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Post by xXSpookyXx on May 9, 2008 16:37:38 GMT -11
Lake and Sea monsters have been reported through out history. To date, the scientific community has yet to come up with any real evidence that would support their existence yet there are many believers out there.
Your thoughts?
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Post by JoeGeist on May 9, 2008 17:53:17 GMT -11
In NY we supposedly have one in Lake Champlain. It's called Champy.
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Post by literarysnob on May 15, 2008 5:01:03 GMT -11
Oh every state has a lake/sea/river monster legend!! I had at one time ran across one that is local to Utah at the Bear Lake. The lake in located at the top of Utah on the Utah-Idaho border. It mainly stems from they have not yet figured out just how deep the lake is, but they know its really deep!
I'm off to the docs but when iI get home I will look around for the link and psot it here. Also I think there is a website that lists the monsters for each state.
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Post by CougarBob on May 15, 2008 5:52:29 GMT -11
I'm from Idaho and we have several lake monsters in various lakes. The one in Bear Lake has been talked about for many many years. The Bear Lake Monster This story was written in 1868 by Joseph C. Rich and was sent to the Deseret News Newspaper:
The Indians have a tradition concerning a strange, serpent-like creature inhabiting the waters of Bear Lake, which they say carried off some of their braves many moons ago. Since then, they will not sleep close to the lake. Neither will they swim in it, nor let their squaws and papooses bathe in it.
Now, it seems this water devil, as the Indians called it, has again made an appearance. A number of our white settlers declare they have seen it with their own eyes. This Bear Lake Monster, they now call it, is causing a great deal of excitement up here. S. M. Johnson at South Eden was riding along near the Lake the other day when he saw something a number of yards out in the lake which he thought was the body of a man. He waited for the waves to wash it in, but to his surprise, found the water washed over it without causing it to move. Then he saw it had a head and neck like some strange animal. On each side of the head were ears, or bunches the size of a pint cup. He concluded the body must be touching the bottom of the lake. By this time, however, Johnson seems to have been leaving the place so rapidly he failed to observe other details.
The next day three women and a man saw a monstrous animal in the lake near the same place, but this time it was swimming at an incredible speed. According to their statement, it was moving faster than a horse could run.
On Sunday last, N. C. Davis and Allen Davis of St. Charles; Thomas Sleight and James Collings of Paris, with six women were returning from Fish Haven when about midway from the latter place to St. Charles, their attention was suddenly attracted to a peculiar motion of waves on the water about three miles distant. The lake was not rough, only a little disturbed by the wind. Mr. Sleight ways he distinctly saw the sides of a very large animal that he would suppose to be not less than 90 feet in length. Mr. Davis doesn't think he was any part of the body, but is positive it must not have been less than forty feet in length, judging by the waves it rolled up on both sides of it as it swam, and the wave it left in the rear. It was going south, and all agreed it swam with a speed almost incredible to their senses. Mr. Davis says he never saw a locomotive travel faster, and thinks it made a mile a minute. In a few minutes after the discovery of the first, a second followed in its wake, but seemed much smaller, appearing to Mr. Sleight about the size of a horse. A larger one followed this, and so on until before disappearing, made a sudden turn to the west a short distance, then back to its former track. At this turn Mr. Sleight says he could distinctly see it was of a brown color. They could judge somewhat of the speed by observing known distances on the opposite side of the lake; and all agree that the velocity with which these monsters propelled themselves, was astounding. They represent the waves rolling up on each side as about three feet high. This is substantially their statement as they told me. Messengers Davis and Sleight are prominent men, well known in the country, and all of them are reliable persons, whose veracity is undoubted. I have no doubt they would be willing to make affidavits to their statements.
Was it fish, flesh. or serpent? Amphibious, of just a big fib, or what is it? I give up, but live in hopes of some day seeing it.
The Deseret News ran the story July 31, 1868. Great excitement followed. A news staff member during the next month quizzed many Bear Lake people and found hardly a person who doubted it.
