The Lake Tianchi Monster: The Creature in China’s Heaven Lake

An aerial view of Heaven Lake (Lake Tianchi) in the crater of Changbai Mountain

About 4 min readHigh in the Changbai Mountains on the border of China and North Korea, a cold volcanic crater lake has produced reports of a large creature for more than a century — including a 1962 sighting by more than a hundred people and a 2007 video of six seal-like shapes. Scientists remain sceptical, and the lake keeps its secret.