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3D model Narrated

“Plattsburgh Republican”

Stories2

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

1883 · New York (west) shore of Lake Champlain, Clinton County, New York

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

17Thinly documented

Captain Crum's Bulwagga Bay sighting, the earliest printed Champ report

July 22, 1819 · Bulwagga Bay, Port Henry, Town of Moriah, Essex County, New York, Lake Champlain

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

13Thinly documented

Names2

Lake Champlain Place · 10 stories
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Champ Term · 7 stories
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.