However, the inevitable skeptics did appear on the scene.
The Indians had taken a great deal of interest in stories of the monster and claimed that their ancestors told them about a monster. They were telling some pretty good-sized stories about the creatures.
In 1874, a traveler named John Goodman came through the Bear Lake Valley. He described an Indian legend about two lovers whom, upon being pursued by some of their fellow tribesmen, plunged into the lake and were changed by the Great Spirit into two large serpents. However, this is just a legend.
The description of the Monster was the following: A creature with a brown-colored body, somewhat bigger in circumference than a man, anywhere from 40 to 200 feet long. Its head was shaped like a walrus without tusks or like an alligator's, and the eyes were very large and about a foot apart. It had ears like bunches, about the size of a pint cup. It had an unknown number of legs, approximately eighteen inches long, and it was awkward on land, but swam with a serpent-like motion at a speed of at least sixty miles an hour. No one ever described the back part of the animal since the head and forepart was all that was ever seen. The rest was always under water.
bearlakechamber.com/bearlakemonster.htm
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Post by xXSpookyXx on May 15, 2008 7:18:12 GMT -11
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Post by literarysnob on May 15, 2008 9:51:21 GMT -11
Yea, see they are everywhere!!! I remember seeing one that was along a river by a dam that was built in the last century!!
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Post by xXSpookyXx on May 15, 2008 10:08:07 GMT -11
Yea, see they are everywhere!!! I remember seeing one that was along a river by a dam that was built in the last century!! WOW you did? Would you mind describing this strange animal to us? Only if you want to though.
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Post by chrissy on May 15, 2008 10:22:55 GMT -11
I think there are huge sea animals out there , that we dont know about or wont know about due to the depth of the ocean. ITs such a large unaccountable avoid, its hard to know if there is a "creature".
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Post by CougarBob on May 16, 2008 3:34:19 GMT -11
I think there are huge sea animals out there , that we dont know about or wont know about due to the depth of the ocean. ITs such a large unaccountable avoid, its hard to know if there is a "creature". So, you believe in monsters under the water, but not Bigfoot. I would think you would learn a lesson from "Messing With Sasquatch."
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Post by amara1369 on May 16, 2008 3:38:36 GMT -11
I think there are huge sea animals out there , that we dont know about or wont know about due to the depth of the ocean. ITs such a large unaccountable avoid, its hard to know if there is a "creature". So, you believe in monsters under the water, but not Bigfoot. I would think you would learn a lesson from "Messing With Sasquatch." www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4vL-ajp8sU
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Post by CougarBob on May 16, 2008 4:01:19 GMT -11
Cool. Thanks, Amara, I love those commercials. And, they present important rules to live by. Something that Chrissy should be aware of. Amara, I'm sending you a smoochie for that.
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Post by amara1369 on May 16, 2008 4:10:27 GMT -11
Cool. Thanks, Amara, I love those commercials. And, they present important rules to live by. Something that Chrissy should be aware of. Amara, I'm sending you a smoochie for that.
aww hehe thanks! no problem! I love those commercials! and thanks for the smoochie! right back at ya
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Post by solarstorm on Jun 14, 2008 17:02:08 GMT -11
If you want to check out an interesting take on the Loch Ness monster, read Steve Alten's The Loch, which is about the Loch Ness Monster, with a supposed theory as to what Nessie actually is.
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Post by xXSpookyXx on Jun 15, 2008 15:42:03 GMT -11
Thanks Solar I would love to check that out!
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Post by tuesbails on Jun 20, 2008 17:57:00 GMT -11
In NY we supposedly have one in Lake Champlain. It's called Champy. I live on the other side of the lake. Yes, their are some people who firmly believe that a lake monster named Champ lives in the lake. I don't believe in the stories that people tell about it. I have gone swimming in the lake since I was a kid and I have never seen such a thing. Lake Champlain is not really big and I just think that if there was such a thing in there that we would have way more documented sightings then we have now.
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