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Lake monster or loch monster is the name given to large unknown animals which have purportedly been sighted in, and/or are believed to dwell in freshwaters, 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. Zoology (from Greek: ζῴον, zoion, animal; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...
Cryptozoology (from Greek: κÏυπτός, kryptós, hidden; ζῷον, zôon, animal; and λόγος, logos, knowledge or study – zoology) is the search for animals hypothesized to exist, but for which conclusive proof is missing. ...
For the television series about extinct sea animals, see Sea Monsters. ...
Of these, Nessie of Loch Ness is almost certainly the most famous, and is promoted heavily in the area's tourist industry. For other uses, see nessie (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the body of water in Scotland. ...
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Lakes with monsters
Arguably the most famous lake monster is the Loch Ness Monster, which for many decades has been reported to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland. In more recent years, similar animals have been widely reported, such as Ogopogo in Okanagan Lake in the heart of British Columbia, Manipogo in Lake Manitoba, Flathead Lake Monster in Flathead Lake Montana, and Champ in Lake Champlain. For other uses, see Loch Ness Monster (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the body of water in Scotland. ...
Ogopogo is the name given a lake monster reported to live in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada. ...
Okanagan Lake is a large, deep lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. ...
Manipogo is the name given to the lake monster reported to live in Lake Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. ...
Lake Manitoba is a large (4,624 sq. ...
Map of Lake Champlain Champ is the ultimate insult that can be given from a person from the younger generation to an elder. ...
Landsat photo Lake Champlain (French: lac Champlain) is a large lake in North America, mostly within the borders of the United States (states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the US-Canada border in the province of Quebec. ...
There are many other lakes around the world which have monsters claimed for them (see list below). Many of these lakes are extraordinarily deep.
Evidence for the monsters Evidence for such animals is almost exclusively in the form of frequently-numerous eyewitness reports. Relatively few still photographs, almost no motion picture or videotapes, and no living animals or animal remains have been produced. Such photographic/film/video evidence as has been produced has, upon close analysis, been concluded by the majority of mainstream scientists (and many cryptozoologists) to be inconclusive at best, and more often to be misidentified, known phenomena or else outright hoaxes. In the case of the famous surgeon's photo of the Loch Ness Monster, one of the hoaxers has come forward, but believers dismiss his testimony. Reported sightings commonly describe either a hump or series of humps, an extremely long neck with a visible head, or both, rising from, swimming about in, and/or disappearing into the water. Reports of such animals being seen on land are rare. For other uses, see Loch Ness Monster (disambiguation). ...
Explanations There are many speculations as to what the reported lake monsters could be. Many consider them to be purely exaggerations or misinterpretations of known and natural phenomena, or else fabrications and hoaxes. Misidentified sightings of seals, otters, deer, diving water birds, large fish such as giant sturgeons, logs, mirages, seiches, light distortion, crossing boat wakes, or unusual wave patterns have all been proposed to explain specific reports. Skeptics point out that descriptions of these creatures vary over time with the values and mood of the local cultures, following the pattern of folk beliefs and not what would be expected if the reports were of actual encounters with real animals. Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae Pinnipeds (fin-feet, lit. ...
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Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Thalassorninae Anserinae Stictonettinae Plectropterinae Tadorninae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Oxyurinae and see text Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. ...
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Sturgeon is a term for a genus of fish (Acipenser) of which 26 species are known. ...
Logging is the process in which trees are cut down usually as part of a timber harvest which is good for the environment. ...
This article is about the optical phenomenon. ...
A seiche (pronounced saysh) or an underwater wave is a standing wave in a body of water. ...
A wake is the region of turbulence immediately to the rear of a solid body caused by the flow of air or water around the body. ...
Surface waves in water This article is about waves in the most general scientific sense. ...
