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A lake in northeastern Canada harbours a legendary monster. The descriptions match those told by Native Americans of swimming demons and water devils; eels, longer than a canoe and strong enough to capsize a boat. - We hear of stories of gigantic eels. - Is it possible that something dreadful has made this lake its home? Or is this a local legend, passed down for centuries? - It's almost a badge of honour if you've seen it. - A Monster Quest team dives into the icy murk to find out what slithers beneath and employs the latest technology to seek the truth about Lake Crescent's monster eel. - What the heck was that? - Witnesses around the world report seeing monsters. Are they real or imaginary? Science searches for answers on Monster Quest. Robert's Arm, a fishing town nestled amid the rugged bays of Newfoundland's northeastern coast, is a seemingly peaceful place. But beneath the still, black waters of majestic Lake Crescent, something is said to live as it has for untold years. - I saw the head and it was kind of long-featured. There was no waves on either side, it was just a deep swell. - It wasn't moving in the water but it was... it had this tendency to be vibrating. - The head was like, long, pointy. - It was dark. I'd say it was 30-feet long. - Witnesses describe a serpentine creature, 20 to 40 feet long, with a snake-like head and featureless body. It most closely resembles an eel, but compared to any known eel, fresh or saltwater, this is a monster. Sightings of similar phenomena are reported across Canada, from Lake Okanagan in British Columbia and Lake Manitoba in Manitoba to Lake Memphremagog in Quebec on the Vermont border. But this is the first scientific investigation into the monster of Lake Crescent. Lake and ocean monsters have a long history. A Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gesner, was the first to try to classify these unknown giants. For two centuries North American sailors have reported sea serpents, all along the Eastern Seaboard. But the oldest accounts in this area come from stories passed down from the very first native settlers of this continent. - DR. JOHN M. CASSELMAN, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Queen's University: If you'll talk to the Algonquins and you interview them, they talk about serpents. - John Casselman, a biologist at Queen's University, Kingston, has investigated these native legends. - And you ask them, and you question them, and you think maybe serpents are snakes. But when you talk to them about serpents, they'll tell you that serpents are not snakes. - Tales of these unlikely lake monsters have persisted here for centuries. Terrified, Native Americans referred to them as pond devils or swimming demons. What were these tribal members seeing? Is it possible that these stories of swimming demons can be explained by a giant eel? There are about 600 species of eels in the world. They are fierce carnivores with a notoriously indiscriminate appetite preferring live fish and large invertebrates. Most eels possess a highly developed sense of smell to track their prey. With their serpent-like heads, slimy bodies, cold, beady eyes and razor sharp teeth, the eel is a creature reviled and feared by some. Although not common, eels have even been known to attack humans. In April 2005, British tourist Matt Butcher was diving off the Similan Islands in Thailand when a moray eel latched onto Butcher's left thumb. Once the eel bit into his flesh, Butcher was powerless to get it off. Within seconds, the powerful jaws and needle-like teeth had sliced through the skin, bone and cartilage. Casselman is the first to admit that even after a century of research, biologists still know very little about eels. - Eels, they are very interesting and in many ways very mysterious because we've never seen a spawning eel. They are very ancient fish. They are among the most ancient fish. - The largest and most ferocious of the species are all oceanic eels. And although Casselman doubts the existence of a 30-foot-long eel living in a lake, he cannot say with certainty that it could not occur. - Every now and then we hear of stories of gigantic eels occurring in fresh water. And there's some really well-documented observations on these. - One of these sightings was by a man who has decades of experience with the native North American eel. - JOHN RORABECK, electrofisherman: I've been fishing since the late '50s. I started with eels, so it kept going from there. And the first thing I knew, I was in the eel-fishing business. - John Rorabeck is a commercial eel fisherman on Lake Ontario. The fish is considered a delicacy in Europe and Asia. It's a profitable catch. In 1974, Rorabeck was fishing with his father on Lake Ontario and claims that he encountered an eel of gigantic proportions. - After a long day fishing for eels, Rorabeck caught sight of a massive shape coming towards him in the water. - Well, when it come to me, I was in moss, so all I could see was a big hump coming. So I dropped on top of him, like that, I was gonna flip him in the boat. - As Rorabeck attempted to catch hold of the creature, it reared up and