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May 31, 2009 Champ Sighting & VIDEO!

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:06:53 +0000

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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Satellite photo of Champ on Google Maps.

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:36:26 +0000

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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Giant Lego Champ Spotted in FL

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:39:32 +0000

They are calling this monster “Puff” but I think we all know better.

Jay Slater – Summer 2006 Reported Sighting

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:39:32 +0000

In the summer of 2006 I was the department head of canoeing and
kayaking at Brown Ledge Camp on Colchester Bay in Vermont. I was on
the dock every morning at 9am. This time of the day the water was
always flat and there was rarely any boat traffic. One morning I was
on the dock with several other staff members when I saw a strange set
of waves in the middle of the bay. About 300 yards out in the bay I
saw a set of five or six small waves travelling away from the outlet of
the bay in toward Colchester Bay, towards the boat launch. The lake
was perfect glass except for those waves which all traveled in unison
across the bay until they went out of sight around the point. There
were no boats on the lake and it was completely silent. There was no
wind and nothing that could have possibly caused a disturbance of the
water. Further more the waves travelled in a manner where they all
stayed together in perfect space from each other, never spreading apart
or moving like normal chaotic waves. This same thing happened twice that summer.
I am not a nut or some guy that believes in aliens or anything like
that, I call em’ as I see em’ and thats what I saw. I had no
explanation of what it was in the water, naturally people around were
asking me what it was. I spent every day on that dock and saw all
sorts of different conditions but nothing like I saw those two
mornings. I have been around water all my life kayaking, sailing,
fishing and motor boating I know what all wakes look like and how waves
form. I don’t know if what I saw was Champ but what I have heard
other (normal, sane, nice) people say lines up startlingly similarly to
what I saw that summer. I believe something unexplained cause those
waves and from a very experienced water person they really were like
nothing I have ever seen. Lake Champlain is enormous and I really do
think that there is a very real possibility that there is something in
there that we don’t officially know about. Again I am a regular guy like anyone out there, I came in from Bozeman, MT as a kayak instructor at this summer camp and
this is what I saw, never have I seen anything in my life that simply
escaped explanation.

We get a lot of sighting reports.

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:48:05 +0000

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