According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren (1980), the present day belief in lake-monsters in for example Loch Ness, is associated with the legends of kelpies. Sjögren claims that the accounts of lake-monsters have changed during history. Older reports often talk about horse-like appearances, but more modern reports often have more reptile and dinosaur-like-appearances, and Bengt Sjögren concludes that the legends of kelpies evolved into the present day legends of lake-monsters where the monsters changed the appearance since the discovery of dinosaurs and giant aquatic reptiles from the horse-like water-kelpie to a dinosaur-like reptile, often a plesiosaur. Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now often viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines of integrative organismal biology. ...
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This article is about the mythological creature. ...
Orders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are giant reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. ...
Families Plesiosaurs (IPA ) (Greek: plesios, near to + sauros, lizard) were large, carnivorous aquatic reptiles. ...
Other widely varied theories have been presented by believers, including unknown species of giant freshwater eels or surviving aquatic, prehistoric reptiles, such as plesiosaurs. 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. A few have suggested the animals actually represent some sort of psychic phenomena. Some have also suggested a Tanystropheus, although there are very few supporters for this theory. More reasonably, the first true cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans held throughout his life that plesiosaur-type sighting were actually an unknown species of long-necked seal. For other uses, see Eel (disambiguation). ...
Families Plesiosaurs (IPA ) (Greek: plesios, near to + sauros, lizard) were large, carnivorous aquatic reptiles. ...
Binomial name (Shaw, 1789) The Axolotl (or ajolote) (Ambystoma mexicanum) is the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders belonging to the Tiger Salamander complex. ...
Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ...
Tanystropheus was a 6 metre (20 foot) long reptile that dated from the middle Triassic period. ...
Bernard Heuvelmans (October 10, 1916 – August 22, 2001) was a scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as a founder of cryptozoology. ...
In many of these areas, especially around Loch Ness, Lake Champlain and the Okanagan Valley, these lake monsters have become important tourist draws. The regional districts that comprise the Okanagan are shown in red. ...
In popular culture The X-Files episode Quagmire centers on an alleged lake monster named Big Blue, which is depicted in a painting as being similar in appearance to the Loch Ness Monster. The creature is only seen once, briefly, in the shadows at the end of the episode. X-Files intro from first 8 seasons The X-Files was a popular 1990s American science fiction television series created by Chris Carter. ...
The Joe Citro novel, Dark Twilight, focuses upon New Yorks's lake monster Champ and supposes an extra-dimensional/demonic origin. Joseph A. Citro, occasionally referred as the Bard of the Bizarre (a name first given to him by the Boston Globe) or the Ghost-Master General, is a Vermont author who has extensively researched and documented the folklore, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of Vermont and the rest...
Dark Twilight (recently re-released in 2001 by Hardscrabble Books under its original title of Lake Monsters) is a 1991 horror novel written by famed Vermont author Joseph Citro. ...
Map of Lake Champlain Champ is the ultimate insult that can be given from a person from the younger generation to an elder. ...
In Diana Gabaldon's series of novels about a time traveler from the 20th century to Scotland in the 1700s (popularly called the Outlander series), her main character Claire Randall briefly views a hump and a fin in the water of Loch Ness, and theorizes that the reason the creature appears so rarely is that there is a "time gate", similar to the one Claire herself traveled through, at the bottom of the loch. This gate would link modern Scotland with the Cretaceous Period. Diana Gabaldon (born January 11, 1952) is an American author of Mexican and English ancestry. ...
Outlander (1991) is a historical fiction novel, written by Diana Gabaldon. ...
The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period (about 135 mya) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary period (65 mya). ...
In the Pokémon Franchise, many of the creatures, Lapras, for example, is greatly based on a lake monster. Also, in the new video games, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, in the three lakes of the new Sinnoh reigon, live one legendary Pokémon each. Uxie is Lake Acuity, Mesprit in Lake Verity, and Azelf, in Lake Valor. The official Pokémon logo. ...
Lapras , Laplace in original Japanese language versions) are one of the 493 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar[1] Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. ...
For other uses, see Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (disambiguation). ...
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Legendary Pokémon ), sometimes known as legendaries or mirage Pokémon ), are characters in the Pokémon franchise. ...
