McNeill’s of Brattleboro, VT is offering up an American Pale Ale style beer called Champ Ale.  In our opinion, its one of the best beverages to enjoy while watching for Champ from the beaches along Lake Champlain.  Throw back a couple (or 6) and you’re almost guaranteed to see Champ.

Visit McNeills’ Myspace Page – Tell em Charlie Sent You

History Channel has put togerther an awesome show on Champ, “America’s Loch Ness Monster” Here are the links to parts 1-4, available to watch Free on the History Channel website

• America’s Loch Ness Monster – Part 1.
• America’s Loch Ness Monster – Part 2.
• America’s Loch Ness Monster – Part 3
• America’s Loch Ness Monster – Part 4
• America’s Loch Ness Monster – Part 5
• America’s Loch Ness Monster – Part 6

A Must-See for anyone interested in learning more about Champ.

Eric Olsen of Burlington, VT shot the following video of something in the lake on the morning of May 31.  Champ? Or a Moose? You decide. You can also check out the Burlington Free Press‘ coverage of the sighting.

From the article:

“I was just filming the water when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move, and I turned toward it and tried to zoom in on it,” said Olsen, a Web site developer and musician.

“You can see that it is moving both horizontally, across the water, and vertically, going under the surface and coming back up,” he said. “It struck me as something that was long, that it didn’t have much girth.”

Update: A couple things have happened since this video was originally posted. Eric Olsen has backed off from the suggestion that he saw a lake monster, causing some to wonder if he knows what was in his video:

“I put this up because it was strange, not because I think it is Champ.”

The Burlington Free Press has posted a follow-up article about the Champ Video, in which they interviewed Cedric Anderson, a Moose specialist with the VT Department of Fish and wildlife. He says the following:

“The head shape is not right for a moose, and the body’s too long. Also, there’s no ears that I can see. Moose have ears that look like donkey ears.”

Update 2: ABC News weighs in with a very thorough 4 (web)page article covering a variety of Champ-related topics.  You can read the ABC Champ article here.

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You can see the full video below, this looks a lot like Champ!

From Reuters:

Apr 3 – Just 800 miles (1287 km) from the North Pole,
paleontologists believe they have found the fossilized remains of a
massive sea monster that lived 150 million years ago.

Predator X — a new species of a Pliosaur — is said to have been the most dangerous creature to have lived under water.

The creature was about 50 feet (15 meters) long, weighed approximately
45 tonnes (40,823,000 kg), had a head ten feet (3 meters) long and jaws
armed with teeth the size of cucumbers.

Dr. Jorn Hurum, and his team of paleontologists discovered Predator X
in northern Norway last October and says the new species of a Pliosaur
was more fearsome in power than the land-based Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The warm weather is here, so we’re getting ready for another season of Champ Chasing.  Here are some excerpts from the journal of the original (European) champ chaser, Samuel de Champlain:

“… there is an island where a terrible monster resides, which the savages call ‘Gougou,’ and which they told me had the form of a woman, though very frightful, and of such a size that they told me the tops of the masts of our vessel would not reach to his middle.”

And he goes on…

“… and they say that he has often devoured and still continues to devour many savages; these he puts, when he can catch them, into a great pocket, and afterwards eats them; and those who had escaped the jaws of this wretched creature said that its pocket was so great that it could have put our vessel into it. This monster makes horrible noises in this island. … When they speak of him, it is with the greatest possible fear, and several have assured me that they have seen him.

“What makes me believe what they say is the fact that all the savages in general fear it, and tell such strange things about it that, if I were to record all they say, it would be regarded as a myth; but I hold that this is the dwelling-place of some devil that torments them.”

Here are the links to the journals online, hosted by the Gutenberg project….

• Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
• Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02
• Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03

A creature that looks an awful lot like Bigfoot had been discovered in GA. This creature was 7’7″, weighed over 500lbs, walked upright and most importantly, had feet that were nearly 17″ long. Several others were spotted in the area on the same day, Rick and Matt are planning a trip in the near future in an attempt to catch one of these badboys. Wish I had a photo but all the sites are swamped, and these guys are keeping a pretty tight hold on the rights. If you can get cryptomundo.com to load, there are a few photos there, even one where you can see the face. Press conference on Fri, we’ll see you there.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306

Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. Menlo Park, California
Tom Biscardi, CEO

BIGFOOT BODY FOUND – EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th

FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” has been found in the woods in northern Georgia.

DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be presented in a press conference on Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press.
Here are some of the vital statistics on the “Bigfoot” body:
*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot.
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five and three-quarters inches wide at the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are
eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th.

