I’m not vitriolic: A study in comments to video posting of lake monsters.

Comments directed at the videographers and not the footage or out and out call this a hoax:

mantis responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Really!!?? That’s supposed to be footage?

MadMatt32171 responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I’m sorry but I can’t see a thing. I wouldn’t have even bothered showing this to anyone if it were my video.

dogu4 responds:
(I hesitate to call them a videographer as that implies a degree of skill that cannot be said to exist in this case)

wolfatrest responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Evidence such as this, and I use the term loosely are what give people who believe in the possibility of such creatures a bad name.

PhotoExpert responds:
June 6th, 2008 at 2:52 am
…Either that or the cameraperson is intentionally trying to create shakiness.
… I believe this one to be fraudulent. It is definitely an attempt at deception or wishful thinking.

steelcut responds:
June 6th, 2008 at 5:58 am
How can someone post a vid like that?… …If someone is shaking like that, I presume he doesn’t want me to see, cause there is nothing to see..

–This next set are redundant and also spaced far enough apart that they weren’t posting at the same time, suggesting all we have time for is commenting how bad photos are or how important our opinions are on topic, even if they have already been expressed.

jodzilla responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
WHAT!

jamesrav responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
did Selma attack the boat at the end? at least *that* would explain the terrible shaking

DARHOP responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Ummm. Are you kidding me? What the heck is that suppose to be showing?

HOOSIERHUNTER responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I’m afraid I can’t help you either. I’m way too sea sick after watching that video. I’m going to lay down now.

ttongue1 responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Where am I going wrong? Zip – nada – nothing -

cmgrace responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I didn’t see anything on the video or the stills

Macleod responds:
June 5th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Pretty lame…….

Allan_Quatermain responds:
June 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I do not See anything.

http://www.strangemag.com/serpentstale.html

If someone is shaking like that, I presume he doesn’t want me to see, cause there is nothing to see..

Any vid with a quality like that is disqualified. There is just no reason nowadays to shoot in quality like that.

Seriously, the water looks relatively calm to me and the camera shakes as if the videographer were trying to balance and counterbalance against a violently yawing boat. Either that or the cameraperson is intentionally trying to create shakiness. Uh, the water looks pretty calm to me there mate! A little uncalled for if you asked me. And whatever is in the water appears to be nothing more than a ripple. Maybe it is a ripple from a bit of wind starting to kick up against the calm water or perhaps it is rebound wake from a passing boat. But a cryptid? I would not even waste my time enhancing such garbage. I believe this one to be fraudulent. It is definitely an attempt at deception or wishful thinking.

In conclusion, a great example of, how did Loren phrase it, ah yes, blobdracontology! It is a perfect example of that. I was going to try and enhance a frame for the fun of it and the amusement of others, but I did not know where the entrance hole or exit hole of the bullet should go. And secondly, I might be coming out with a book and DVD on the massacre of Selma and family. So I don’t want to show the bullet hole or hernia on the beast too early.