5 Lake & Sea Monsters Supposedly Caught on Camera

around 95% of the ocean remains to be explored as the earth is 70% water this means that most of the world is uncharted unknown the seas are the last great frontier of Earth in their depths all manner of life is capable of existing variations in shape size and color beyond human imagination as such what we may consider today a myth may be regarded as mundane tomorrow what really lies under the water since the late 1800s visitors to Lake Manitoba have reported sighting a mysterious reptilian creature the lake monster is known as manipogo Lake Manitoba in the Canadian province of the same name is located alongside several other lakes they were formed during the last ice age over 10,000 years ago because of Lake Manitoba's age and size tales of a large serpentine monster inhabiting its waters have flourished for centuries in local Native American culture witness testimonies described the creature as being anywhere between 12 and 50 feet in length its body is said to be snake-like humped and dark brown in color in August 1962 manipogo was reportedly photographed by Richard Vincent and John cone fell during a fishing trip the large water serpent appeared close to their boat at first Vincent a TV operations manager thought the creature was a large black snake or eel however as it revealed more of itself the two men realized that they were staring at something inexplicable it was about 30 centimetres in girth and about 3.5 meters of the monster was above the water no head was visible according to their testimony they attempted to pursue the Beast in their boat even with their 10 horsepower motor at full speed they could not keep up with manipogo whilst unable to follow the pair did manage to photograph the thing they described as a monster years after the event the witnesses maintained that they did not know what manner of creature they saw that day although of terrible quality the photograph is said to have perplexed some experts including a zoologist at the local university to this day the images subject is unknown [Music] in 1964 Roberts la siroque took his family on a boating trip of the Australian coast they had made plans to spend three months on the largely uninhabited hook Island on the 12th of December as they began their crossing of Stonehaven Bay Nasser ex-wife is said to have alerted the group to a strange object at the bottom of the lagoon it was a giant tadpole shaped creature estimated to be around 80 feet long unsure as to what they were looking at the pass he gradually edged the boat closer the creature did not move at this point la siroque claimed he photographed the strange shape in the water a few pictures later he and his friend on the boat decided to climb down into the water to get a better look as they moved closer they could see that the aquatic beast skin was smooth being mostly black in color with brown stripes it had pale slit shaped eyes which were on top of its head on the right side of its tail the serac noticed a large pale region which he speculated may have been a wound caused by a ship's propeller as the two men continued to swim closer the creature still did not move by now lisara and his friend thought that it whatever it was must be dead however just as they were about to film it the sea beast opened its toothless mouth and began to move towards them by the time they had thrashed their way back on board the boat the monster was gone in March of the following year robert la siroque appeared in australia's every one magazine claiming to have captured genuine photographs of a sea monster in the years since a debate has ignited as the genuineness of the hook island monster case skeptics have launched a campaign of character assassination describing la siroque as a poor and indebted Breton who had been chased from France by debtors and was wanted by Interpol the hook Island monster reduced to nothing more than the fabrication of a money-hungry Frenchman with the intentions of selling a hoax to the media yet bad character alone however true is not enough to convict the entire case when presented with the evidence Ivan Sanderson a Scottish biologist and writer known for his interest in cryptozoology struggled to condemn the case outright his initial response was to explain the photographs as misidentification Sanderson stated that the object may well have been a plastic bag used by the US Navy for experiments in towing petrol or it may very well have been a deflated skyhook balloon which had become covered in weeds despite his original rather far-fetched responses the biologist later conceded that the image may well be that of a known creature suggesting the possibility of a giant swamp eel however this explanation was far from convincing with swamp eels being eel shaped not tadpole and generally measuring less than two feet long the creature being a tightly bunched shoal of fish has also been dismissed as a weak argument the straight and obvious edges of lesser extinction we see monster contradicting the usually active constantly moving messy arrangement of a shoal of fish other theories include that of the hook Island monster being a giant piece of plastic weighed down by sand in all cases however there is a lack of evidence either way no one has been able to positively conclude whether these photographs are fraudulent for now at least the hawk Island monster remains a mystery north of Toronto Canada lies Lake Simcoe it is in this lake that an elusive creature called Kempenfelt Kelly is said to dwell a long-necked aquatic beast with a doglike head local sightings of this bizarre canine headed creature are in abundance far from being exclusively water dwelling Kempenfelt Kelly or ago Pogo as it is also known has been spotted out of the water for extended periods of time seemingly basking in the Sun in 2005 a local retired businessman called arch Brown described sighting the lake monster on four separate occasions unfortunately all of his encounters were at a distance regardless when interviewed by live science he was still able to offer details about the Beast Brown stated that it was ten feet long with a dark grey serpent-like body and a dog shaped head it swam smoothly he said moving up and down in a wave-like motion eyewitness accounts