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| Sandra Mansi's photo of Champ, taken in 1977 |
There's a new article online about Champ, the lake monster of lake champlain, which is located between New York and Vermont and extends a little up into Canada. Katy Elizabeth and Dennis Hall have been searching for Champ lately and have recorded what they think could be the monster. They think Champ could be a tanystropheus, and Hall even came up with a name for the creature a long time ago: Champtanystropheus. I will correct the article at one point now: it says that tanystropheus was a dinosaur that lived 232 million years ago. Tany was not a dinosaur.
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| A cool picture of the ancient reptile Tanystropheus |
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| Tanystropheus sie compared to a human |
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Here's a little on Champ from my upcoming book Cryptid U.S.: Tales of Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, and More from Across America.
"By far, the
most famous American lake monster is “Champ” of Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain
is located between New York and Vermont and extends a little up into Canada. The
lake is 109 miles long and its maximum depth is 400 feet - that’s plenty of
room for a monster to hide. Lake Champlain is the largest oligotrophic lake in
the U.S. with the exception of the great lakes. A couple thousand years ago,
the lake was part of a larger body of water called the Champlain Sea, an arm of
the Atlantic Ocean. Eventually the lake was cut off from the rest of the sea
and became fresh water.
What could be
the first sighting of a monster in Lake Champlain occurred in the year 1609.
According to historians, Samuel de Champlain, who the lake is named after, saw “a
serpent-like creature, about 20 feet long, as thick as a barrel, and with a
head like a horse.”"
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