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	Lake Van Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lake Van Monster (Turkish: Van Gölü Canavarı) was not reported until 1995 in Lake Van, a large alkaline lake in Eastern Turkey.
		Following these reports the Turkish government sent an official scientific survey group to the lake who failed to spot the creature.
		In 1997 a local man, Unal Kozak, a teaching assistant at Van University, captured the creature on video which was sent for analysis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Van_Monster (183 words)

	lake monster
		The most famous lake monster is certainly the Loch Ness Monster, which for many decades has been reported to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
		Flathead Lake in Montana, Lake Tianchi in China, Bala Lake in Wales, the White River in Alabama.
		One theory holds that the monsters that are sighted are the occasional full-grown form of an amphibian species that generally stays juvenile all its life like the axolotl.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Lake_monster.php (748 words)

	Lake monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake monster is the name given to large unknown animals which have purportedly been sighted in, and/or are believed to dwell in lakes, although their existence has never been confirmed scientifically.
		They are generally believed not to exist by conventional Zoology and allied sciences, and are principally the subject of investigations by followers of Cryptozoology.
		Sightings are often similar to some sea monsters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_monster (103 words)

	AMERICAN MONSTERS
		Over 250 lakes worldwide are the reputed homes of these large, unidentified creatures, which are perhaps the most famous in all the annals of cryptozoology.
		Although there are lake monsters of all types and sizes, the archetypical description is that of a large, saurian creature with a thick - almost whale-like - body and a long, tapering neck, which culminates in a small head.
		They are loathed by the scientists who hope to legitimize whichever body of water they are working in by removing the stigma of a "monster", and they are loved by the tourists who flock yearly to many of these remote locales in the hopes of catching just a glimpse of one of these rare, mini-leviathans.
	www.americanmonsters.com /monsters/lakemonsters/index.php (268 words)

	Lake Van Monster - TinWiki.org
		The Lake Van Monster, which, according to witnesses, is about 15 meters (49.5 feet) long can be compared in many ways to the Loch Ness Monster from the UK, as well as the Lake Champlain Monster (Champ) from the USA.
		Lake Van (Turkish: Van Gölü) is the largest lake in Turkey and the second largest in the Middle East, located in the far east of the country.
		Unlike the Loch Ness Monster there is no clear date or indication of the first sighting of the Lake Van monster, or when the legend was born.
	tinwiki.org /wiki/Lake_Van_Monster (1446 words)

	The measure of a Monster: investigating the Champ photo - Lake Champlain Skeptical Inquirer - Find Articles
		The lake (and therefore the monster) is named for explorer Samuel de Champlain, who is often--but erroneously--said to have been the first to report the creature.
		Lake creature sightings are complicated by the fact that it is very difficult to judge distances and sizes on bodies of water.
		In the case of Champ, the monster's likeness and legend are well-known in the area, and the knowledge that a monster is said to reside in the lake could easily transform an unusual sighting of "something in the water" into a Champ sighting.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_4_27/ai_104733235 (876 words)

	Unseen Creatures: Lake & Sea Monsters
		In the case of monster carcasses washed ashore, they are often the decaying bodies of whales or sharks.
		The monster is reportedly 10 to 12 m (30 to 40 ft) long.
		The creature of Okanagan lake was known to the aboriginal population as "N’ha-a-itk", meaning "lake monster" or "lake demon." The Amerindians accepted its existence as a fact of life, occasionally canoeing to a cave believed to be its home and leaving food offerings.
	library.thinkquest.org /27979/html/seamonsters.htm (2019 words)

	The Lake Worth Monster
		They were so plainly terrified that, as unlikely as their story sounded, the officers had no problem believing the six had seen something well out of the ordinary.
		In the preceding couple of months other reports of a monster had been received but were attributed to pranks.
		Another three men claimed the monster jumped on their car and only jumped off after the vehicle collided with a tree.
	www.subversiveelement.com /LakeWorthMonster.html (647 words)

	Lake Monsters: The Lake Storsjön Monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Like the Loch Ness Monster, one of the numerous theories is that during the Ice Age 15,000 years ago, the monster may have become trapped in the Swedish Lake.
		Loch Ness and Lake Storsjön are not isolated cases of lakes that are believed to harbor monsters.
		There is a common pattern in the lake monster puzzle: the animals all are found in lake and river systems that are either connected to the sea or have been in the past, and these systems all either harbor or once harbored migratory fish.
	www.strangemag.com /lakestorsjonmonster.html (346 words)

	Lake Norman Monster - Does something lurk in the depths of Lake Norman North Carolina? The residents of Lake Norman ...
		One lake resident that has baffled local scientist is the appearance of a species of freshwater jellyfish that is not indigenous to either Lake Norman or the Catawba River that feeds the lake.
		Caught on film in late 2001 was a alligator sunning itself on the banks of Lake Wylie (the lake downstream from Lake Norman).
		The Lake Hodges Scientific Research Center presents some pretty convincing evidence for the existence of "Hodgee" the lake monster.
	www.lakenormanmonster.com /speculation.shtml (561 words)

