However, a school of fishes was not ruled out. It was approximately 30 feet long and had three to five humps. On August 10, , Martin Klein, Joseph Zarzynski, and others aboard an air-sea rescue vessel between Westport, New York, and Basin Harbor, Vermont, saw an animate object thrashing on the surface of the lake. On July 6, , Dennis Jay Hall obtained about forty-five minutes of digital video of two long-necked animals in shallow water just south of the mouth of Otter Creek, Vermont.
He has several videos of single animals taken on several other occasions, one as recently as October 6, , in Button Bay, Vermont.
Like Loch Ness, Lake Champlain is over feet m deep, and both lakes were formed from retreating glaciers following the end of the Ice Age about 10, years ago. Believers also claim both lakes support fish populations large enough to feed a supposed sea or lake monster. This legend would require either a single 10,year-old animal, or a breeding population of thirty.
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Hand-picked by the curators. Moments later the creature seemed to sink back into the lake, perhaps startled by a motorboat that was approaching. The whole sighting lasted six or seven minutes. The Mansis', fearing ridicule, never publicized what they had seen, but put the photo into their family album.
The negative got lost over the years. A friend who saw it eventually contacted Zarzynski. Zarzynski also showed the photo to B. Frieden determined that the photo was not doctored by pasting one image on top of another. Another expert, Paul LeBlond, from the University of British Columbia, estimated from the surrounding wave sizes, that the object in the picture was between twenty-four and seventy-eight feet in length. Some people think "Champ" is a plesiosaur that escaped extinction Copyright Lee Krystek, Investigations continue at Lake Champlain.
Cryptozoologist Roy Mackal visited the lake in and suggested the creature might be a surviving zeuglodon also known as a Basilosaurus. Thiis a primitive form of whale which had a long snakelike body that would match the description of many of the reports, but not the Mansi photograph.
The fossils of such a creature, thought long extinct, were discovered near Charlotte, Vermont, just a few miles from the lake. Skeptics point out that if there are monsters in Lake Champlain, there must certainly be enough of them to have a breeding population. This usually requires 50 adult creatures for the group to survive even in the short run and to keep the population healthy over a long period.
Could fifty large lake monsters live year in and year out in Lake Champlain with only a very occasional sighting? Skeptics argue that this is unlikely. Lake Champlain is very much like Loch Ness: It is long, deep, narrow and cold. Scientists have discovered that both bodies of water have an underwater wave called a seiche that can throw debris from the bottom of the lake up to the surface. Some skeptics think this may explain many of the monster sightings.
Whether Champ is a zeuglodon, plesiosaur, or seiche wave, one thing remains certain. People living and visiting Lake Champlain will continue to see things in the water and wonder what they might be.. All Rights Reserved. Related Links. Sea Serpents. Not Sea Monsters. In , De Champlain is supposed to have reported seeing a large monster in the lake while fighting Iroquois on the banks of Lake Champlain. No true record of this sighting exists, and many experts believe the tale to be a hoax.
Fervor grew for proof of the Lake Champlain Monster, and legendary showman P. The Mansi photograph shows a startling image of what appears to be a long-necked, dinosaur -like creature approximately ft 45 m away from the shore of Lake Champlain. Mansi witnessed the creature with her husband and two children, and claimed it kept its head out of the water for about four to seven minutes before diving under the water. Experts are divided on what the photo truly shows, with some suggesting the creature in the photo is size-distorted, and others suggesting it is merely a floating tree stump or large bird.
Believers in the Lake Champlain Monster think that it is related to the prehistoric plesiosaur , an aquatic reptile with a long, snake-like neck. The plesiosaur is believed to have become extinct as a result of the K-T extinction, when many dinosaurs and other early animals died out due to an immense environmental change.
The Lake Champlain Monster, in order to be a plesiosaur, would either need to be a single 10, year old animal, or the result of a small, consistently breeding group.
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