james bond
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This one is told by an amateur, so wouldn't hold out that she is right about her sonar finding of the Lake Champlain monster.
"Sasquatch and Champ are two legendary Upstate NY creatures that either you believe they exist or you don’t. There’s no definitive proof of either at this point.
Earlier this month, though, Katy Elizabeth, of Ferrisburg, Vt., director of the Champ Search group, claims to have taken a step in confirming the existence of Champ, the legendary Lake Champlain water monster that has been called America’s Loch Ness monster.
Elizabeth has an underwater image -- specifically, two marks on a sonar screen—taken from a speeding boat on the lake. It was taken at about 3 p.m. Aug. 5 while Elizabeth and two members of her group, Frank and Theresa Horton, were out on the group’s 17-foot Bayliner boat doing a 30-mile radius of echo scans of the lake’s bottom on the New York and Vermont sides.
Noticing they were low on gas, the threesome headed back to Port Henry on the New York side, getting up to 45 mph, Elizabeth said. All the time, they keep their sonar on and continued to take pictures of the images that came up on the screen.
The following day, when Elizabeth checked the sonar images, she was amazed as she examined one. She said she started both shaking and crying while looking at it.
“I knew it was Champ,” she said. “There were two animals.”
She estimated one was about 25 feet long – the other, nearly 30 feet long. She added that there were protuberances on their heads."
Looking for Champ: Sonar image could provide proof of Lake Champlain monster
Example of a giant catfish
The other story is that of the Loch Ness monster which broke in April and was supposed to be revealed in July 2019. The evolution scientist and his team were trying to get a tv documentary made of their findings. This story had more promise as the study was to be done by a scientific team to compare DNA samples around the loch with their world renowned DNA database. This was an University of Otago (New Zealand) scientist who, with his team was going to use DNA trace evidence around the lake to discover what animals, fishes, plants, and so on lived in the loch. Interesting premise, but his bias didn't allow him to sell the story of looking for a monster to tv producers. For one, he didn't believe in any monster and thought the eyewitness accounts were just legend. He wanted to answer which of the main theories of the "monster" in Loch Ness were valid or not. To be a neutral scientists, he should be looking for an actual monster or large marine animal, possibly a plesiosaur (not a dinosaur, but large, ancient marine reptile). He never mentioned whether he had any of its DNA. Later, he revealed that he thought the Loch Ness monster was just legend that people made up. That took the wind out of the sails. Moreover, I discovered before his reveal this month, probably this week, that it was a giant catfish. He stated its head was as big as a car's hood. I'm not sure what evidence he had for it, but don't think he wasn't able to sell his story to tv. I'm not even sure if he even was able to capture a giant catfish.
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What do you believe of these stories we get from time to time?