Comments on: ChampQuest Director’s Disappearance Deepens

By: jetman7

jetman7 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:27 +0000

I live in vergennes vermont and know for a fact that Mr. Hall never left and is in fact still residing in panton vermont. He works as a carpenter and recently completed renovations at the little city market in vergennes.

By: CtHuntress

CtHuntress — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:15:39 +0000

Dennis Hall is not missing, he has simply been doing other things. He has been writing some books. It took some effort but I found some current info on him. I will be contacting him tomorrow.

By: genesis8

genesis8 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:13:36 +0000

I too have found the 410 error on the http://www.champquest.com website. I tried sending Dennis an email and that was returned, as his address is now nonexistent. It is now almost 8 months since the last entry regarding his disappearance. What is the status? Does anyone have any news at all? Has a formal investigation been launched? Anyone contact the police and file a missing persons report? How about just sending him a snail mail letter to his home address?

Definitely very strange.

By: nubosa

nubosa — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:38:06 +0000

Mr. Hall has become one with the beast, Champ. We had a cryptozoologist go missing here in Texas recently. Same deal, lake monster. They had been offered a large sum of money to solve the riddle, once and for all, to track down and kill 'Eddie'. The client supposedly lost his wife and business partner to Eddie. Claims to have witnessed the entire thing.

The boat belonging to the crypto and his diving partner was found floating in the middle of the lake, but no occupants.

Local press receives a mysterious phone call from the guy who claims to have hired them, same dude who lost his wife.

Very strange story, but factual.

Champ, like Eddie, has gotten hungry, and it has begun to feed!

By: turk

turk — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:35:27 +0000

Luckily, I have a copy of Champ Quest 2000 around here somewhere. But, as I recall it is very dry reading. Very informative as far as the ecology and native species of the lake and a guide to when and where sightings are most frequent (as is the intent of the book), but hardly the book to curl up with on a rainy day. It is essentially a scientific tome. Technically, this was supposed to be an annually published guide as I understood it, but I’ve never seen anything more recent than the 2000 edition.

In any case, I hope Mr. Hall is doing ok and just on a bit of a breather. I remember when I contacted him by e-mail a few years back to order the book from him, I asked him where to send the check for it so I could get the book quickly since I had planned a trip to the lake in the near future. He immediately sent it to me without payment and just asked for the check to be sent when I received it (which I did). Very decent and trusting guy to do that for me. Unfortunately, I still never made it to the lake. The planned trip was canceled since it was scheduled within a week of 9/11. Hopefully I can make it out there in the fall.

By: kamoeba

kamoeba — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:20:55 +0000

Thanks for the tip on obtaining Hall’s book, richsd40. I went there just now but no luck. So I did a quick Google search and all I came up with was Amazon.com again. This is what Amazon.com has to say about Champ Quest 2000:

“Availability: Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this title will be in stock again.”

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:11:59 +0000

Maybe he is just taking a sabbatical of sorts, or taking a year off to get in touch with his inner Champ, or something. Have there been any missing persons reports of any kind filed? If not I think maybe the dude is just going incognito and recharging for awhile.

I know I would if I could.

By: Neworderedworld

Neworderedworld — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:26:08 +0000

So it looks so far that this wasn’t a planned disappearance, I mean DARHOP mentioned that he may have just got fed up of the attention and has gone into hiding.

But judging by richd40s comment about him being genuinely enthusiastic about his current project(s) it may not be a positive verdict and there must’ve been some hint of him not enjoying this field of work before if going into hiding is the case.

By: richsd40

richsd40 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:07:23 +0000

As I stated to the “ChampTrackers” group, Dennis sent me some info back in early Dec. to help me when I Emailed him that I would be going up there in June ‘07, and his Email seemed very enthusiastic and helpful, but I have not heard from him since. He seemed so dedicated to the cause! Also, anyone trying to buy his Champquest 2000 book might try alibris.com –A few years ago I was able to find pre-’70’s Nessie books there that I had been stupid enough to misplace as a kid after I read them!

By: Neworderedworld

Neworderedworld — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:56:23 +0000

Another scenario could be that he did get some footage or proper images of the Champ and is now being or has been hunted down by a secret organization that doesn’t want the truth getting out.

But I guess we can speculate until the cows come home as there are so many possibilities, I guess we gotta keep our eyes out for clues that come our way.