Russia is home to the deepest lake on earth: Lake Baikal. It holds over 30% of the world's fresh water—more than all of the Great Lakes in the United States combined. When you're a 25 million year old lake with trillions of gallons of water—you generate some stories over the years. This week, on The What If? Podcast, we tell those stories. Stories about Russian divers getting murdered by 10-foot tall alien divers, Russian versions of Loch Ness monsters, multiple mile wide ice holes in the surface, and Lake Baikal UFOs. It's all baked in, this week, another wild and wet episode of The What If? Podcast.

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