Lake Monsters

Champ’s Dennis Hall Missing?

Photograph of Dennis Hall announcing the past U-Haul Champ promotion. Used by permission. Lake Champlain Monster hunter Dennis Hall has gone missing. Members of his e-group are concerned, and the folks there have brought it to the attention of others that Hall’s website, ChampQuest, has disappeared. Missing: Dennis Hall. Does anyone know what’s up?

Lake Cryptid Video

Here is the Norwegian so-called “Sea Serpent” (apparently a Lake Monster?) video footage. Please see the previous post here for the background details. What do you think?

SF Sea Serpent Video

This illustration (above) from the early 1800s’ sighting of a Sea Serpent off the coast of New England is compared with a video capture (below) from the Clarks’ 2004 Sea Serpent videotape taken off of California. Sea serpent? Dolphins? Water birds? The Clarks have done a great deal to secure the analysis of their video. Bob and Bill Clark have received and are now sharing stabilized portions of their San Francisco Bay sea serpent video. (An uplink will be shared here if a format for the internet if available.) Please find here the link to their pdf attachment which contains [...]

Norwegian Lake Monster

This picture is taken at a distance of about 20 metres at the Snaasa lake near Steinkjer i North Troendelag. (Photo: Einar Johannes Sandnes ) In Sweden and Norwary, sometimes, “sea serpent” is a term used for lake monsters. Sea serpent in Snaasa lake Is this a sea serpent? Einar Johannes Sandnes wonders if it really was a sea serpent that he saw popping its head out of the lake. What do you think? By David Brændeland Could this be a sea serpent? The creature that stuck its head out of Snaasa lake managed to rattle Einar Johannes Sandnes. It [...]

Art Deco Adventures: Patagonian Plesiosaurus

Click on image for a full size pdf version of the April 9, 1922, Lima, Ohio, graphic. Today, the lake monster reported in Lago (English: Lake) Nahuel Huapi in the northern Patagonia region between the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, in Argentina, near the border with Chile, is called “Nahuelito.” The huge lake itself, which is about 1350 feet deep, covers over 300 square miles at the base of the Patagonian mountains, a perfect site for a watery cryptid, variously described as a giant serpent or a huge hump. Or a prehistoric dinosaur? Forget about Africa’s Mokele-mbembe hunts in [...]

Old Newspapers: Lake Merritt Monster

I posted on the current news about California’s Lake Merritt Monster, a couple days ago, here. Now comes some archival newspaper articles, shared by Craig Heinselman. Following these images of the Lake Merritt Monster from old newspapers are the pdfs from 1946, 1954, and 1958, on this “created cryptid.” Oakland Tribune June 21, 1946 Oakland Tribune August 22, 1954 Oakland Tribune June 15, 1958 Thanks to Craig Heinselman for these, and to Craig Woolheater for technical assistance in uploading them to pdfs.