After hundreds of years: Has the mystery of the monster living in the lake in the USA been solved? - Voila! Tourism

The story of the sea monster Champ in Lake Champion (Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 2)

The mystery of the "Loch Ness Monster" in Scotland is a well-known urban legend about a legendary monster that supposedly lives in a Scottish lake.

But it turns out that there is also an American version of this monster - the "Champ" is a monstrous creation that, according to local legend, resides in Lake Champaign, which is near New York.

These mysterious creatures often have a disappointing explanation - because what makes more sense: that a huge Plesiosaurus somehow survived alone for tens of millions of years in a lonely Scottish lake, only peeking out of the water from time to time in front of the odd tourist every few years - or that these are some ducks that from a distance look like the head of a monster?

The same goes for Bigfoot, the giant North American forest ape that is (sorry to say) apparently a combination of poor moose evidence.

His eastern cousin Haiti is also probably a bear (or a man in disguise), while the moth-man phenomenon can be more plausibly explained by the existence of birds.

This is what the American "Miracle King Monster" looks like

Now it's Chump's turn, North America's answer to the Loch Ness monster, this monstrous creature supposedly lives in a body of fresh water shared by New York, Vermont and Quebec.

"The tracks of the 'Champ' have been seen hundreds of times, when according to the reports it is a large production that has been in the lake for over 200 years," explained the scientific website iflscience in an article on the subject, "the reports of people who saw the monster in the lake doubled within a decade following a published image in 1981".

has the great mystery been solved?

A professor claims that he knows who the Loch Ness monster is.

Thanks to the corona virus, the clearest picture ever of the Loch Ness monster was found.

The Mansi photo has been described as the very best photo of a lake monster ever, has been taken seriously - as a real photo of a giant, unknown animal species - by many scientists, but has also been decried a hoax, and investigated as a misidentification.

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But despite the hype created around the photo, it was never used as conclusive proof that "Champ" actually existed.

Biological experts have not been able to verify the image in any way.

Sandra Muncie, who took the photo in 1977, was unable to verify the exact location where it was taken.

In fact, even before the image was released, experts at the Smithsonian Institution said it was impossible to even verify whether the object in the image was even alive.

So what is it really?

Nevertheless, the legend continued to grow, attracting thousands of tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of its snake-like life.

In recent years, more than 300 reports of her sightings have been documented, most of which are remarkably different from each other in the description of what they saw: "Most of the sightings lack data pertaining to morphological description, and those with data describe objects with a very different appearance," reads an article on the subject in bioRxiv.

In fact, the only similarity between the sightings is the conditions in which they occurred: most of them happened on a summer evening or afternoon, when the lake was calm and with poor lighting conditions.

And what about them?

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"In conclusion, if it is not a forgery, what is in the lake may be completely normal phenomena and animals that are mistaken for unfamiliar animals, partly due to excessive expectations created after the publication of the first photograph," concludes the author.

"The second possibility is that the lake is inhabited by multi-humped, dark-colored snakes about seven meters long, which move in a fast and twisting manner, and prefer to appear only in the afternoon of a pleasant summer evening and not in front of crowds," he stings, "the decision which explanation fits the data and is more logical remains in your hands ".

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