of Kelly have provoked such curiosity that in 1970 the president of the British Columbia Scientific cryptozoology Club John Kirk organized the search for the creature unfortunately the investigation was unsuccessful in August 2005 another team of investigators set out to track the mysterious serpentine Lake dweller despite using a boat equipped with sonar and an underwater camera the search ended in disappointment regardless of these investigative failures there are some people who claim that they have captured Lake simcoe's monster on camera in 1976 a mysterious photograph was taken at the lake published in the local newspaper the strange humps in the water were claimed to be Kelly later in 1991 further visual evidence of the elusive creature came to light it is said that an amateur video recording showing a mystery animal in Lake Simcoe fell into the hands of Don Hepworth an English man with an interest and experiences in cryptozoology Hepworth had appeared on a cryptozoological chat show with the BC SCC's John Kirk in 1991 after the show a viewer had contacted Hepworth with a videotape which he thought may be of interest to him Hepworth proceeded to contact John Kirk who examined the footage the story goes that the cameraman had been enjoying a day of filming a friend racing a hydroplane around Lake Simcoe during the excursion the hydroplane broke down forcing it to be fixed while still out on the water as the racer lifted the front hatch of his boat those on the shore including the cameraman witnessed something strange immediately in front of the boat a large animal rose vertically out of the water the driver was panicked as the creature was clearly a monstrous animal much larger than the Beavers sometimes seen in the lake yet before anyone had a chance to react the creature returned to the water peering upward once more before disappearing out of sight a phenomenal sounding scene indeed however the current whereabouts of the footage is unknown with the identity of the cameraman and the video he filmed being fiercely guarded by John Kirk who claims to have the video in his possession when asked to comment on the video Kirk stated that the video is clear as day of something jumping out of the water and frolicking about my honest opinion was that it looks like a massive seal a seal of some sorts but sincerely very big I've never seen anything like it before but that would be my opinion with the video tape kept hidden from public scrutiny curious onlookers are forced to take Kirk's word for it as far as the mystery of Kempenfelt Kelley goes it still remains despite numerous sightings and personal testimonies no one else has solid evidence for or against this lake dwelling beasts existence [Music] when the Blessed man Colombo was living for some days in the province of the Picts he was obliged to cross the river Ness and when he reached the bank of the river he saw some of the inhabitants burying an unfortunate man who according to the account of those who were burying him was a short time before seized as he was swimming and bitten most severely by a monster that lived in the water written in the 7th century this story refers to an episode from the life of st. Columba a 6th century Irish missionary credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland it is also the first known reference to the Loch Ness monster from the shore of Loch Ness Palumbo is said to have confronted the terrifying monster invoking the name of God and banishing it to the depths of the water since then Nessie as the monster has grown to be known has been a constant presence in the mythology of the Scottish Highlands to many however the lochs famous monster is more than just mythology whilst the scientific community generally disregards the beasts supposed existence this hasn't discouraged scores of investigators from flocking to the Loch in search of nací far from being an isolated event in Columbus time the monster is claimed to have been cited by innumerable people right into the modern day the latest phase of the search for Nessie even has the Loch under constant observation using live Internet cameras sightings continue to flood Nessie hunters databases incredibly some witnesses alleged to have seen the monster up to 18 times descriptions of the water dwelling creature agree that the monster is large and long necked because of this it has been proposed that nasi is a Plesiosaurus ought to have become extinct 66 million years ago at 750 feet deep the bottom of the Loch suffers from poor visibility leading to suggestions that such a creature could remain hidden to even the most pervasive of modern technologies yet not all attempts to catch the Beast have been scientifically rigorous in 2001 Yan Sundberg a Swedish man who styles himself as a monster hunter came to Loch Ness for two weeks with the outrageous intention of catching Nessie in a net however Nessie it turns out had an unexpected protector Kevan kalian the high priest in the British covin of white witches arrived from Hastings England to prevent Sundberg from achieving his aims Carlin performed a special magic ritual at the water's edge to thwart the Swedish monster hunter Sundberg was far from pleased with the high priests appearance aggressively confronting him and threatening to throw him into the water ultimately the white witch's won the day as Sundberg never did to catch his monster this quirky episode was not the first time that the Loch Ness monster became a topic of hot discussion indeed Nessie supposed appearance in photos and film has also created arguments what was claimed to be the first photograph of elusive nací dates back to the 1930s taken by a visiting London doctor the photo is said to show the monsters head and neck for a number of years many accepted the grainy image as evidence of the long spoken of creature however in 1993 a documentary analysis of the full photograph found it to be fraudulent the image condemned regardless there are others who have come forward claiming to have captured Nessie on camera in May 2007 55 year-old laboratory technician Gordon Holmes visited Loch Ness from his home in Yorkshire while there he videotaped what he described as a jet-black thing about 40 meters long moving fairly fast in the water many have applauded