world. But, despite its abilities, when a mamba meets a person, it tries in every possible way to avoid contact. She freezes in the hope that they will not notice her and pass by, or she tries to sneak away just as unnoticed. And only with the inevitable meeting does the snake become aggressive.
The mamba can grow up to 3 meters in length and has deadly dangerous poison. IN wildlife This African snake feeds on rodents and birds, avoiding people.
If it does bite, the person affected by its venom needs immediate administration of an antidote. Otherwise, he will die.
Russian blogger Arslan Valeev, known for his videos about big cats and other dangerous animals, died after being bitten black mamba. He deliberately provoked a snake to bite him live, and subscribers had to call an ambulance, which put him in an induced coma. But it was not possible to save the man. Later, the blogger’s acquaintances began to write that Arslan’s strange act was provoked by a family drama.
31-year-old Arslan Valeev, who ran a blog about dangerous animals BobCat TV, died after being bitten by a black mamba - one of the most dangerous snakes in the world. It all happened back on September 23rd. The blogger showed live on YouTube that he was bitten by a snake. And instead of calling the doctors, he continued to broadcast, during which it became clear with every minute that he was getting worse and worse. As a result, the audience called an ambulance, but they failed to save Valeev - he never came out of his coma.
I'll just stay with you for a little while. If anything, there is an entry on the phone for Katya. Just reading your messages. Tell Katya that I loved her very much. Bye everyone. I can’t even believe that this is happening to me. This is Katya’s phone number, if she manages to drive up to me and see me, I would be glad. In fact, I'm already dying. Farewell. But I would be glad to see Katya. I'm shaking.
It later turned out that shortly before the incident with the snake, Arslan broke up with his wife Ekaterina, writes the Dvacha Telegram channel, and before that their family scandal was watched by subscribers. After his wife left, they began to harass her on Arslan’s public page on VKontakte.
But then the man apologized to his ex-wife. Moreover, earlier Catherine herself complained that Arslan beat her.
Valeev himself stated that his wife cheated on him. But then he realized that this was not so, and made a public apology. But the wife, apparently, decided not to accept the apology.
Meanwhile, the opinions of Arslan's subscribers about his action were divided. Some believe that he actually committed public suicide, others think that they witnessed an accident and his dying speech was not planned. Many of Arslan’s followers urge him not to blame Catherine for what happened to him. In his group on the VKontakte page, comments are currently closed and condolences from friends are published.
I love YouTube: there is a lot of useful information, and it’s interesting to follow some people’s video blogs. One of my subscriptions is the BobCat channel, on which the spouses Katya and Arslan posted videos of their tame lynx Hannah, and then two more domestic lynxes Martin and Umka, and also often conducted live broadcasts - streams. And now Arslan is no more.
To say that I am shocked by this news is an understatement. The worst thing is that there is already a sea of videos on YouTube, where the relationship between Katya and Arslan is discussed up and down and subscribers are encouraged to discuss it, and most importantly, they talk out loud about whether Arslan’s death was an accident or a suicide.
Now let's talk about everything in order.
Snakes, lynxes and love
I subscribed to the BobCat channel 11 months ago. Then Arslan already had his own YouTube channel “Private Exotarium”, on which he talked about reptiles, because he has been keeping and breeding them at home for more than 20 years. But reptiles were not too interesting to me, but lynxes - they are cute and funny. Everyone loves cats, even if they are big ones. Katya and Arslan lived in a private house near St. Petersburg, built enclosures in their yard, and kept a real lynx kitten in the house. Since the kitten was taken from its mother on the third day after birth, it grew up absolutely tame, very affectionate and sociable. Hannah grew up and moved from home to her own enclosure. Two more lynxes soon settled in Arslan and Katya's yard: the tame, but not wild Martin, and the practically tame Umka. Arslan and Katya several times organized large-scale streams like “Night in an enclosure with a lynx” or a whole day in an enclosure with lynxes.Watching the streams and regularly released videos was incredibly interesting. It's not that I'm very interested in the peculiarities of keeping large wild cats in a private home, I just somehow got used to Hannah and her owners.
I never liked Katya. There seems to be nothing so repulsive about her, but for some reason she aroused and continues to arouse antipathy. Arslan, a comrade who was not at all attractive from the point of view of the canons of beauty, just aroused sympathy. In the spring of this year, the guys announced that they were separating and moving away. Katya took a couple of cats and moved to a rented apartment 15 minutes from Arslan’s house. Arslan was left with lynxes, dogs, the cat Missa, and his extensive collection of snakes. Soon he got himself a little puppy. Everyone, as one, said that Arslan and his new pet were very similar.
Who would have imagined?..
