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The legend isn't spooky, it is a love story where rivers and lakes are portrayed as humans.
The story goes like this:
The mighty Baikal (lake) has a beautiful daughter Angara (river). Baikal loves his daughter but he is very strict with her and he doesn't want her to marry anybody. Then the seagull tells Angara about the foreign lands and about the handsome Yenisey (also a river). Angara wants to marry him, but her dad has already found a husband for her. It was Irkut (also a river), he was also handsome and rich, but Angara didn't want to marry him. Her father was furious and put her into tower with crystal locks, she was also under supervision of Olkhon (island). At night before the wedding Angara prayed to gods to help her and let her enjoy her youth. And gods put her father and his friends to sleep. Then smaller lakes and creeks helped her break out of the tower. So she ran away to Yenisey, and her father woke up just to see her far away. He threw a rock, but it didn't reach her. And so she met Yenisey and they lived happily ever after.
Also the rock exists, and it is called 'the shaman rock', it splits the waters of Angara and Baikal. The rock is pretty small, only like two or three people can stand on it. It is called 'shaman rock' because the sacrifices were made to calm the Baikal down.
gpt
Awesome story. Thanks anon.