Tourists Flock to See China’s Monster Fish
Thousands of Chinese tourists have visited a remote lake in western China to glimpse a horse-eating water monster, the official New China News Agency said Wednesday.
“The legend of the ‘Karas Lake Monster’ started when some local Mongolian and Kazak minority nationality people claimed to have seen it gobble up horses,” the agency said.
More than 5,000 tourists have visited the remote 16-square-mile lake in China’s far western Xinjiang province since sightings were first reported in the press last summer.
A team of Xinjiang University scientists identified the red monster as a huge fish belonging to the salmon family.
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