Uxie , Yuxie in original Japanese language versions) is one of the 493 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar[1] Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media, created by Satoshi Tajiri. ...
Mesprit , Emrit in original Japanese language versions) is one of the 493 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar[1] Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media, created by Satoshi Tajiri. ...
Azelf , Agnome in original Japanese language versions) is one of the 493 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar[1] Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media, created by Satoshi Tajiri. ...
Lake monster locations and names
Argentina Lake Nahuel Huapi from space (the elongate, dark feature in the center of the image is the lake and in the bottom is seen the Limay River), North is to the right of the image, January 1997 Nahuel Huapi Lake (Spanish: Lago Nahuel Huapi) is a lake of the lake...
Nahuelito is a lake monster cryptid said to inhabit the Nahuel Huapi Lake of Patagonia, Argentina. ...
Australia The bunyip (usually translated as devil or spirit[1]) is a mythical creature from Australian folklore. ...
Canada Lake Manitoba is a large (4,624 sq. ...
Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Official languages English French (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 14 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 15, 1870 (5th) Area Ranked 8th Total 647,797...
Manipogo is the name given to the lake monster reported to live in Lake Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. ...
Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth largest lake in the province. ...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 107 Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area...
Okanagan Lake is a large, deep lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. ...
Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 36 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area Ranked 5th Total 944...
Ogopogo is the name given a lake monster reported to live in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada. ...
Lake Memphremagog (Lac Memphrémagog in Quebec) is a freshwater lake located between Newport, Vermont, United States and Magog, Quebec, Canada. ...
This article is about the Canadian province. ...
Muskrat Lake is located in the Whitewater Region of Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. ...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 107 Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area...
Mussie is a sea monster allegedly living in Muskrat Lake, 75 miles northwest of Ottawa. ...
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Iceland Kleifarvatn is a lake on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland. ...
Ireland Lough Ree (Loch Rí in Irish) is a lake in the midlands of Ireland, the second of the three major lakes on the River Shannon. ...
Italy Lake Garda (Italian Lago di Garda or Benaco) is the largest lake in Italy. ...
Lake Maggiore (in Italian: Lago Maggiore or lago Verbano) is the most westerly of the three large prealpine lakes of Europe and the second largest after Lake Garda. ...
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Malaysia Tasik Chini is a series of 12 lakes near the Pahang River in central Pahang, Malaysia. ...
Norway Mjøsa is Norways largest lake. ...
Russia Baikal redirects here. ...
This article is about Siberia as a whole. ...
Artists impression of the Brosno dragon (BROSNYA) Lake Brosno is situated in the European part of Russia, in the Tver region, near the town of Andreapol. ...
Lake Khaiyr is a remote volcanic lake situated in the Yakutia region of eastern Siberia. ...
Sweden Torne träsk (in literal English translation, never used, Torne Swamp) is the name of a lake in north-west Lappland in northernmost Sweden, in the Scandinavian mountain range. ...
Norrbotten is the name of an unofficial Province (landskap) in Sweden, originally a part of Västerbotten, which gradually grow apart from Västerbotten after the creation of Norrbotten County in 1810. ...
Västerbotten is the name of a geographical region in Sweden and Finland which can refer to: Westrobothnia, or Västerbotten - a historical Province of the Swedish Realm Laponia, or Lappland - a historical Province of the Swedish Realm Part of Västerbotten County, or Västerbottens län - a current...
Västmanland? is a historical Province or landskap in middle Sweden. ...
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(help· info), is a historical province or landskap in the center of Sweden. ...
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Hälsingland?, is a historical province or landskap in the north of Sweden. ...
Judarn is the name of a small lake in Bromma, a western suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. ...
For other uses, see Stockholm (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Stockholm (disambiguation). ...
On the country map, the slit-shaped lake Vättern is easily identified in the south Lake Vättern Vättern is the second largest lake (by surface area) in Sweden, after lake Vänern. ...
(help· info) is a historical Province (landskap) in the south of Sweden. ...
