William One Sac
01-11-2004, 07:00 PM
I have long been fascinated by the subject of lake monsters. The idea of living dinosaurs has been a subject I have had great interest since I was a child. Most eyewitness testimony of lake monsters have seemingly always characterized the cryptids as <i>plesiosaurs</i>, long necked creatures thought extinct for millions of years.
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This subject has been debated for years, with mainly only eyewitness testimony to back it up, as well as a few pictures, mostly very questionable. However, creatures like Champ, of Lake Champlaign, have been reported as far back by the native Americans who inhabited the area, well before settlers came to the region. So can it be that all of these so called witnesses are lying, misidentifying something else (a log or a wave for example), hallucinating? It seems unlikely as well, even if you consider a combination of all three choices as the answer, given that there are many instances of <i>credible</i> eyewitness accounts, as well as a few videos and photographs that are a little harder to discount. But then, several years ago, a skeptic came up with a seemingly bullet proof argument against lake monsters in general, the Loch Ness monster specifically.
There are not enough fish to support a viable breeding colony of these large cryptids. Case closed.
Or is it? There are a couple of possible explanations, in my opinion, that leave me open to the possibility that lake monsters exist. Firstly, that argument depends on the fact that the creatures eat fish. This is not neccessarily a fact, especially when dealing with a species we know nothing about, that might not even exist. And there exists another possibility, one that intrigues me even more. It can be argued, very logically, that if these creatures exist and spend their entire lives in lakes, there should be at least some evidence of a carcass, a bone, something to lend credence to the fact.
However, what if these so called lake monstgers are really deep ocean dwellers, who travel to lochs and lakes via deep underground rivers. Maybe they are semi-intelligent, and have learned to avoid man. Could these creatures come to the lakes to raise young, or even to breed? I am not going to claim I say this is a fact, I only offer it as a possible explanation. There are many things we dont know about the deep ocean. Only recently, have proof of the collosal squid been uncovered. They are deep sea dwellers.
At any rate, the discovery of one of these cryptids would be a great boost for science and our understanding of the planet we live on. For example, if this scenario is correct, and the creatures do travel undergound through rivers, what does drilling water wells and such effect these creatures habitats?
Perhaps the creatures use something like sonar to navigate the deep trenches, and only surface at night (if at all) because light hurts their darkness adapted eyes. Of course I realize this is all just speculation on my part...
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This subject has been debated for years, with mainly only eyewitness testimony to back it up, as well as a few pictures, mostly very questionable. However, creatures like Champ, of Lake Champlaign, have been reported as far back by the native Americans who inhabited the area, well before settlers came to the region. So can it be that all of these so called witnesses are lying, misidentifying something else (a log or a wave for example), hallucinating? It seems unlikely as well, even if you consider a combination of all three choices as the answer, given that there are many instances of <i>credible</i> eyewitness accounts, as well as a few videos and photographs that are a little harder to discount. But then, several years ago, a skeptic came up with a seemingly bullet proof argument against lake monsters in general, the Loch Ness monster specifically.
There are not enough fish to support a viable breeding colony of these large cryptids. Case closed.
Or is it? There are a couple of possible explanations, in my opinion, that leave me open to the possibility that lake monsters exist. Firstly, that argument depends on the fact that the creatures eat fish. This is not neccessarily a fact, especially when dealing with a species we know nothing about, that might not even exist. And there exists another possibility, one that intrigues me even more. It can be argued, very logically, that if these creatures exist and spend their entire lives in lakes, there should be at least some evidence of a carcass, a bone, something to lend credence to the fact.
However, what if these so called lake monstgers are really deep ocean dwellers, who travel to lochs and lakes via deep underground rivers. Maybe they are semi-intelligent, and have learned to avoid man. Could these creatures come to the lakes to raise young, or even to breed? I am not going to claim I say this is a fact, I only offer it as a possible explanation. There are many things we dont know about the deep ocean. Only recently, have proof of the collosal squid been uncovered. They are deep sea dwellers.
At any rate, the discovery of one of these cryptids would be a great boost for science and our understanding of the planet we live on. For example, if this scenario is correct, and the creatures do travel undergound through rivers, what does drilling water wells and such effect these creatures habitats?
Perhaps the creatures use something like sonar to navigate the deep trenches, and only surface at night (if at all) because light hurts their darkness adapted eyes. Of course I realize this is all just speculation on my part...