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YouTube Video Catches Lake Champlain 'Monster'

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(Newser) – A cell phone video has revived the legend of “Champ,” the monster long rumored to reside in Lake Champlain, ABC News reports. Nessie’s less-famous North American cousin has been spotted 300 times, if you believe the locals, but only photographed once before, in 1977. The new video shows an indistinct black shape swimming across the water, then diving under it.

Cryptozoologists are ecstatic. “If this pans out, this will be the most convincing moving picture of this creature,” said one specializing in lake monsters. But skeptics abound. Local biologists think it’s likely a deer or moose. Even the video’s poster isn’t convinced. He recently disabled comments on YouTube. “I put this up because it was strange,” he wrote, “not because I think it is ‘Champ.’”

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From videographer: I shot this video (with cellphone) of SOMETHING in the lake at Oakledge Park on Sunday (05/31/09) early am. Was anyone else out and about around Oakledge who saw this as well?   (fletcheroVT)

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Anytime anyone sees anything that they can't identify on the lake, it becomes Champ. - Ben Radford, managing editor of The Skeptical Inquirer and co-author of
Lake Monster Mysteries

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myvoice
Jun 5, 09 9:54 AM CDT
I spent summers at my grandparents house in rural WI, and they live next to a lake. I have seen dear, big ass beavers, and even black bears swim in the lake. They all looked like this thing does swimming in the water! Reply
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DeniseVB
Jun 5, 09 12:06 PM CDT
Too bad the videographer couldn't have watched it get out of the lake, as it looks like it was headed to shore. Reply
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Jojo
Jun 5, 09 12:16 PM CDT
I'm all for finding lake monsters and big foot, but it sure looks like whatever it was couldn't swim very well, and also looks like it swam from shore to shore, which makes me think it really was a moose or similar animal :( Reply
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Traveller
Jun 6, 09 3:13 AM CDT
Yeah, I think the same. The filmer didn't even claim it was the creature--just that it was strange. There may very well be some unusual creatures living in big, deep lakes. I hope we never catch one because surely they're very few in number and we stupid humans would kill it for sure.
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Reader64481089
Jun 5, 09 12:50 PM CDT
I can't help but notice that the cable show "Monster Quest" is long on chasing legends but short on actually ever finding anything, they spent an h our on TV looking for a flying monster over to film bugs and bats (yes, slow TV night and the wife had the TV Remote WHICH she refused to give up LOL) So a dutiful husband (who knows which side his bread is buttered on) endured the false intense moments only to crack up laughing at the beetle they had been filming in the dark turned out to be half an inch long. If just once they were to actually see something I fear a massive clothes change might be in order for the entire film crew, not to mention myself? Reply
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