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photo were missing. Sandra Mansi said that she had thrown away the negative, and that she could not locate where she snapped the photo. Without the negative or location it was impossible to determine with any degree of certainty what was in the photo. Possessing the negative would allow the image to be magnified to see greater detail, while knowing the location could reveal important clues such as the object's size and distance, and whether the photo was even taken on Lake Champlain. Reines could not authenticate the photo and the story behind it led to big questions and potential red flags detailed in his book.
217:, entitled "Cape Ann Serpent on Lake Champlain", reports a "Capt. Crum" sighting an enormous serpentine monster. Crum estimated the monster to have been about 187 ft (57 m) long and approximately 200 yd (180 m) away from him. Despite the great distance, he claimed to have witnessed it being followed by "two large Sturgeon and a Bill-fish" and was able to see that it had three teeth and eyes the color of peeled onions. He also described the monster as having "a belt of red" around its neck and a white star on its forehead. 1442: 27: 192:, "which varies in length, the largest being, as the people told me, 8 or 10 ft (2.4 or 3.0 m) long. I saw some 5 ft (1.5 m) long, which were as large as my thigh; the head being as big as my two fists, with a snout 2.5 ft (0.76 m) long, and a double row of very sharp and dangerous teeth. Its body is, in shape, very much like that of a pike; but it is armed with scales so strong and a poniard could not pierce them. Its color is silver-gray. 252: 156: 339: 386:'s Bulwagga Bay in July and August, 2022. The film was in post-production as of May, 2023. Newspapers in the Lake Champlain region reported the film was finishing in 2024, with plans to premiere the film in the Lake Champlain region in September, 2024, then screen in theaters, film festivals, and stream on 294:
Based upon appearance and "mysterious alligatorlike tracks" found near Lake Champlain, cryptozoologists Katy Elizabeth and Dennis Hall suggested in 2016 that "Champ" could be a member of the family Crocodylidae (crocodiles). Researcher Scott Mardis explains that the tracks were likely the tracks of a
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program. The group described the sounds as being similar to those produced by Beluga whales or dolphins—neither of which are known to live in Lake Champlain. An article describing the recordings has been published to scientific literature, explaining that the sounds were likely a form of echolocation
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by Robert E. Bartholomew, it is further revealed that the original photo was sent to Philip Reines, a nautical expert at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, so that he could examine and hopefully authenticate it. Reines quickly realized that the two most vital elements in verifying the
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Champ reportedly can be seen in a video taken by fishermen Dick Affolter and his stepson Pete Bodette in the summer of 2005. Close examination of the images may be interpreted either as a head and neck of a plesiosaur-like animal and even an open mouth in one frame and a closed mouth in another; or
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In 1883, Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney claimed that he had seen a water serpent about "20 rods" (the equivalent of 110 yd (100 m) in length) from where he was on the shore. He claimed that he was so close that he could see "round white spots inside its mouth" and that "the creature appeared to
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image is visible in the bottom right portion of the screen, swimming behind a boat containing the two lead actors in the film. The boat was 142 inches from the tip of the bow to the stern and 50.5 inches at the widest point and the alleged plesiosaur appears bigger than the boat.
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In 1977, Sandra Mansi took a photograph while on vacation with her family that appears to show the dinosaur with his head out of the lake. The entire bay of the lake where the photograph reportedly was taken is no deeper than 14 feet (4.3 m). According to
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team's mascot. This mascot version of Champ appears as a special guest at various charitable and other functions throughout Vermont. Several nearby establishments, including a car wash, use images of Champ as a logo.
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forensic image analysts, who reviewed the tape, said it appears authentic and unmanipulated, one of them added that "there's no place in there that I can actually see an animal or any other object on the surface".
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One piece of evidence, though not a "sighting" per se, is the recording of sounds from within the lake by the Fauna Communications Research Institute in 2003, working as part of a
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be about 25 to 30 ft (7.6 to 9.1 m) in length". Mooney's sighting led to many more alleged eyewitnesses coming forward with their own accounts of Champ.
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Still shot from 5 minute drone footage of Champ swimming behind boat containing two lead actors in the "Lucy & the Lake Monster" film
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large snapping turtle and also mentions the longnose gar or the lake sturgeon as more probable candidates for "Champ."
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There is also a great abundance of fish, of many varieties: among others, one called by the savages of the country
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One of the co-writers, Kelly Tabor, believes it to be Champ. The second co-writer and director of the film,
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Vonmuggenthaler, Elizabeth; Gregory, Joseph; Mardis, Scott H. (2010). "Echolocation in a fresh water lake".
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P.T. Barnum believes that a huge sea serpent exists, and has renewed his offer of $ 20,000 for the reptile.
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I hereby offer $ 50,000 for the hide of the great Champlain Serpent to add to my Mammoth World's Fair Show.
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The original story is related to Iroquois legends of giant snakes, which the Mohawk named Onyare'kowa.
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Mardis, Scott (Fall 2016). Radford, Benjamin (ed.). "A Champlain 'Croc' of Mythic Proportions".
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The Champ legend has become a revenue-generating attraction. For example, the village of
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Cameramen film on Lake Champlain for the film "Lucy & the Lake Monster."
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despite none of "the known native creatures" being able to echolocate.
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Over the years, there have been over 300 reported sightings of Champ.
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team since their inception, and continues to serve as the
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In 2022, it was reported that a feature dramatic film,
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Alleged lake monster in Lake Champlain, United States
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The 1878 translation of his journals clarifies that
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Index


Lake Monster
Sea Serpent
Loch Ness Monster
Ogopogo
Altamaha-ha
United States
Canada
Lake Champlain
American folklore
lake monster
Lake Champlain
New York
Vermont
Quebec
Burlington, Vermont
Plattsburgh, New York

Samuel de Champlain
Vermont Life
gar (or gar pike)
Lepisosteus osseus
P. T. Barnum

Joe Nickell
Benjamin Radford

Joe Nickell
FBI
Discovery Channel

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