	Lake Monsters \| Loch Ness \| Scotland \| Myth \| Ogopogo \| Champ \| Lake Champlain \| Nessie \| Nahuelito \| Argentina \| Sea ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lake Monsters - The Loch Ness Monster (Nessie)
		The Ogopogo lake monster is said to resemble Nessie, the Loch Ness monster.
		Lake Champlain's lake monster is described as having one to two humps on its back, is 15 to 25 feet long and is dark in color.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p2206.htm (505 words)

	Champ (Lake Monster) - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Also both lakes were formed during the Ice Age about 10,000 years ago and both lakes support enough populations of fish to adequately feed a supposed Sea or Lake monster (Krystek 1).
		Mansi turned toward the area of the lake monster in response to her children screaming.
		Zarzynski—founder of the Lake Champlain Phenomena Investigation and a Wilton, New York Social Studies teacher—took the photo to Gorge Zug of the Smithsonian Institute’s Department of Vertebrate Zoology.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Champ_(Lake_Monster) (959 words)

	The Lake Worth Monster - Fate October 1992
		The police concluded tentatively that someone was either dressed in a monster or ape costume or threw a dummy or animal hide of some sort on the car.
		When it seemed that people were ready to go after the monster, it grabbed a spare tire with a rim on it and threw it at the onlookers' cars.
		And, in a most bizarre incident, shots fired at the monster one night produced a large pool of blood with a trail of blood to the edge of the water, accompanied by some large tracks.
	www.texasbigfoot.com /Fate1092.html (1452 words)

	Sea monster - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sea monsters are often miscategorized as mythical, but are actually legendary gigantic sea-dwelling creatures (but see also lake monsters).
		The decorative drawings of heraldic dolphins and sea monsters that were frequently used throughout history to illustrate maps died away with modern cartography (see for example the Carta marina).
		Another modern example of a "sea monster" was the strange creature washed up on the Chilean sea shore in July 2003.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Sea_monster (709 words)

	The Shadowlands Sea Serpent page
		Lake Champlain, is a lake that is 109 miles long on the boarders of New York and Vermont.
		A journalist in the 1960’s found that the sighting may not have been in the lake at all,that it is more likely that the first sighting of the lake monster was off the coast of the St. Lawrence estuary.
		Lake Tahoe, California is the home to a water creature known to the locals as Tessie.
	theshadowlands.net /serpent.htm (8501 words)

	Monster Tracker - search for Champ, the Lake Champlain monster
		Champ is supposedly the monster that lives in lake Champlain.
		The lake is deep, at an adverage of sixty-four feet deep.
		These are the characteristics of a Boreal Forest lake, which would be, by Wedsters definition for boreal:of, relating to, or located in northern regions.
	www.monstertracker.com /champ.html (385 words)

	Flathead Lake Monster
		The topics, ranging from the myth and history of mermaids (which we now know as manatees and dugongs) to the strange blobs that have washed up on several beaches in the past century, to the giant squid which Ellis would go on to write an entire book about, are fascinating.
		The degree of detail he goes into when describing both the mythology behind these monsters, and the science and natural history of the creatures we now believe formulated these myths is amazing.
		From the Midgard Serpent and Leviathan, through to the Kraken, these monsters from the deep are brought dramatically to life with completely original and breathtaking new paintings by Bob Eggleton, multiple winner of the Hugo Award for Best Artist and the best-selling artist of ‘Godzilla’.
	www.occultopedia.com /f/flathead_lake_monster.htm (3779 words)

	CNN - Sea monster or monster hoax? - June 12, 1997
		VAN, Eastern Turkey (WTN) -- Sightings of the Lake Van monster were first reported about two years ago, but further evidence was offered on Tuesday: bad quality amateur pictures of something long and dark moving in the middle of the lake.
		Public opinion is divided over whether the Lake Van monster is a clever hoax to attract visitors to a region that could use some tourist revenue.
		The city of Van is in an underdeveloped area of eastern Turkey that for years has lost out to holiday resorts in the west of the country.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9706/12/fringe/turkey.monster (251 words)

	Bear Lake Monster may have a long-lost cousin . . . in Sweden
		The Utah UFO Hunters Investigation Team, Utah Hotspots, Bear Lake Monster may have a long-lost cousin.
		Lake Storsjoen, Sweden's fifth largest, is home to what one witness described as "a snakelike animal with a dog's head and fins." Since the Serpent of Storsjoe first appeared in 1635, around 500 people have seen the beast.
		"The small ripples in the lake were breaking against the humps making them stand out," Hirschi recalled, and he thought it was a lost water ski and its boots.
	www.aliendave.com /Article_BearLakeMonstersCousin.html (773 words)

