Comments on: Cousteau and Tessie

By: buscadora

buscadora — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:26:22 +0000

George Knapp, an investigative journalist in Las Vegas mentioned Mr. Cousteau’s comment on this evenings broadcast of Coast to Coast.

He brought the comment up in context of an observation about the naval undersea warfare (submarine) base operating in Nevada. There seems to be a group of thought the United States government has access to Lake Tahoe as well, and his statement was put into context of what our government is up to, not an undersea monster.

If you have yet to listen to the broadcast of this show, available nation wide, they address many of the subject matter on this site.

By: The Deputy

The Deputy — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:10:43 +0000

Ok let me first say that my mind is at awe with this Topic the Great Jacques Cousteau Footage. A Friend and I were Talking today about this Footage. That he said he saw. It was Jacques Cousteau in a sub looking at a Large Creature under the water, it had Feet and It was walking on the sea or lake bed. It turned and looked at the sub and than Ran away on the bottom of what ever sea or lake Bed. And then the camera looks at Jacques Cousteau he is at some what of a loss for words kind of stuttering. Now My Friend said it was on a Channel like, Discovery Channel, National Geographic or Travel he was not sure. Now with this info could someone inform me was this some type of, if it was it could have been type of show or was this “The Real Deal” I don’t know the channel to search but maybe some of you do? I have looked over the net and only thing I find is blogs about it. Please Help.

By: skywatcher

skywatcher — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:49:55 +0000

As a long time resident of South Lake Tahoe and member of the local UFO club, I can assure you that there are plenty of mysterious things going on around this lake. As far as Tessie is concerned, I have personally spoken with many long time fisherman that claim to have caught a huge makinaw, only to reel in a fish that was eaten from the head down. Also many fisherman have seen a large reptilian creature swimming under their boats. As far as the Jacques Couseau quote. I believe what he saw was either underwater UFO’s or possibly aliens themselves leftover from the secret military complex that was inside the mountains east of the lake which was sealed up in the early 60’s. Regardless, I have personally seen many UFO’s over the lake and possibly Jacques saw one under water.

By: rbhess

rbhess — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:06:49 +0000

Okay… puh-leeze. To begin with, intact bodies (with pinstripe suits, spats and fedoras, no less) are an impossibility for the reason Proriter gives. So let’s just put that to bed, shall we?

As for Jacques Cousteau (one of my personal heroes, by the way)… the man was a consummate showman, filmmaker, promoter and popularizer of science. The very idea that, if he discovered anything unusual in Lake Tahoe, he’d then let it remain secret, and un-studied… well that’s just absurd.

By: nicki_san

nicki_san — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:02:14 +0000

Considering what i have heard from all of you guys i have to say that it really is a stretch to say that there are “hundreds of bodies” at the bottom of the lake. If Jacques Cousteau really did dive down there, what could freak him out so much that he acts like it never happened? There has to be somthing that wasn’t mentioned in the article that could have caused this. Before we assume what he could’ve found we should find out answers to questions
like, did he spend an unusual amount of time, or did he have somthing that he didnt have before when he went down.

Also i agree with what “dogu4″ said. “Perhaps one of Tahoe’s local richistanians will buy one of the new generation of personal submarines and take a look.” The only way we will find out what is down there is if we go there ourselves.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:37:34 +0000

Very interesting…Perhaps one of Tahoe’s local richistanians will buy one of the new generation of personal submarines and take a look. It does puzzle me as to what could be down there, naturally. The fact that it too is a post glacial lake is noteworth, considering that so many other lake sightings originate from other deep post-glacial surface waters.
One area that’s not post-glacial per se, and yet is known to hold a vast storehouse of organic material is the Black Sea with it’s well documented anaerobic environment. Instead of a 1950’s era gangland vicitm, perhaps the Black Sea will provide us with some geniuinely cryptic evidence about the world around the Black Sea over the last 5 thousand years.

By: proriter

proriter — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:25:25 +0000

Speaking as someone who spent a good part of his young adult years in funeral service, I’ say that the chances that there are any 70-year-old corpses that are “preserved perfectly” are just about zero. Any lake that harbors aquatic life would make short work of them, just as sea organisms did of the Titanic victims. A very rare putrefaction phenomenon called adipocere could perhaps explain some of this claim, if indeed there are any bodies down there at all, but not “hundreds of bodies.”

By: AtomicMrEMonster

AtomicMrEMonster — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:10:37 +0000

mystery_man:

There’s no need to apologize and you certainly haven’t misrepresented me. You just heard an interesting story and wanted some more information, which is perfectly understandable. Getting upset about you not knowing about the debunking would be very hypocritical of me, seeing as how I had a similar misunderstanding about recent tsuchinoko reports. No harm, no foul.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:20:14 +0000

MrAtomicEmonster- If I have misrepresented what you said or made a mistake, then I am sorry.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:18:29 +0000

I suppose I am partly to blame for starting this, and I am happy that other posters and Loren have been kind enough to take the time to address this mystery. I cannot be sure where I first heard this story, but for some reason it has always stuck in my mind and although I have never embraced the story as completely true, it held a certain mystique for me. Another poster here, I think it may have been MrAtomicEmonster (whose opinion I always value) offered the same explanation for the story, which is to say it is somehow linked to the bodies said to be there at the bottom. At first, I felt a tad foolish for letting this story get me caught up in its mystery and therefore mentioning it on this site, but now I am glad that I brought it up because it has shed a great deal of light on an anecdote I have held on to for years and years. Thank you to Loren and others here for helping to bring this enduring myth to light.