Then, like a bolt from the blue, photographs of the beatings inflicted by Arslan appeared on Katya’s Instagram. It seems like he waylaid her near the apartment and beat her. It was impossible to see any serious traces of beatings on the small screens of smartphones or large screens of tablets. A pimple on the neck and two tiny abrasions on the back - that’s all the “beatings”. Katya went to the doctors, they diagnosed a concussion and gave her a certificate. What started in the comments! I read everything and monitored the situation. Arslan is a unique person. In Russian speaking, a classic nerd with an inferiority complex. Just two years ago, when he and Katya got married, he was the most happy man on earth, he said that he met the only one who was the whole universe for him. The happiness was short-lived. Somehow Arslan found out that Katya was cheating on him, found out how long ago and with whom. Could he have beaten her? Rather yes than no. Even the calmest person has a limit to his patience. Did he actually do it? More likely no than yes. Did Katya really cheat on him? I don’t even doubt that I cheated, but no one held a candle. All this is speculation and speculation.Time passed. Streams began to happen much more often. Sometimes there were three a day: first on the “Private Exotarium” Arslan talked about some kind of snake, then on BobCat he showed a puma, and then he went to Instagram and cooked some food there or simply communicated with subscribers. Of course, when your entire social circle is limited to animals, and you see people a couple of times a week and even then not always, you want to talk. Man is a social being. Once real communication Arslan's shortcoming, apparently, went entirely into virtual communication. He spoke himself and answered questions completely real people on the other side of the screen.
Trouble has come - open the gate
It was clear that Arslan was depressed and that he was damn tired. It is not easy to maintain such a large farm alone. It was necessary to clean up the snakes in time, and to devote time to the lynxes, and to nurse the pupena. At first, Arslan bottle-fed the cougar every few hours, then he spent the whole day in the veterinary clinic because his new pet had digestive problems, then the puma fell off the couch and major surgery on his little paw, the medicine by the hour.But everything began to improve more or less. Although it was clear that Arslan was being thrown from side to side. Either he is cheerful, jokes and laughs, then his ears wither from his tediousness, then he is depressed, drunk and says evil words about his ex-wife. Last week I watched several of Arslan's streams. He decided that cooking would be his new hobby, because he had never cooked anything more complicated than pasta and sausages. First, he cooked borscht live under the advice of the audience, the next day he baked oatmeal cookies, then he swung at the Napoleon cake.
I had guests over on Saturday, and although I saw the notification pop up about the start of the stream, I didn’t tune in. On that day, a tragedy occurred live, but I found out about it only 5 days later. The day before yesterday in the morning I received a notification on my phone from YouTube about the appearance of a new video on BobCat with the title “Clarification of the situation regarding animals.” I thought that they would talk about where, when and at what price the cats were bought, and analyze the complexity of their home care. In the evening, when it was found free time, I watched a video that said that “the heirs will have access to communicate with animals.” It seemed to me that I had misheard. What are the heirs? What are we even talking about? The previous videos and recommended materials in the right column of the player on YouTube explained everything to me. For several hours I simply could not believe what had happened. To be honest, I still don’t believe it until now. The recording of the broadcast was deleted by YouTube; fragments of it remained with some subscribers, but when they try to post the recording again, it is almost immediately deleted due to the naturalistic nature of the content. I downloaded the video with a duration of 7:09. Next I describe the events according to the timing of this video.
Death of Arslan Valeev: stream by seconds
On September 23, Arslan Valeev began a previously announced broadcast on YouTube, the main character which was to become the black mamba - one of the most dangerous snakes not only in the collection of this herpetologist, but in the world in general. Arslan was sad, judging by his appearance, he either hadn’t slept for more than a day, or had a cold: he looked tired, his eyes were shining (many subscribers are sure that he was very drunk, and his mother’s opinion is further in this post). The cat Missa is licking herself in the background; the little pup is not visible in the frame. Arslan silently looks at the camera, apparently reading the comments.00:36 Greets subscribers.
00:39 He says, sighing heavily: “Well, guys, it’s time to do what needs to be done,” and smiles bitterly.
00:58 Answers the question from the comments “The broadcast has moved, yes.” Steps out of frame.
01:42 On background you can hear: “Aw... Let me go. Let me go. It hurts. Well done, you killed me. I’ll go broadcast.”
01:59 Arslan says: “I’ll die like this,” and returns to the computer.
It is clear that Arslan almost immediately felt pain; it was becoming difficult for him to breathe.
02:28 “I’ll just stay with you a little,” Arslan says to his viewers.
02:42 “If anything, there’s an entry on the phone for Katya”
02:59 “Just reading your messages”
03:14 Arslan’s eyelids began to tremble and his eyes closed.