	Lake Monsters: Ogopogo, Canadian Lake Monster
		One oft-mentioned characteristic of the monster is its resemblance to a log.
		When crossing the lake during bad weather, the Indians always carried a small animal that they would toss overboard in the middle of the lake to appease the monster, according to material in the files of the Kelowna Archives.
		Monster hunters from all over the world have been drawn to the area for research purposes, and many of the sightings have been as strong or stronger than those at Loch Ness.
	www.strangemag.com /ogopogo.html (1286 words)

	FarShores CryptoCorner News: Utah's Bear Lake Monster
		Hirschi said he believes the monster approached his boat to determine whether it was a similar species.
		Conrad Nebeker, the Indian Creek resident who constructed the boat in 1996 to entertain his grandkids, modeled it as closely as possible after eyewitness accounts of the monster, which is said to be a green, slimy, serpent-like creature with red eyes, fangs and bunchy ears.
		However, based on his encounter, he's decided to add red lights to replicate the monster's glowing eyes, a smoke machine to emanate mist from the replicas nostrils and an audio device to play a roaring sound.
	farshores.org /c04mon2.htm (863 words)

	LiveScience.com - Investigators Search for Canadian Lake Monster
		Sources refer vaguely to early "Indian legends" of the monster and sporadic reports of a "sea serpent" in the lake during the nineteenth century.
		The sightings in Lake Simcoe could be explained by several otters, such as this one, swimming together.
		Joe Nickell is Senior Research Fellow at the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal; he is co-author (with Benjamin Radford) of "Lake Monster Mysteries," which will be published in May 2006.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/051014_lake_monster.html (710 words)

	Daily Herald - Fishermen find Utah Lake Monster
		Monster stories dropped from the newspapers for a number of years before being briefly resuscitated again in 1877.
		Walker reached a conclusion relating to the Utah Lake Monster that was similar to the conclusion George A. Smith reached concerning the Bear Lake Monster 50 years earlier.
		Utah Lake's monster likely surfaced as the result of the vivid imaginations of Utah County residents being stimulated by strange Ute Water Baby tales, Joseph C. Rich's Bear Lake Monster articles in the Deseret News, illusions caused by the reflecting waters of the lake and a dearth of good optometrists.
	www.heraldextra.com /content/view/178623/4 (2250 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles 1997 Lake Monster sighting report
		Memphre, of course, is a Canadian monster because that is where the lake is deepest but he oftens swims down Lake Memphremagog to visit the United States, where the water is shallow.
		Exactly where he (or she, or they) live is a matter of much speculation but consensus is that the monster lair is in a large dank cavern inside Owls Head mountain.
		Some opine that connecting tunnels radiate from the mountain to all the lakes in the region but this, of course, is pure conjecture and perhaps even horse-pucky.
	www.tomifobia.com /lake_monster/update_1997.html (726 words)

	Monsters
		The legend of the Loch Ness and all the other lake monsters is one of the world’s greatest mysteries.
		A giant, 100 foot-long lake serpent that lurks in the swamps, rivers, and lakes in Uganda, Africa has been feared by natives because of its predatory nature, often taking large mammals or fishermen.
		Thetis Lake, located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is said to be home to a silvery-scaled humanoid with gills that lurks in its waters.
	www.geocities.com /digitalcosmicworm/Monsters.html (1361 words)

	Turtle Lake Monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Often the Turtle Lake Monster is reported to tear apart fishermen's nets, to terrorize boaters, and to scatter schools of fish.
		One thing is definite: the lack of certainty about its appearance has not inhibited local entrepreneurs from selling monster burgers and monster hats on the shore of this pretty lake.
		And judging by the descriptions from the people who've seen it, it's anywhere from three to nine metres in length (10 to 30 feet), with or without a dorsal fin, smooth or scaly, with a head resembling either a dog, a seahorse or a pig.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Saskatchewan/turtle_lake_monster.htm (601 words)

	Bear Lake Monster
		The next day three women and a man saw a monstrous animal in the lake near the same place, but this time it was swimming at an incredible speed.
		They could judge somewhat of the speed by observing known distances on the opposite side of the lake; and all agree that the velocity with which these monsters propelled themselves, was astounding.
		The description of the Monster was the following: A creature with a brown-colored body, somewhat bigger in circumference than a man, anywhere from 40 to 200 feet long.
	bearlakechamber.com /bearlakemonster.htm (840 words)

	Flathead Lake Monster® Inc. - The Legend
		The sales manager before he got the film rolling said he saw the nessie's eyes and sturgeon-like head, but that the body seemed to be more like that of a large eel - at least 12 feet long.
		Sightings over the years have been made in all parts of the lake, at all times of the year, and by a wide variety of people - including professionals, teachers, military officers, farmers, ranchers, business people, mill workers, tourists of all ages.
		Skeptics claimed the fish may have been pulled from the lake, but they theorized it might have been trucked in from elsewhere.
	www.flatheadlakemonster.com /legend.cfm (578 words)

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