Närke is the name of a geographical region in Sweden which can refer to: Nericia, or Närke - a historical Province of Sweden Part of Örebro County, or Örebro län - a current County of Sweden Part of Närke and Värmland County, or Närkes och V...
is a historical province (landskap) in southern Sweden. ...
The lake of Sommen is a Swedish lake. ...
is a county, province and municipality of Sweden and the second largest island in the Baltic Sea after Zealand. ...
is one of the historical provinces of Sweden (landskap), situated in the southwest of Sweden. ...
Bullaren are two lakes in Bohuslän in western Sweden. ...
, (Latin: Bahusia; Norwegian: Båhuslen) is a province (landskap) in West Sweden (Västsverige). ...
Turkey Lake Van Armenian: ; (Turkish: Van Gölü; Kurdish: ) is the largest lake in Turkey, located in the far east of the country. ...
United Kingdom For Scotland please see List of Scottish loch-monsters List of Scottish loch-monsters is a list of freshwater lochs in Scotland alleged to have monsters. ...
Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid in Welsh) was the largest natural body of water in Wales prior to the level being raised to help support the flow of the Llangollen Canal. ...
This article is about the country. ...
Map of the lake from 1925 Bassenthwaite Lake seen from Blackstock Point The south end of Bassenthwaite Lake Bassenthwaite Lake is located in the Lake District in England. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
An Eachy is a name given to a species of lake monster from a variety of locations in northern England and Scotland. ...
Windermere from the north. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
United States This article is about the lake along the Utah-Idaho border. ...
Official language(s) English [1] Capital Boise Largest city Boise Largest metro area Boise metropolitan area Area Ranked 14th - Total 83,642 sq mi (216,632 km²) - Width 305 miles (491 km) - Length 479 miles (771 km) - % water 0. ...
This article is about the U.S. state. ...
Landsat photo Lake Champlain (French: lac Champlain) is a large lake in North America, mostly within the borders of the United States (states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the US-Canada border in the province of Quebec. ...
This article is about the U.S. state. ...
Map of Lake Champlain Champ is the ultimate insult that can be given from a person from the younger generation to an elder. ...
The Chesapeake Bay - Landsat photo The Chesapeake Bay where the Susquehanna River empties into it. ...
Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area Ranked 42nd - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²) - Width 101 miles (145 km) - Length 249 miles (400 km) - % water 21 - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N...
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For other uses, see Clear Lake (disambiguation). ...
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Lake Elsinore is a city located in Riverside County, California. ...
Lake Erie (pronounced ) is the tenth largest lake on Earth[2] and, of the five Great Lakes of North America, is the fourth largest by surface area, the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume. ...
Bessie is a name given to a sea monster in Lake Erie by the locals. ...
Bathymetric Map of Flathead Lake Flathead Lake is the largest natural lake in Montana and the largest freshwater lake in the western United States. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Helena Largest city Billings Area Ranked 4th - Total 147,165 sq mi (381,156 km²) - Width 255 miles (410 km) - Length 630 miles (1,015 km) - % water 1 - Latitude 44° 21′ N to 49° N - Longitude 104° 2′ W to 116° 3′ W Population Ranked...
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Clovis, New Mexico is a small city in Curry County, New Mexico, United States, with a population of approximately 32,700 (2000 census). ...
Pomme de Terre Lake Pomme de Terre Lake is located in south-west Missouri at the confluence of Lindley creek and the Pomme de Terre River (for which it is named). ...
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Raystown Lake is the largest lake in Pennsylvania. ...
Huntingdon is a borough located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. ...
Seneca Lake, one of western New Yorks glacial Finger Lakes, is the largest lake entirely within New York and second deepest lake in the United States, when gauged by its depth below sea level. ...
This article is about the state. ...
For the the Quebec municipality, see Lac-Supérieur. ...
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States. ...
This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ...
Zimbabwe The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi River basin in Southern Africa (28. ...
The Nyaminyami (Zambezi River God) is a Zimbabwean legendary creature created by the Tonga people. ...
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