The phantom landmass had emerged in the Caspian Sea following the 2023 eruption of the Kumani Bank mud volcano, which is located some 15 miles off the East coast of Azerbaijan, SWNS reported.

And maybe they were right to be worried. The Caspian Sea Monster could scream along at 650 kilometers per hour, would skim harmlessly over antiship mines, and flew too low for most radar to spot.

In the 1980s, an American engineer had a bold vision—to build an ekranoplan 10 times bigger than the Soviet Union’s Caspian ...

The island was spotted by satellite in the 143,200-square-mile Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, NASA says. NASA photo Like some sort of modern Atlantis, a “ghost” island has largely ...

The "weird" sandy protrusion emerged in the Caspian Sea after a mud volcano erupted in early 2023. An artist's impression of Nasa's Landsat 8 satellite, which snapped the photos of the "ghost ...

The Caspian Sea Monster was a Soviet marvel that skimmed the waves, blending the speed of a plane with the stability of a ship. Now, DARPA’s Liberty Lifter aims to revive this concept with ...

off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part ...

Kumani Bank fading from view. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the ...

long sitting neglected in the Caspian Sea, is the answer to these problems. For navies to survive, perhaps the Caspian Sea Monster must roar once more.

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery. | Credit: NASA Earth ...