03:42 Every breath comes with great difficulty
03:46 Sound signal about the receipt of a donation (a monetary transfer to the owner of the broadcast from a viewer) prompted Arslan to open his eyes for a moment.
03:49 "Tell Katya that I loved her very much"
04:01 Arslan shows his right hand to the camera, where index finger bite marks and a drop of blood are visible. "Beauty, huh?" - Arslan asks.
04:04 Arslan swallows with difficulty and says: “Oh wow, what a…”
04:15 “Bye everyone,” Arslan says goodbye, for a while he gathers his strength to get out of his chair, breathing heavily.
04:44 “I can’t even believe that all this is happening to me”
05:15 Arslan dictates the number cell phone“This is Katya’s phone. If someone gets through to me, if she manages to get to me, at least see me, I would be glad. But in fact, I’m already dying.”
05:36 "Goodbye... But Katya would be glad to see... It's fucking shaking."
Arslan sits in front of the camera, but it is clear that all his strength is spent just to continue breathing.
06:39 He shows his hands to the camera. Fingers cramped, right hand noticeably swollen.
06:41 Arslan gets up from his chair, turns on the water in the bathroom for a few seconds, and then, apparently, leaves the room.
5 minutes until death
5 minutes. Just 5 minutes from a bite to almost complete paralysis. Arslan managed to go outside, reach the gate, where he fell to the ground and began to wait for help. In Russia, doctors will not be able to save a life after a black mamba bite. Immediately after the bite, within literally a few minutes, an antidote must be administered, otherwise death is inevitable. But you need to be sure of the dosage of the antidote and that the person is definitely not allergic to the components of the drug. Arslan spoke about this many times in interviews with journalists, as well as in videos on the “Private Exotarium”.Black mamba venom contains fast-acting cardio and neurotoxins. In one bite, the snake injects 100-400 mg of poison; for an adult, 10-15 mg is enough for a lethal dose.
Here's what they write about the consequences of a black mamba bite on Wikipedia:
In many documentaries and articles say that the black mamba, like a shark, does not seek to attack a person and does this only when necessary - when it is provoked. Arslan could not help but know this. He also could not “forget” about precautions, for example, about a thick glove, which he repeatedly wore when working in front of a camera with dangerous snakes.
Arslan was taken to the hospital. Doctors put him into a medically induced coma, but alas... Around noon on September 25, Arslan Valeev died. The man died, but then a large-scale Internet squabble began, which was, in fact, to be expected.
The BobCat channel has 275 thousand subscribers. The "Private Exotarium" has 249 thousand. Some of these people subscribe to both channels. The stream with the black mamba bite was watched by about 600 people. Arslan and Katya may have been known in the online community, but mainly to those who love exotic snakes and wild cats. I myself noticed that the rapid growth in the number of subscribers on the channels occurred between streams, where Arslan said something negative about Katya, or she published something on her Instagram about Arslan. In general, people were interested not only and not so much in animals, but in the personal lives of two adults. So sometimes I wanted to slap some commentators and stream viewers on the forehead, slap them on the forehead and scribble on the same forehead: get away from people, it’s none of your business - their relationships are boring you with your questions. But no, everyone wants to ask for the millionth time. Did Katya and Arslan divorce or not, and when, and why, and why, but definitely divorced?..
In pursuit of sensation
On September 25, just a few hours after Arslan passed away, journalists literally did not allow his sister access. On the same day, the death of the herpetologist was commented on by the host of the program “In the Animal World,” Nikolai Drozdov, with whom Arslan was familiar. During these 5 days, a little more than a dozen different videos were posted on YouTube with plots of information programs of various TV channels, with excerpts from radio broadcasts...A news presenter on one TV channel said in a summary of the story that “Arslan Valeev was known for playing with wild animals on Internet broadcasts.” In the story itself, the journalist says that the black mamba, it turns out, needs to be very angry for it to attack. Yeah, just to the point of hysteria and nervous breakdown bring it, well, yes, of course. Do they at least sometimes think with their heads when they write texts for their stories? Make you angry... It’s good that you don’t upset, don’t offend, don’t make you laugh, don’t make you ashamed - or force you to show any other purely human emotions.
In another television company, a journalist reports that Arslan “died live in front of thousands of subscribers” - well, if 600 and thousands of subscribers are the same thing, then excuse me, you get a bad mark in mathematics. The expert gives a comment and says that when a black mamba bites, it injects about 20 lethal doses, and in the running line below they already write about 200 lethal doses. And the psychiatrists, who are also asked to comment on the situation, are great! The diagnosis is made not even over the phone, but through retellings. “This man’s condition apparently was close to severe depression, leading to demonstrative behavior and completed suicide.”
