Further reading for Lake Monsters
I’d say that of all the cryptids out there in the world, the one group of them that poses the least greatest threat to humanity are the lake monsters. I might even go so far to suggest that they’re among the most lovable, narrowly beating out Mothman for the the mere fact that whenever Mothman shows up, something really fucking bad happens. But wherever there’s a large body of water, there is likely a local legend about an impossible creature which lurks in its depths.
The most well-known of the world’s lake-borne cryptids is also one of the world’s best-known: The Loch Ness monster. I was just as shocked as anyone else when this episode of Last Podcast announced that the legend of the Loch Ness Monsters only goes back to 1933. It was always one of those things that had just come up with human culture for as long as humans lived around the loch. Loch Ness, located in the heart of Scotland, is a long and narrow body of water said to be home to an ancient dinosaur which lurks in its incredible depths.. Unfortunately, the story is shot down by even the slightest amount of scientific skepticism since the Loch’s environmental conditions would be unable to support even a single creature of this magnitude. In the end, it’s likely that Nessie, as she is called by locals and fans, is a local legend which spawned.
Running a close second place to Nessie’s popularity is Champ, the official lake monster of Lake Champlain, which borders Vermont, New York, and Canada, near Montreal. Champ is similar in description to the Loch Ness Monster, in that it is most often described as being of the Pleisiosaur family of dinosaurs: long necks, large bodies, and fins where legs would otherwise be; like a brontosaurus that swims, basically.
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