What do you think about this?
Stretching for more than a hundred miles between New York, Vermont, and up into Canada lies Lake Champlain, a deep, cold, ancient body of water. And for as long as people have lived along its shores, they have told of something living in it. The Abenaki people spoke of a creature in the lake long before Europeans arrived. Local legend named it Champ, and to this day the town of Port Henry keeps a sign tallying the sightings.
The most famous piece of evidence came in 1977, when a woman named Sandra Mansi took a color photograph of what appears to be a long neck and a dark hump rising out of the water. It remains one of the most debated cryptid photos ever taken, because no clear sign of a hoax has ever been found in it, and the shape simply does not match any obvious animal in the frame.
Skeptics have reasonable answers. A floating log, a large sturgeon, a trick of waves and light on a vast lake where the eye is easily fooled. Lake Champlain has no known animal that fits the descriptions, and no body, bone, or clear film has ever settled it.
What if the lake really is deep and old enough to hide something large that has simply learned to stay unseen, surfacing just often enough to keep the legend alive?
A misjudged log and hopeful eyes, or a real animal science has never caught? What do you think people keep seeing in Lake Champlain?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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