Just recently, a new story about monsters came from Xinhua News Agency. The news comes from Norway, and a newly formed international scientific research team is preparing to uncover the mystery of the Seljuk Lake monster in Telmark, southern Norway. It is said that the monster similar to Nishi in this lake has been bothering local residents for 250 years. From August 4th, 1998, the expedition will begin its search in this deep-water lake. Sandberg, the leader of the expedition, told reporters: "If there is an animal in the lake that people don't know yet, then we will find it this summer." It seems that people's work of exploring monsters in deep-water lakes is far from over. They saw strange creatures in the deep and mysterious inland waters of Canada. These reports are frequent and come from the recent period.
Long before Europeans arrived here, native Canadians had made many explanatory statements about the lake monster in their own history. Especially the Ogopogo monster is often mentioned. It is reported that it comes from Okanagan Lake. This lake is very deep, with a total length of128km, in British Columbia on the Pacific coast. This well-known name is more like the song title in the 20th century karaoke bars, and has little to do with the true legend of the origin of the Ganhu monster in Okana. This legend may not be true. A man named old Ken Heck was murdered by the lake, so people named the lake after him in memory of him. God turned the murderer into a giant water snake to punish him and sentenced him to stay at the crime scene forever like this. According to legend, this monster lives in a deep cave on the surface of "Storm Corner" near Rattlesnake Island, and local people put small animals into the water as food to appease the monster.
This is very much like a passage from finnish mythology's story. In this myth, an animal that looks like a giant frog is called the "Fudiano" monster, which often haunts the pond of the mill. Miller often throws unsuspecting tourists into the water to feed their local "rich Diano" to protect themselves and their families.
In addition, according to the ancient Okanagan legend, people have seen it at both ends of the lake and between rattlesnake island and missionary valley where water snakes like to haunt.
Folklores about exotic aquatic creatures spread everywhere in Canada and North America. Hundreds of lakes and rivers have their own stories about monsters inhabiting. There is a legend in micmac, Nova Scotia, which they call the Great Water Snake, and so do Algonquins living in western micmac. There are many mysterious legends about half man, half fish and animals among the Mi 'kmaq people. In an ancient legend in micmac, the hero Vestipura married a beautiful and mysterious marine woman, who was the sister of a killer whale. As long as he leaves her inland, she can accompany him as a person. If she comes to the beach again, she will return to her original appearance and take their children back to the killer whale family in the ocean. After living together for many years, they were caught in a big storm and lost their way. They have no choice but to go back to the seaside. At the seaside, the spell worked, he lost her, and she returned to her own kind in the sea.
The Erica people in upstate New York told a story called "The Big Water Beast", while the Potawatomi people in Indiana also had the legend that monsters lived in the "Great God Lake". /kloc-In the middle of the 0/9th century, the Potawatomi people strongly opposed the construction of local mills, because it would seriously hinder the life of this water beast.
Further west, the Shawnee people have a unique legend, that is, a great hero wizard fought a duel with a fish-shaped monster a long time ago. A young girl participated in it and played a decisive role in letting the hero defeat the monster. This story has unusual similarities with the following legends: Longkou, St. George saved the princess, Poerxiusi, the son of Zeus, saved Moda and Andrao, and Cadmus of Thebes killed a monster, Medea, a witch, with the help of the Athenian goddess, helping Jason defeat the monster and protect golden fleece. It is even similar to the bizarre story about Catherine de Medici. This story tells that the rich and boring Catherine de Medici got a "water monster" and used it to entertain guests at a water festival.
Ataki is a well-known name for local water monsters by Kalabuyans in Willami River, Oregon, but the name "Champ" may be a little vague. Champ is the name of a famous monster in lake champlain. It is speculated that the lake was discovered by the great French explorer Cecil Deschampland in 1609. The honorable French navigator and fearless adventurer did mention that he met a terrible monster, but it was further northeast of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
If most of the sightings are true, or at best, honest mistakes made by honest and respectable observers, then what happened in Perry by Silver Lake in new york is a blatant fraud.
