The American Loch Ness Monster Explained

Sightings of mysterious lake monsters have been reported for centuries from Lake Champlain in North America - but what exactly could be causing them?

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[ihavenomouthandimusttype]

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Investigator: Could you describe the cryptid.
Mancy: It’s skin had a bark like texture.
Investigator: Like...like a floating branch?
Mancy: Yes! Exactly like a floating branch!

[julianshepherd]

According to the documentary series "Scoobydoo" all monsters are fake except the Loch Ness one.
Obvs.

[calebgowett]

I live in that area and Champ is basically a local mascot around here

[eviljoel]

I love monsters, but the whole cryptid thing fell apart the moment literally everyone and their grandmothers got decent cameras in their phones.

[pirththee]

Just so we're clear. The thought of a large predatory creature inhabiting the waters of Lake Michigan where I fish, does not fill me with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

[ianlewis]

My Dad grew up only a few miles from Lake Champlain and always heard these stories. It's nice to see some more representation from the American Loch Ness

[humbleevidenceaccepter]

"Champ" must be real because all the photos are blurry.

[williambalboni]

Back in 1997 while sailing up south river off the Chesapeake bay, my friends and l saw something odd cutting across my bow displacing a lot of water, it broke the surface briefly and saw a small part of what I describe as a large eel, dark brown smooth and shiny skin no scales and it just went on its way, did not surface to breath air, to this day I'll never forget this.

[TheLordUrban]

Maybe the real Champ is the friends we made along the way.

[richardputz]

It’s so true about plants looking like something else. Way back when I was a hunter a friend and I spent 30 min.or so staking what we were sure was a big buck and it turned out it was a large ragweed plant sticking out of a snow bank. We were positive it was a buck deer and the branches of the weed really did like horns .

[legendre]

I can always rely on Ben G Thomas to look into exciting zoology-related topics. 😊

[jokuvaan]

The difference between a zoologist and a cryptozoologist is that zoologists try to fit their beliefs to the evidence while cryptozoologists try to fit the evidence to their beliefs.

[bkjeong]

The original description of Champie is clearly based off a gar. Samuel de Champlain’s description almost exactly matches with it.

Edit: turns out that it was later clarified that Champlain WAS talking about the longnose gar in his original description of Champie. He never said anything about a plesiosaur-like animal.

de Champlain, Samuel (1878). Voyages of Samuel de Champlain. 2: 1604-1610.

[hunterGk]

I really liked the tone of this video, I'd never thought of cryptozoology as a branch of anthropology before but it's such an interesting idea. I'd love it if you could do something on the less famous sea/lake creature, yths from Scotland, we have more than just Nessie :)

[zeethenecromancer]

Finally, a channel that doesn't play creepy music when they're talking about cryptozoology or paleontology.

[hobosorcerer]

Now I'm just curious about what's causing Lake Champlain's detected echolocating sounds.

[t-r-e-x]

Why not a video on Mokele-Mbembe, the Congo Sauropod?

[panqueque]

"All that Champlain reported was a big fish"
Champlain: Yo that's a big fish.
Everyone else: American loch ness monster you say?

[jasonaquarius]

Person: I've caught champ *throws a rotten log onto the floor

[Gorilogro]

I used to be obsessed with cryptozoology as a kid. These videos give me good memories. Thanks!