Monster in Lake Champlain ?

[The Ugly Thief]

you can go HERE (http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1648547&page=1) and watch some video caught this week by a bunch of fisherman.

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[jneale]

No one would be happier than me to have a new animal discovered – but that looked like some kinda big old eel – there aren’t any that grow that large – but it didn’t look like anything exciting.

I want video of someone being eaten, cars being smashed as it crawls out of the swamp, not ripples on the surface of the water.

[The Ugly Thief]

I want video of someone being eaten, cars being smashed as it crawls out of the swamp, not ripples on the surface of the water.
I would think that those 2 fishermen would start trying to catch it. They claim that they saw much more than they managed to capture on the video. Hell, if i was a fisherman there I'd get at it.

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[jneale]

I would think that those 2 fishermen would start trying to catch it. They claim that they saw much more than they managed to capture on the video. Hell, if i was a fisherman there I'd get at it.

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Yea –Jim Fowler would have fucking dove in there & wrestled that thing back to the boat

(And for those of you under the age of 1000, Steve Irwin)

[Homsar]

Too cold up there for a snake, right?

[wileE]

I wonder if it is something similar to an oarfish. Those were mysteries until recently.

[Nellie Bly]

Stories about Champ have been around for a while, I'm kinda surprised it made the news--must be a slow week.

[The Ugly Thief]

I wonder if it is something similar to an oarfish. Those were mysteries until recently.
well i had to lookup "oarfish" on google & after finding this :

http://www.gso.uri.edu/news/BayNotes/skelton-all.JPG

i'm gonna have to say that i'm pretty terrified right about now

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[JSpaceman]

Lake Champlain is one of my favorite lakes.

[Homsar]

well i had to lookup "oarfish" on google & after finding this :

http://www.gso.uri.edu/news/BayNotes/skelton-all.JPG

i'm gonna have to say that i'm pretty terrified right about now

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Yeah, WTF?! I never heard of an oarfish (http://www.amonline.net.au/FISHES/fishfacts/fish/rglesne.htm) . Thanks WileE!

The Oarfish is reported to be the longest of all fishes. It has a ribbon-like body that has been reliably documented to grow to 8 m in length, however specimens up to 17 m in length have been reported.

I knew I hated open water for some reason.

[jneale]

I knew I hated open water for some reason.

They live in the deep & die when they hit the surface - you're safe

[gibby]

There is a big lake with river attachment to the Pacific up here called the Okanagan. Big caves, deep and cold. The ogopogo is the 'serpant' of residence. I swear to you all that I saw the beast last summer. Sitting on the bank I started to watch a rogue ripple that moved against wind and current. Granted, I was completley lit but I know there was something in that lake.

Lots of things we haven't seen or discovered yet.

[gibby]

When I was a child on a family trip to see relatives I spent days on the edge of Loch Ness staring at the water hoping....
The unkown fascinates me.

[Donyo]

They re-ran the "Searching For Champ" or whatever special on Discovery just last weekend. It's nothing new though. Champ sightings go back to colonial times. Vermont's minor league baseball team is even called the Lake Monsters. Champ is their mascot.

http://vermontlakemonsters.com.ismmedia.com/ISM2//TextBlocks/champdugout.jpg

[Homsar]

They live in the deep & die when they hit the surface - you're safe

I mean all the unknown crap down there.

Ever see Castaway? Remember the part where he gets off the island and is floating on his raft and the whales surface next to him?
That would scare the shit out of me.

[Sushi]

Ever see Castaway? Remember the part where he gets off the island and is floating on his raft and the whales surface next to him?
That would scare the shit out of me.
The Imax film of whales scared the crap out of me. Absolutely immense creatures swimming up to me would freak me out.

Every few years, somebody writes a feature story about the supposed "monster" living in Lake Erie. I'm absolutely certain there are plenty of creatures on this earth and in the seas that we have yet to discover. The video these two fishermen caught isn't convincing though. The one still shot (the "best" glimpse) looked like a really big bass. Or maybe a walleye (do they live in Lake Champlain?).

[Angel30]

The Imax film of whales scared the crap out of me. Absolutely immense creatures swimming up to me would freak me out.

Every few years, somebody writes a feature story about the supposed "monster" living in Lake Erie. I'm absolutely certain there are plenty of creatures on this earth and in the seas that we have yet to discover. The video these two fishermen caught isn't convincing though. The one still shot (the "best" glimpse) looked like a really big bass. Or maybe a walleye (do they live in Lake Champlain?).
I thought it looked like a fish too. :confused:

[jneale]

I mean all the unknown crap down there.

Ever see Castaway? Remember the part where he gets off the island and is floating on his raft and the whales surface next to him?
That would scare the shit out of me.

I don't do Tom Hanks movies.

[Homsar]

Not even Toy Story???

[Sushi]

I don't do Tom Hanks movies.
I'm gonna have to send you the pic of me and Tom Hanks just to piss you off... ;)

[jneale]

Not even Toy Story???
I took kids & I didn't have to look @ him.

He is just too homogenized for me – same in every roll – sometimes fat, sometimes slender, sometimes with facial hair – but underneath the same old stick of margarine. I choke when people say he is such a great actor – he continually plays the roll he played in bosom buddies sans skirt.

Back to lake monsters…..

[wileE]

They re-ran the "Searching For Champ" or whatever special on Discovery just last weekend. It's nothing new though. Champ sightings go back to colonial times. Vermont's minor league baseball team is even called the Lake Monsters. Champ is their mascot.

http://vermontlakemonsters.com.ismmedia.com/ISM2//TextBlocks/champdugout.jpg
That doesn't look like an oarfish.