1855, the report about monsters in the lake was circulated locally, which caused a great sensation. These sightings lasted for more than two years and naturally attracted many tourists. Later, a fire broke out in a local hotel. When the fire brigade came to put out the fire, it found this "lake monster" on the top floor. The innkeeper made this monster and used compressed air to run it. The shopkeeper hopes that its appearance in Silver Lake will attract tourists and improve his business. Yes, both goals have been achieved. After the initial anger and disappointment, Perry residents now hold a festival every year to commemorate the bold innkeeper's creativity.
Serious and detailed reports about Longwang whale, mechanical toothed whale and Ogopogo monster often agree that this monster is 2 1 meter long. Its body is about 10 meter thick, and its head is described by many witnesses as looking like the head of a horse, a cow or a sheep. Horses are used for comparison the most.
When a witness was swimming in Okanagan Lake, he really came across something big and heavy. At that time, she was still a teenager She gave a comprehensive report to little richard Greenwell of the International Association of Hermit Zoology. In order to hide her identity, simply call her "Mrs. Clark". She told Greenwell that it happened on a warm morning in July, 1974, about 8 o'clock. At that time, she was swimming to a raft in the lake, which was used as a platform, 457 meters away from the lake. When she was about to touch the raft, she felt something touch her leg. Whatever it is, it is huge, strong and heavy. In this unexpected underwater collision, she was surprised and scared. She climbed onto the raft as fast as she could. The monster is less than 6. 1 m away from her, and the lake is clear. According to her description, this monster has a peak or a disk, just like the big monster often mentioned in reports on Loch Ness in Scotland. According to "Mrs Clark", this mountain peak or disc-shaped thing is 2.7 meters or 3 meters long, nearly 0.5 meters above the water. When she looked at it, it was moving in the water. She said it was leaving her and swimming north. The tail she saw was about 3 meters behind the peak. She said it's like a whale's tail, which is horizontal and almost obviously divided into two parts. She estimated that it was about 2.8 meters wide. The way this monster swims is mostly Feng Long or when the dish enters the water, its tail is tilted. "Mrs. Clark" remembers that her tail broke a few inches out of the water, maybe close to 0.3 meters. She stared at the monster for four or five minutes, but she found it difficult to classify it. To some extent, it reminds her of whales rather than fish, but she also thinks it is a little too slim for whales. Its body color is dark gray, which gives her the feeling that it has no neck, just like a fish, its head and body are connected.
However, reclusive zoologists believe that although the fossil record of this primitive whale shows that it has been extinct for at least 20 million years, it did exist. Usually, people classify it as Longwang whale or mechanical toothed whale.
When European settlers came to Okanagan in the middle of19th century, they learned from local Canadians that there was a large snake-shaped monster living in this lake in this area, which they called Naitaka. This is the legendary man who used to be a murderer.
19 In the 1970s, people observed it on both sides of the lake. Later, some witnesses described it as a floating wood, which suddenly came to life and began to swim alone against the wind and current.
In the 1950s, something attacked a businessman who was crossing the Okanagan region. This kind of thing is completely inconsistent with the known forms of zoology or the eating habits of Wang Long whales or mechanical toothed whales. The businessman insisted that some huge water beasts with hands or tentacles pulled him into the water, but he managed to break free and escape. However, these horses are not so lucky. They all drowned. A few years later, something similar happened to John McDougall. He also struggled to escape, but his horse was lost in the battle with Nataka.
Nothing can stop two completely different monsters from living in Okanagan Lake. A small number of carnivores who like horse meat may live on herbivores, although less invasive species are more likely to eat fish than aquatic plants.
The possibility of two or more kinds of water monsters coexisting (one may live by eating the other) was confirmed by the record of1July 2, 949. At that time, a group of witnesses were sitting on a boat near Okanagan Lake. They reported that they had seen a specimen of the Longwang whale, and part of it was submerged in the lake. When these witnesses saw it, it was 30 yards away. They described that its tail was forked and flat, exactly like what Mrs Clark saw in 1974, and its movements were wavy. They reported that the monster's head was underwater and inferred that it was eating when they observed it.
