The Lake of No Return
Near the Pangsau Pass, a lake is said to have swallowed wartime aircraft and soldiers without a trace.
What was reported
Nawng Yang lake lies just across the border from Arunachal Pradesh, near the Stilwell Road built during the Second World War. It is widely known as the Lake of No Return.
The stories say Allied aircraft flying the dangerous routes over the region came down into the lake, that soldiers who went to it never came back, and that something in the water draws people in. Local tellings add that no one who enters it comes out.
Explanations offered
Many aircraft were lost over these hills in the war, in bad weather and rough terrain, and some may have come down in or near the lake. No wreck has been confirmed in it, and the other stories have no records behind them. The lake's remoteness has kept the legend alive.
- When
- Stories from the 1940s
- Where
- Near the Pangsau Pass, Myanmar, by Arunachal Pradesh
- Witnesses
- Wartime pilots and soldiers, later locals
- Status
- Legend
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