The Deadly Lake…
There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret…




…that Stonifies!
It turns any animal it touches to stone.



Truth Behind the Lake
The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake.



The Chemical Composition
The creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5 — an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity.




Seems Like a Horror Story!
The petrified creatures it leaves behind seem straight out of a horror film.





There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret — it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a horror film.

Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land, petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5 — an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity.

According to Brandt:

I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.

I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death.



http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/10/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone/
http://eyespopping.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone

tell me something

this does'nt look real, am sure those animals were carved

Okay. What about humans? Will it turn them to stones likewise?

Lake Medusa

some people need to be taken to that lake

chaiiiiii .......and this just have to make front page.....ASUU and FG should take a dive shaa

praise god am coming up 4th to comment

Ooopz

i refuse to believe this story

I no knw say I fit be 1st 10 oooo praise God

Take me to the lake abeg

hmmmmmmm, i see.

Oh how I wish our wicked politcians airplanes will crash and fall into this lake!!!

While these pictures are real, the photographer has admitted that they were all posed.
This means that the birds did not die while perched on tree limbs. The photographer
picked them up and placed them there. If you look at the picture of the bat, you will
notice something un-usual. Bats hang upside down not the way it is shown in that picture.

Allahu Akbar!!

D lake na Badoo

[size=28pt]HEY THIS IS UNFAIR! OP COPIED MY THREAD![/size]

https://www.nairaland.com/1462723/stunning-pictures-animals-died-got

One of those terrorists caught should be tested there whether it also ve effect on humans,since terrorist ve no value 4 their lives.

Petrificus totalus! harry potter tinz

Person suppose go swim inside the lake

Nice concept, talent in the making, one of d greatest photoshops av seen. @op tell ur Brandt I said more grease to his wrist

Hmmmmm.






Sexkillz, remember I promised to take you to a beach in Tanzania, can we go now?

PAGAN 9JA:
[size=28pt]HEY THIS IS UNFAIR! OP COPIED MY THREAD![/size]

https://www.nairaland.com/1462723/stunning-pictures-animals-died-got

@op y nah? Y d photocopy, but bros d op get a diff write up, dats y he made FP. Work had on ur write up next time

Wonders

But that picture of a bat nawa oh. Bats don't hang upright. They hand upside down. They do every upside down. U sure say this lake na authe? #randomThoughts

otijah: @op y nah? Y d photocopy, but bros d op get a diff write up, dats y he made FP. Work had on ur write up next time

so are you telling me Mukina2 waited for 5 days after I create the thread to see who will post again with better write-up

That dont make sense.


THis is just discrimination against Traditionalists.

and my write-up has more info. I even posted the pic of the bat properly (upside-down).

Hmmm..
Ok now that's weird..
Does this mean there is no Fish in the water.?

Nature always beat us to it. Egyptians should have used this lake to mummify their pharaohs.