The creature was found by Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer (residents of Georgia) in the woods in northern Georgia. (The exact location is being kept secret to protect the creatures.)
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer will be flying in from Georgia to be at the press conference. Also present at the press conference will be Tom Biscardi, CEO of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc.
Whitton is a Clayton County, Georgia, police officer, who is currently on administrative leave after being wounded in the course of duty pursuing an alleged felon. Dyer is a former correctional officer. Whitton and Dyer are co-owners of bigfoottracker.com and Bigfoot Global LLC., a company that offers Bigfoot expeditions. Whitton and Dyer are working with Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi, and Biscardi’s Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., to present and conduct the scientific study of the evidence and information on this body.
A few weeks ago, Whitton and Dyer announced the finding of the body on the “Squatch Detective” radio show, an internet based radio show hosted by Steve Kulls. While on that show, the commentator asked Rick Dyer “Would you allow one of our people to come down and verify the body?” Dyer replied, “The only person we would allow to come down and verify the body was ‘the real Bigfoot Hunter,’ Tom Biscardi.” The next day, the producer of the Squatch Detective show contacted Biscardi with pertinent information on how to contact Dyer and Whitton.
Extensive scientific studies will be done on the body by a team of scientists including a molecular biologist, an anthropologist, a paleontologist and other scientists over the next few months at an undisclosed location. The studies will be carefully documented and the findings will be released to the world, according to Biscardi.
Biscardi is known as “the real Bigfoot Hunter” because of his extensive investigations out in the field. He has been searching for Bigfoot since 1971 and over the past several years, he has been criss-crossing the United States and Canada tracking down the hottest leads on Bigfoot sightings.
Videography on the studies will be done under the supervision of Scott Davis, an independent producer and owner of TV Biz Productions in Phoenix, Arizona.
Currently, Tom Biscardi and his Searching for Bigfoot Team, in conjunction with Bigfoot Global LLC., are preparing to capture another of these creatures alive. That expedition will start very soon. The dates and the locations are being kept confidential.
The body that is currently being studied is being referred to as the “RICKMAT” creature, a name derived from the names of Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton. [Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman recommends the term “Georgia Gorilla” be used to remove any taint of ego from the discovery, and so the general public, media, and science will have a comfortable moniker until a formal zoological name may be bestowed.]
Last year, a film that Biscardi produced about his investigations, called “Bigfoot Lives,” won first place in the Documentary category at the Pocono Mountains Film Festival. Biscardi also hosts a Bigfoot oriented internet radio show that can be heard on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 8:00pm PDT at www.bigfootliveradioshow.com. The show is heard in over thirty countries.
Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. has exclusive rights to all publishing rights, photo rights, television and film rights, production and distribution rights and other commercial opportunities related to the discovery and findings regarding this body and these creatures.
Interested parties may contact Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., in writing, at their mailing address, 1134 Crane St., Suite 216, Menlo Park, California 94025.

Authorities have decided to lift endangered species status for the monster or population of monsters known as Storsjoodjuret. It lives in Lake Storsjon, the fifth largest lake in Sweden.

There are wildly varied reports of Storsjoodjuret, the first of which was a tale by a vicar in 1635. Recent sightings of the serpent are widely varied. You can read more on wikipedia using the links above.

I was looking at the lake using Google Earth and noticed a funny shape in the water. It is about 1.58 miles SW of Mud Island at:

Lat: 44° 7’3.59″N
Long: 73°23’40.83″W

Is this just an artifact of the imaging used or something else?
Robert

Hi Robert,
Thanks for your dedication to the search, it must have taken hours of hunting to find Champ in satellite photos from google maps. I have no idea what that object is, I am embedding the map below so that our readers can decide for themselves.

Keep up the great work,
Charlie

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Hi
I am doing a research on Champ, but on the Canadian side. I try to know if there is some people who had seeing Champ on the Canadian side. Do you know a group who is getting together the sightings of Champ on that part of Champlain Lake?
THANKS
Danielle

Hi Danielle,
I am glad that you are taking up the cause of researching Champ. I have not had any reported sightings from Canada, nor do I know of any groups collecting Champ sighting info from north of the border. Please stay in touch and keep me up to date with your findings.

Good luck searching!
Charlie

dear charlie champ chaser,
my name is andie guran, i am ten years old, and i have a few questions. i watched a show on discovery channel, and a woman reported a sighting of some dinosaur-looking creature on her lake champlain property. she said at night when her dogs started barking, she looked out her window and saw the creature walk under the light-post. she described both of the ones she saw(on different nights), as a plaseosaur-lookind creature without flapper fin things. my question is, do you think that champ could’ve evolved from a plaseosaur, into all these funny sea monsters we’ve been seeing? and do you think they could’ve developed sonar like that other woman captured on tape like no other sonar?(i’ll explain it to you some other time, if you don’t know that story. but i think you do)

please write back, your friend,
andie:)

Hi Andie,
Thanks for your email, I’m sorry it took me so long to respond, its been a busy summer of searching for Champ. Regarding the monster walking under the street lamp… there have been a lot of sightings of Champ lounging on the shore of the lake or coming up on shore. It is entirely possible that one was walking across her property as long as it was somewhat near the water. Personally, I believe that Champ has flippers, but I have never seen one myself so I can’t be sure. I would be interested in learning more about the sonar you speak of, believe it or not I have not had the opportunity to watch the history channel documentary. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Charlie