Oliver Goodsmith made the following comments on the natural enemies of whales in his famous book History of the Earth and Animal Kingdom:
There is an even fiercer enemy, which New England calls a killer. It's the dragon king whale. It is a cetacean with strong teeth. It is said that these whales will surround a whale, just like many dogs surround a cow. Some attack from behind with their sharp teeth, while others attack from the front until the big animal is finally exhausted ... It is said that they are very strong, and a fish can hold a dead whale that needs to be towed by several ships to the bottom of the sea.
Miller and Martin's family saw a possible subspecies of mechanical toothed whale in July 1959, but they described it clearly, that is, its head looks like a snake, not like the head of a cow or a horse. When they returned from swimming in the lake, it swam behind their motorboat. Mr Martin, who was at the helm at that time, turned the bow and headed for the monster, so that they could get closer and see more clearly. At this time, the mechanical toothed whale, which has been following the ship, seems to have been discouraged by the ship and is unwilling to make any more contact. When they watched it from a distance of about 60 yards, it slowly dived into the water and disappeared from their sight. Miller, who was on the boat at that time, was the editor of Vernon Advertiser magazine. He witnessed the monster with his own eyes and made it public without hesitation.
1968, a group of young water skiers took a power speedboat with a speed of 35 knots and witnessed the appearance of monsters. Not far from her, Shelley Campbell saw the middle part of a mechanical toothed whale, about 6 meters long. The whale was sunbathing, but she didn't see its beginning and end. It's not surprising that she was distracted and dropped the water-skiing rope in her hand. When the speedboat returned to save her, the Ogpogo monster had moved. Shelley said that she had clearly seen blue, green and gray scales shining in the sun like a red eel. Before it dived into the water, these skiers had reached a few meters away from it, and then it soon disappeared. They tried to catch up with it with a speedboat, but it was faster than their 35-knot speedboat and soon disappeared.
Another witness report came from the captain of a Canadian fishing patrol boat, who said it was more like a floating telephone pole with a sheep's head.
Watson and Clay, two tourists from Montreal, described what they saw as 9 meters long with five wavy humps on their backs. Each hump is 2 meters long, and the spacing between humps is about 65438 0 meters. They say its tail is forked, but they only see half of it out of the water.
A Vancouver tourist saw Ogopogo swimming at a distance of 100 meters. She said it was really a unique scene. Its head looks like a horse or a cow, and shiny disc-shaped things are like two huge wheels driving in the water. She also explained that the serrated edge on its back is like the sawtooth of a big saw. She saw it rise and fall in the water at least three times, and then sank into the water and disappeared. Because before coming to Okanagan, she knew nothing about the legend of this monster and had never heard of the history of this monster that people had witnessed before, so her testimony was particularly interesting.
Another amazing report comes from 1867 Fantasy Lake in New Brunswick. People working in logging camps and lakeside mills described how they saw a huge animal playing in the water. A few years later, 1872, their dictation appeared in the Canadian Pictorial. According to their description, this animal has a barrel-shaped head and a pair of formidable chins. It is said that it often appears after the ice water melts. This is related to the investigation of lake monsters in Europe. In Norway, when cold water flows down from mountains and lakes, the number of monsters seen increases obviously. When the relevant river bends, there is a forest mill, and monsters are the most common. Could it be "a raging river"? It is always accompanied by reports of people witnessing monsters. To some extent, this turbulent river is attributed to a large amount of industrial waste (perhaps accumulated from abandoned sawdust) rotting and releasing a lot of smoke. On the other hand, does the smoke give enough energy to waste sawdust to make it gush out of the water in large quantities, making people mistakenly think it is Ogopogo or its close relatives? There may have been one or two distant and unclear sightings, but the monster that scared Shelley Kenner and escaped from the water skiing boat at a speed of 35 knots was by no means gas-driven sawdust.
Lake Vogan is located in the middle of the Nebraska grassland, which was once called the alkali lake. Compared with the most witnessed north, it is completely different from them in geography and geology. The Vogan monster is brown, not dark green, blue and gray. A farmer in Nebraska reported seeing this monster. He said he saw it jump out of the water as high as 6 meters. A group of five witnesses also recorded their encounter with the Vogan monster. According to their estimation, it is 6 ~ 7 meters long.
Today, there are countless stories about lake monsters in the world, whether they are witnessed or rumored, but we can only wait for scientists to give us a clear answer as soon as possible.