N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), The Sea Serpent, 1937. (Adhered to reverse of panel, Renaissance Panel label, no. 590, dated 9/24/37; handwritten on Renaissance Panel label: The explorations of Capt. George Weymouth into the rivers of the state of Maine 1602).
As the summer of 2013 comes to its unofficial vacation closing, with August fading, watery cryptid sightings are exploding around the English-speaking world.
The Sea Serpent-Moose-horsehead comparison was made by me in writings a long time ago, but that doesn’t mean that some Sea Serpents don’t actually have heads that look like horses, moose, and deer. Image by Dick Raynor, 2002.
Breaking information was sent to me late yesterday that on Thursday, August 22, 2013, two middle aged men kayaking in Somes Sound, off Acadia National Park, Maine, had a Sea Serpent sighting. The men reported it had a 3-foot-long scaly horse head. (Further details may develop, as an investigation is underway.)
Meanwhile, English-language media are reporting that amateur photographer David Elder, 50, is convinced that he photographed the Loch Ness Monster. He feels the strange phenomenon he recorded was caused by something beneath the water. Elder’s encounter took place earlier in August 2013 near Fort Augustus, Scotland, at the south-west end of the 23-mile-long lake (“loch” in Scottish). In addition to still photography, Elder obtained video of the mysterious encounter (see below), which was published by the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, and Huffington Post.
Most serious researchers of the Loch Ness Monsters, including Gary Campbell and Henry Bauer, consider what was seen and photographed to be a wave.
On Sunday, August 25, it was revealed that during a recent stay at Loch Morar in Scotland, Doug Christie and his wife Charlotte said they spotted a 20-foot-long black shape in the water three times in two days and are convinced the Loch Morar monster, nicknamed Morag, has returned.
In June 2013, news of one Lake Champlain Monster sighting (see here) came in, but things were rather calm there, it appears.
Elsewhere, in May 2013, an Irish film maker captured footage of an unidentified creature breaking the surface of Lough Foyle in Ireland.
There was speculation that the film was of an object being towed to create a fake Lake Monster.
If you do some screen captures from the beginning of that Loch Foyle clip and sharpen and enlarge the image you can make out that this object is a head or model of a head of some huge animal with eyes, nose and part of the mouth visible. If this is just a model, then hats off to the animator for making it able to submerge, right after it seemingly changes it’s shape.
At one time most of the lochs in Scotland and Ireland were thought to be inhabited with similarly described creatures. Even Roy Mackal was convinced by local accounts and explored some Lochs that were very small in comparison to Ness.
And speaking of Acadia, it’s a hotbed for Lake Champlain type animals.
Check out this video on Youtube. At exactly the 1 minute mark the camera person makes a final panoramic sweep of the ocean off Acadia, Maine and you can see, out about a half mile, a large black snake like object has suddenly broken the surface and remains in view for about 1 second.
If you isolate these frames and enlarge, there are a couple of frames that look exactly like the Mansi Champ photograph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNB3msSAfU