**Breaking**Russian scientists searching for underground 'alien' lake still missing on SEVENTH day as Tuesday 'date of no return'

Russian scientists searching for underground 'alien' lake still missing on SEVENTH day as Tuesday 'date of no return' looms

A team of Russian scientists has mysteriously lost contact with colleagues in the U.S. as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.

Their radio silence has conjured chilling echoes of classic horror film The Thing, where scientists dig up a buried spacecraft in the Antarctic ice, only to unleash an extraterrestrial horror within.

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