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Scans matching “lake monster”41 scans

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  The 2021 Origin of Champ marker at Bulwagga Bay, Port Henry Scan

  William G. Pomeroy Foundation ·from Captain Crum's Bulwagga Bay sighting, the earliest printed Champ report (1819)

  LEGENDS & LORE ORIGIN OF CHAMP SCORNED SUITOR TRANSFORMED INTO LAKE MONSTER WHEN HE PLUNGED INTO THIS BAY AFTER DROWNING HIS LOVE, BULWAGGA. NEW YORK FOLKLORE WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021 116…

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  The 2024 Bear Lake Monster historic marker with the lake behind it Scan

  William G. Pomeroy Foundation ·from The Bear Lake Monster: Joseph C. Rich's settler sightings (1868)
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  Close view of the Bear Lake Monster historic marker Scan

  William G. Pomeroy Foundation ·from The Bear Lake Monster: Joseph C. Rich's settler sightings (1868)

  LEGENDS & LORE BEAR LAKE MONSTER REGIONAL LEGEND OF BEAR LAKE VALLEY TELLS OF SIGHTINGS OF LARGE SERPENTINE MONSTER IN THIS LAKE. TALE PROMOTED IN 1868 BY JOSEPH C. RICH. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY FOLKLORE PROGRAM WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2024 185…

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  Trent Valley Navigation Company steamer Ogemah entering Lovesick Lake Scan

  from The Sturgeon Lake monster chases the steamer Ogemah, with later sightings on Cameron Lake near Fenelon Falls (1872)
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  The steamer Ogemah leaving Chemong Park, circa 1900 Scan

  from The Sturgeon Lake monster chases the steamer Ogemah, with later sightings on Cameron Lake near Fenelon Falls (1872)
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  Image titled "Is it the Cameron Lake Monster"; subject and source not established, not evidence of the creature Scan

  from The Sturgeon Lake monster chases the steamer Ogemah, with later sightings on Cameron Lake near Fenelon Falls (1872)
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  Image captioned "Is that the Monster?"; subject and source not established, not evidence of the creature Scan

  from The Sturgeon Lake monster chases the steamer Ogemah, with later sightings on Cameron Lake near Fenelon Falls (1872)
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  The 2019 CHAMPY Legends & Lore marker at Cumberland Head Rd, Plattsburgh Scan

  William G. Pomeroy Foundation ·from Champ, the 1873 railroad crew sighting and the W. B. Eddy collision, Lake Champlain (1873)

  LEGENDS CHAMPY LEGENDARY LAKE MONSTER LIVES HERE. OVER 300 SIGHTINGS REPORTED SINCE 1819. UP TO 200 FEET LONG. NYS LAW PROTECTS THIS REGIONAL ICON. NEW YORK FOLKLORE WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 55 WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 5…

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  Cover of Chad Lewis's Lake Monsters of Wisconsin (2016), which opens with the Browns Lake case. Scan

  Publisher cover via Goodreads ·from The Amphibious Lake Demon of Browns Lake (1876)
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  Illustration of a lake serpent accompanying a blog post on the Rock Lake and Red Cedar Lake monsters Scan

  from The Rock Lake Serpent, the "Rock Lake Terror" of Lake Mills, Wisconsin (1882)
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  Champ sign Scan

  WAMC ·from Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney's Lake Champlain Water Serpent (Champ), 1883 (1883)

  LEGENDARY LAKE MONSTER LIVES HERE. OVER 300 SIGHTINGS REPORTED SINCE 1819. UP TO 200 FEET LONG. NYS LAW PROTECTS THIS REGIONAL ICON. NEW YORK FOLKLORE WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 55…

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  Champy Legends & Lore marker, Cumberland Head, Plattsburgh Scan

  William G. Pomeroy Foundation ·from Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney's Lake Champlain Water Serpent (Champ), 1883 (1883)

  LEGENDS CHAMPY LEGENDARY LAKE MONSTER LIVES HERE. OVER 300 SIGHTINGS REPORTED SINCE 1819. UP TO 200 FEET LONG. NYS LAW PROTECTS THIS REGIONAL ICON. NEW YORK FOLKLORE WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 55 WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019 5…

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  Historic marker about the origin of Champ Scan

  LakeChamplainRegion.com ·from Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney's Lake Champlain Water Serpent (Champ), 1883 (1883)

  LEGENDS & LORE ORIGIN OF CHAMP SCORNED SUITOR TRANSFORMED INTO LAKE MONSTER WHEN HE PLUNGED INTO THIS BAY AFTER DROWNING HIS LOVE. BULWACCA. NEW YORK FOLKLORE WILLIAM C. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021 116…

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  Grainy colour image of an alleged lake monster, apparently the 1977 Mansi photo or similar, a different event Scan

  LakeChamplainRegion.com ·from Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney's Lake Champlain Water Serpent (Champ), 1883 (1883)
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  Antique etching of a lake monster Scan

  LakeChamplainRegion.com ·from Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney's Lake Champlain Water Serpent (Champ), 1883 (1883)
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  View of Wallowa Lake Scan

