Cthulhu watch: underground lakes in Antarctica!!!

HP Lovecraft would love this story. Except for the lack of mountains, it almost reads like a report from the Antarctic geological expedition covered in his one novel, At the Mountains of Madness.

...wait...weren't there underground lakes in Lovecraft's story? Wasn't that where the Elder Things went to escape the changing climate, the rebellion of the shoggoths, endless wars with the Great Race and the star-spawn and the destruction of their civilization?

What do you think the Russians are going to find when they drill through that last layer of ice? And break through into the true netherworld of an ice cold subterranean lake that hasn't seen the sun or felt the air for 20 million years?!!!

Do you think they will find the Elder Things?



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 Or the shoggoths? Their rebellious and malleable servants?

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Or their enemies? The Mi-Go?

Ruud Dirven
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Imagine being at the edge of the ice when the drill bursts into the "pristine" water? I can almost here the sound...

Tekeli-li...
Tekeli-li...
Tekeli-li...