Yeti. United States

Legends of local Indians claim that the lake was created by a deity named Llao, who once rained fire on the earth in a great rage and where the largest "fire core" fell, this lake was formed.

Modern scientists believe that the lake is not meteoritic, but volcanic nature and that these are the remains of an old collapsed volcano.

Strange stories have been associated with this place for hundreds of years, but the real chronology of observations of the lake and its surroundings appeared when two forest rangers, brothers Larry and Lloyd Smith, came to work here in 1959. 

When the brothers heard some curious local stories, they were completely captivated by the energy of this place and began to collect all such strange cases, rumors, gossip and first-hand stories. 

They did not just collect them, but regularly published collections for the public. So was born Chronological history of the Smith Brothers Crater Lake, which included the most interesting local observations from 1828 to 2009.

In the summer of 1980, a pair of Rangers, Marion Jack and Vic Affalter, reported hearing something big making a loud noise in the woods at the old PCT entrance on West Road.

"And then something threw a pine cone in our direction. The lump smelled very strongly and unpleasantly, probably because it threw it in our direction," the report said. 

What exactly was making noise in the forest and throwing a bump, the rangers could not see.