Every first journalist called Arslan a herpeNtologist, although the correct word would be a herpetologist.
Surprisingly, the NTV story caused the least negativity in me. Only they showed the exact address in vain...
On the death of Arslan Valeev Investigative Committee An inspection has begun in the Leningrad region. The herpetologist’s friends promise to continue running channels on YouTube. A collection of dangerous poisonous snakes (just under 300 specimens), some of which were worth several thousand dollars, was taken by Arslan’s father, with the assistance of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to a closed serpentarium for scientific research. The man openly tells reporters:
“Private collections, especially of poisonous snakes, are illegal. And there is not a single legal snake brought to Russia that is poisonous. It’s all smuggled goods. So you say, private hands... The fight is on! This fight is on to own. They are quite expensive..."
Katya and Arslan's mother were going to fight for the snakes. In one of the interviews, Katya, dramatically adjusting her glasses, says that Arslan’s death was an accident, because “he is a professional.” The mother is also surprisingly calm. In one of the telephone interviews, she suggested that during the fatal broadcast, Arslan was under the influence of sedatives and, due to lethargy and poor reaction, could not avoid the bite. I don’t understand how you can give an interview so calmly when someone close to you has died, when your SON has died! Rumor has it that the mother of the deceased believes in Buddha and sincerely believes that her son is now in the best of all possible worlds
Pumenok and the cat Missa now live with ex-wife Arslana Katya, lynxes are at the Sirin Center for the Rehabilitation of Wild Animals. The dogs were taken by their former owners. The question of the unique collection of snakes remains open. Arslan's friends ask not to panic, there is a problem, it is in the process of being resolved, and talk and scandals will not help.
freedom of speech
In general, everything revolves around two topics:1. Was Arslan’s death an accident or a deliberate suicide against the backdrop of protracted depression from unhappy love?
2. Who will get the collection of expensive and extremely dangerous snakes and what will the new owner do with this collection: sell it for big money, continue Arslan’s work, or sacrifice it to science?
Hundreds of thousands of comments, sometimes very aggressive... Opposite opinions, but they come down to one of the sides I indicated in the very wording of the question. People are either black or white...
I still can’t believe that Arslan Valeev died from a black mamba bite. Yes, I didn’t know him, I never talked or corresponded, but for a whole year I watched at least one video a week with his participation, at least 2-3 live broadcasts a month. When I first found out about his death the night before yesterday, my first thought was: “Come on, this is fake! Allegedly, “death” on air is a risky, but bold way to attract subscribers.” Then I looked at the recording of that terrible stream and a second thought came: “Lord, please, let it be fake, let us in a day, two, a month, find out that it was a brilliant acting and laugh at the effect produced.” Yesterday I spent the whole day racking my brains over the first question I formulated, today – over the second.
I sat down to write this post and was sure that by the end of writing I would definitely be able to answer both of these questions, or rather, formulate my personal opinion. And so I finish the post and I don’t care at all why Arslan allowed the mamba to bite and where his numerous snakes will be sent.
The man is gone. Good/bad, right/wrong - it doesn't matter. Just a week ago he was uploading videos, posting photos and responding to comments, and then he practically died live: in front of hundreds of people. How scary this is, Lord! This is how you watch an entertaining video and see how your breathing gradually slows down, your eyes roll back, your hands cramp...
Bloggers of various sizes have already started making videos so as not to miss trend "Arslan Valeev bite mamba stream". Some call him Valiev, some Arsen... People spend tens of minutes analyzing the views and behavior of this or that participant in history, expressing fake condolences to their relatives (who, I’m sure, are especially fond of the semi-literate aunt from Nerezinovsk with 3 thousand subscribers painted like a circus clown) and they cannot even remember and correctly write the name of the person they are talking about.
Meanwhile, the person is no longer there. No, well, we will all die someday. And it’s not a fact that from illness or old age, it could be planned or by accident. Did Arslan understand what he was doing and how he looked in the eyes of the audience? Did the viewers participating in that ill-fated stream, who watched it in real time and not in the recording, understand what was happening? Do we humans understand that some of the most dire predictions science fiction writers have become a reality: people die on screens, live, before our eyes...
PS: Science and technology have developed at a particularly rapid pace in the last 25 years. According to statistics, this rise will continue for some time, and then there will be a sharp decline, a crisis. So how many more new technologies will enter our lives during this rise? How many more people will we know and love without ever meeting or interacting with them? In what ways will our friends and acquaintances communicate with us in 10-20 years: by the power of thought, by scanning the retina, or by electronic encrypted protocols? How many
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