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A team of British scientists, reports the BBC, is about to start a survey of a mysterious mountain range called the Gamburtsevs, buried several kilometers deep under the Antarctic ice.

“This region is a complete enigma” says Dr. Fausto Ferraccioli of the British Antarctic Survey. “It’s in the middle of the continent. Most mountain ranges are on the edges of continents, and we really can’t understand what these mountains are doing in the centre.”

Of course, anyone familiar with H.P. Lovecraft knows that maybe those mountains are buried for a good reason…

I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the Antarctic—with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.

A word of advice, guys: If you happen to dig up an uncannily preserved, barrel-shaped creature with tentacles, stop what you’re doing and run.