the video as being among the best Nessie footage to date as Holmes panned back the shot it is easy to estimate the size of the unidentified creature and how fast it was moving this also makes it less likely to have been a hoax in 2014 it was reported that NASA had been captured on the satellite mapping service Apple maps the image appears to show a large creature just below the surface of the water skeptics have dismissed this image and others as a mixture of wishful thinking and misidentification certainly at such a distance it is difficult to distinguish ripples caused by seals and floating logs from a hitherto extinct aquatic reptile could there really be a Plesiosaurus are beasts living at the bottom of Loch Ness undoubtedly the literature on the monster could fill libraries and with an army of devoted spotters Nessie folklore and field trips are not going to go away anytime soon [Music] Lucca is a general term used to describe sea monsters reported from the Carribean many reports of such creatures come from blue holes large marine caverns and sinkholes which extend well below sea level as blue holes may provide access to submerged cave passages cryptozoologists believe that such locations may very well concealed hitherto unknown species of sea creatures one case of a loose Curt dates back to 1896 when a large carcass washed up on a beach in the United States near st. Augustine Florida the strange remains soon became known as the st. Augustine monster due to the fact that it appeared to be an as of yet to be discovered marine animal it was the evening of the 30th of November 1896 when the carcass was first spotted by two boys who had been riding their bikes along the coast the day after the boys returned to their peculiar discovery with a local physician dr. Webb due to its enormous size the decaying mass at half sunk into the sand upon closer inspection the pale pink bulk was found to be composed of a rubbery substance which could only be cut with great difficulty the mass appeared to have the stumps of at least four arms from what could be seen of the half-buried carcass it was huge it measured 18 feet long and 7 feet wide it was estimated to weigh at least 5 tons dr. Webb's first impression was that it was the mutilated remains of a giant octopus in an advanced state of decomposition with identification provided by a man of science one would think this would be the end of the st. Augustine monster case however it was not to be as the media spread news of the discovery other academics and eyewitnesses came forward to offer different theories as to what the stranded mass could be to many it was regarded as a monster of legend in early January of the next year he storm tide dragged the carcass back out to sea it really mild south of its original location having been washed ashore on Crescent Beach this provided the opportunity for academics to re-examine the mysterious remains one such specialist was Professor Addison Emery Verrill of Yale at the time the foremost authority on cephalopods namely squid and octopus at first he suggested that the st. Augustine monster was the remains of a giant squid yet the Yale professor soon changed his mind stating that the Beast was not a giant squid but rather an octopus of enormous previously unknown to science proportions throughout the examination of the perplexing creature numerous photographs were taken and sketches made due to its enormous size interest in the carcass was widespread with dozens of volunteers gathering at the beach to help with the examination yet it was the very size of the creature which was the problem according to a local news she it's great size and immense weight have thus far prevented it from being moved for a more careful examination a dozen men with blocks and tackle not being able to even turn it over eventually dr. Webb and a team of six horses were able to drag the mass further inland so that it would not be washed out to sea again asides from becoming something of a short-lived tourist attraction no one knows what happened to the carcass evidently still unsure professor verrell's final word on the matter was that the creature was not an octopus or squid but the detached head of a sperm whale in more modern times samples from the carcass in the 19th century have been reanalyzed yet far from clarifying the identity of the strange remains they have only complicated the mystery in 1971 dr. Joseph F Gennaro jr. a cell biologist at the University of Florida compared the connective tissue of the st. Augustine carcass with known octopus and squid species his findings proved beyond any doubt that the creature was not a whale's head as Verrill had concluded rather the st. Augustine Monster was in fact an octopus using knowledge of the bodily proportions of known octopus species the implication was that the carcass represented a gigantic sea creature with arms seventy-five to a hundred feet in length meaning a total spread of 200 feet in 1986 further scientific analysis supported this conclusion stating that the creature had most likely been an octopus not referral to any known species yet in 1995 and 2004 the identity of the monstrous remains was once again challenged this time scientific data suggested that the creature had not been an octopus squid or the head of a sperm whale rather it was now described as simply being a big blob of whale blubber with so many different scientific interpretations the identity of the st. augustine monster remains unresolved was it merely whale blubber misidentified by 19th century academics or was it the remains of a yet to be discovered species of giant octopus a creature capable of remaining hidden lurking in blue holes and underwater caverns invisible to even the most modern of scientific technologies thank you for watching if you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe and share this video on social media so that others can watch it too to end I would like to extend a big thank you to our patrons for their support the last month if you would like to support us on patreon you can do so for as little as one dollar a month and if you cannot wait until my next upload why not watch another suggested on screen now you

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Published: Fri Feb 09 2018