Think your picture may be a hoax. Is it the same picture posted and described at the link below?

The fish in the picture is actually an oarfish.

Talk to Loren et. al. and see if they will post your picture as another “mystery photo” on the blog. Does the fish/snake in the picture look anything like the mystery animal in the previous “mystery photo” contest.

So likely these guys filmed a large reptile under their boat, a reptile with an extremely long neck and a small head.

If I was watching a video of a large Tanystropheus looking up with it’s long neck and small head at a boat, then whipping it back down, this video is what I would expect that would look like. It does not move like an eel, or a fish. It moves like a long necked animal moving it’s head around. But that is my opinion and I am biased, because I accept from the evidence that there is a population of large, long necked animals living in lake Champlain.

Nobody will take notice until one marches down the beach in front of a tv news crew, though, with a sign saying, ‘I demand tax exempt status, I am an unknown animal!’

I know many sightings were made in Lake Champlain and other locations. People were talking about a snake-like prehistoric creature. I bought a poster-photo in Bangkok showing the American Army at the Mekhong river, Laos military base in 1973, holding a “snake like fish” of 7.80 meters called Queen of Nagas. I have never seen this creature on t.v. or where ever and I don’t know who has issued this photo for publication but you should see this picture, you’ll be amazed!!!

“The echolocation signal under analysis is similar to Beluga whale and killer echolocation, yet different enough so that we can not make a positive identification. Methods such as cross-correlation, where one compares the properties of one sound to another, can usually tell us what type of creature it is, but not in this case. It is significantly different from both whale and dolphin, but it is echolocation.”

The comment that

“Then there’s the recent (2006) Lake Champlain bio-sonar detected by very curious scientists. It is clearly of a large unknown animal in the Lake.”

is misinformed. Nobody, not even the scientist von Muggenthaler, states that the recordings were of Champ. She states that the sound is similar to that of a beluga whale, which do exist in the St. Lawrence seaway but not in Champlain. Her findings have yet to be published or peer-reviewed, but hopefully that will happen soon.

He claims that his dad had a captured Champ back in the 1950′s. It would be in Jericho Vermont today. Maybe this is what his backyard Champ pool looks like? – not really

Spooky

All of a sudden I see an explosion of water in a long serpentine fashion. It was like watching an alligator do it’s death spin. But MUCH MUCH larger than a little gator or even a big croc. I didn’t actually see its body only the white foam it kicked up.

I can only surmise that it was hunting fish off of the northern end of Stave Island and had nabbed a big salmon or a sturgeon and was trying to break it in half the way crocs and gators do. Well I got off a blurry Kodak Instamatic shot but it was worthless. My wife denies seeing anything! Chicks!!! A guy at work said it was a flock of birds hitting the water all at once. Note he wasn’t there! Can you say “denial”?

Well I attached a jpeg with coordinates, sat photos, and a photo simulation of what I saw.

This was my first exposure to this critter leading me to do more research. I discovered that the US NAVY Sound Lab in Conn. is interested. I also met Joe Zarzinynsky, the late Dr. Greenwald, Dr. Roy Mackal, and Sandra Mansi who had their own documented close encounters.

There is a guy who claims his dad actually had a “captured” baby and is the reason why U-Haul has a dinosaur on it’s trucks (they believe him I guess). He won’t say what happened to it or if he still has it in a private pond or at least it’s dead carcass. They officially have a scientific name for the species too. Tanta…. something or other. The local college in Burlington TOTALLY are into this and believe this guy 100%. I however am very skeptical. Why won’t he tell me the status of his beastie??? OK he wrote a book. Big deal I’m not paying $30 bucks for it!

Then there’s the recent (2006) Lake Champlain bio-sonar detected by very curious scientists. It is clearly of a large unknown animal in the Lake. It was only 30′ under the boat! Here’s what Champ sounds like.

Is paleo-science about to be REWRITTEN!!! What’s next rewriting evolution too??? Hey I never bought that egg-head crap anyway!

Spooky

I’m not as down on the piece as the other commentors. It was a good move having the former FBI analysts look it over and somewhat vouch for its authenticity. They could have also mentioned the recordings taken in Lake Champlain that some experts claim to be echolocation, and interviewed them and played the recordings. But it was better than most cryptozoology stories in the news.

Sidenote: Do they have the website set up so you can only view the piece once, as it loads in parts? When it finished playing as it was loading it didn’t seem to let me play it again and it kept loading – is this something with the computer here or is that how it is set up?