  Frank Reavis ·from The Prospector's Skiff: First Report of the Wallowa Lake Monster (1885)
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  Bob After Dark podcast cover art Scan

  Bob After Dark ·from The Prospector's Skiff: First Report of the Wallowa Lake Monster (1885)
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  Great Falls Tribune clipping, Sunday 12 June 1955 Scan

  Great Falls Tribune, reproduced by the Flathead Beacon ·from Captain James C. Kerr and the steamer U.S. Grant: the first Flathead Lake Monster sighting (1889)

  Fisherman Hooks Flathead Lake Monster Big Sturgeon Weighed 181 Pounds By A. E. ALLEN POLSON — As aid newspaper readers know the Flathead lake turned out to be a whit sturgeon, seven and a half feet long and weighing 181 pounds. It subs- equently topped up to 330 pounds in newsprint.) The remarkable …

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  The mounted 1955 white sturgeon at the Polson-Flathead Historical Museum Scan

  Butch Larcombe / Flathead Beacon ·from Captain James C. Kerr and the steamer U.S. Grant: the first Flathead Lake Monster sighting (1889)
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  Flathead Lake at Yellow Bay Scan

  Butch Larcombe / Flathead Beacon ·from Captain James C. Kerr and the steamer U.S. Grant: the first Flathead Lake Monster sighting (1889)
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  1955 "Big Fish" poster at the Polson museum Scan

  Butch Larcombe / Flathead Beacon ·from Captain James C. Kerr and the steamer U.S. Grant: the first Flathead Lake Monster sighting (1889)

  LOOK SEE THE BIGGEST FISH Ever Caught in Montana . . (Yes, the Biggest by a Country Mile) at SALISH HOTEL BLDG. -- POLSON 7 1/2 ft. Flathead Lake Sturgeon, wt. 181 lbs. (A Prehistoric Fish "Out of This World") OUR BABY MONSTER (Made pretty by the World Famous Yellowstone Park Taxidermists at Livings…

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  Mental Floss header image, probably a depiction or sculpture of Storsjöodjuret Scan

  Andreas Eriksson, Wikimedia Commons ·from Storsjöodjuret, the Great Lake Monster of Jämtland: the 1893 sighting and the 1894 capture company (1893)
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  A cow moose and calf, offered as a possible explanation for lake monster sightings. Scan

  Getty Images ·from Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909) (1909)
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  A jumping sturgeon, offered as a possible explanation for prairie lake monsters. Scan

  Getty Images ·from Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909) (1909)
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  The Thetis lakes, photographed 24 July 2011 Scan

  CFZ-Canada ·from The Thetis Lake Monster (1972)
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  Rob Grosse's 1985 journal Scan

  Submitted ·from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)

  August 1985 In August, me and Paula decided to go out on a boat ride on a very feathful evening. While we were out on our ride in turtle lake, (the area of Keeper's Lake) Paula first matter what appeared to be a log of some sort living on the water, a moment later, the supposed "loot went under wate…

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  The Grosse brothers as adults at Turtle Lake Scan

  Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM ·from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  The Grosse brothers in the boat Scan

  Submitted ·from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  Dave and Rob Grosse at Turtle Lake in the 1980s Scan

  from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  The family's summer trailer at Turtle Lake Scan

  Submitted ·from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  The hat bought shortly after the 1985 sighting Scan

  Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM ·from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  The Grosse brothers in summer 1985 Scan

  Submitted ·from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  Rob Grosse at Turtle Lake in 2020 Scan

  from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  Turtle Lake and the Turtle River in August Scan

  Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM ·from Rob and Dave Grosse's Turtle Lake Monster sighting, Kopps Cove, Saskatchewan (1985) (1985)
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  'The scene', content unknown Scan

  CCTV ·from Kanas Lake "Lake Monsters" Filmed by Beijing Tourists near Sandaowan (2005) (2005)
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  Screenshot from a CCTV news clip, said to be likely filmed in 2005; unconfirmed Scan

  CCTV via Wondermondo ·from Kanas Lake "Lake Monsters" Filmed by Beijing Tourists near Sandaowan (2005) (2005)
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  Uncaptioned image in the Sina article; filename suggests 2004 Scan

  Sina ·from Kanas Lake "Lake Monsters" Filmed by Beijing Tourists near Sandaowan (2005) (2005)
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  Kanas Lake scenery (judging by filename) Scan

  CCTV ·from Kanas Lake "Lake Monsters" Filmed by Beijing Tourists near Sandaowan (2005) (2005)
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  CCTV image named 'lake monster appears', possibly a frame from the 2005 footage; not visually checked Scan

  CCTV ·from Kanas Lake "Lake Monsters" Filmed by Beijing Tourists near Sandaowan (2005) (2005)
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  Visitor's photo captioned as the Kanas 'water monster'; event not identified Scan

  weather.com.cn ·from Kanas Lake "Lake Monsters" Filmed by Beijing Tourists near Sandaowan (2005) (2005)
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  Likely illustrating livestock losses around the lake; background Scan

  CCTV ·from Kanas Lake "Lake Monsters" Filmed by Beijing Tourists near Sandaowan (2005) (2005)