was strong enough to lift the man out of the water. - He just hoisted me in the air, he went right down underneath me. He was too big. - Rorabeck fought to wrestle with the large, slippery creature. - And he turned around and come back. And when he come back I got on him again, this time with my whole body. - But whatever the creature was, it was too strong. - He just slid right on through, just shoved me in the air. There was no way you were gonna hold that thing. It was monstrous. To see something like that, it's like something you think you look in a movie, you know? - The incident left Rorabeck shaken. Whatever it was that he encountered that night, he knew that it didn't belong in these waters. - It wasn't the North American eel. The only other eel that I know that is anywhere near that size is the conger. - But conger eels do not inhabit fresh water lakes. They can tip the scales at 200 pounds and have been known to measure over 12 feet in length. They are terrifying and voracious night predators. Locking their incredibly strong jaws onto their prey, they twist and turn their bodies like a screw, ripping away chunks of flesh. And although the conger is exclusively an ocean eel, Rorabeck's suggestion may make more sense than it seems. - The thing that's unique and interesting about congers is from time to time, we see eels in fresh water that are gigantic eels. These were eels that were 2 metres, more than 2 metres long, 6, 7 feet long, you know, 8, 10 inches in diameter and truly gigantic. - Eight hundred miles downriver, from where Rorabeck had his encounter in Lake Ontario, the island of Newfoundland, in eastern Canada, guards the entrance to the St. Lawrence estuary. It's here, at Crescent Lake, that locals say the granddaddy of such creatures has been sighted for centuries. - Ever since I was a kid, I always, you know, I always heard stories. - Effie Colbourne has lived on the lakeside for more than 32 years. She says many of the older generation told of something menacing in the lake. - EFFIE COLBOURNE, eyewitness: I believe it because all the older folks were reliable people. At certain times, they would see, OK, they'd have a sighting of... they called it a monster, so... - There have been numerous sightings here over the past 100 years and the legendary stories from Lake Crescent continue to emerge. One such account from the 1980s told of Royal Canadian Mounted Police divers searching for the corpse of a drowning victim. As the scuba divers braved the murky waters, they found themselves surrounded by a school of vicious eels said to be a thick as a man's thigh. The massive creatures then attacked the divers who quickly swam to the surface to escape. There's a problem with this story. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have no record of such an attack. Still, many legends bear a kernel of truth. In this case, it's the sightings that date back to ancient times. Even so, this man is sceptical of the existence of Cressie, the nickname given to the monster by locals. - It's not likely that there's something unknown to science in these waters. - After years spent investigating the lake monsters of North America, author and researcher, Joe Nickell believes that Lake Crescent's monster is more local legend than scientific fact. He believes it's self perpetuating. - JOE NICKELL, Paranormal Investigator, Author: Someone sees something and they tell a story and pretty soon, it's almost a badge of honour if you've seen it. - Nickell will offer up his own explanations and will perform an experiment to test whether the sightings can be explained away as mere optical illusion. - Twenty to thirty... - Meanwhile, a forensic sketch artist will produce the first images of the lake monster, and analyze the startling consistency between the many witness sightings. If a professional sketch reveals that different people are seeing the same details, it could suggest that what they are seeing is very real: an eel, 3 times longer than the largest documented specimen, lurking in the waters of Lake Crescent. Waters that marine biologist Richard Haedrich, will search employing traps, sonar, divers and submersible technology. - DR. RICHARD HAEDRICH, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Memorial University: Most of my experiences is working in the ocean and particularly in the deep sea. I'm a firm believer that there's plenty out there that we don't know about. - Now, Richard Haedrich is determined to find what would be the greatest discovery of his career: a monster eel. - So I guess what we want to do now is just head down the middle of this East basin here. - ALWIN RIDEOUT, Safety Diver: There's trout in this lake, and there's salmon. And there's what we call salmon peel, you know? - Yes, but there are eels. - Oh yes, there's eels, plenty of eels here. - Local fisherman and expedition pilot Alwin Rideout has lived on the shores of this lake his whole life. - When you hear stories like this, particularly ones that go back a long ways, they have their foundations in something. So the idea that something could be in here of large size and quite mysterious is not at all surprising. - The local topography suggests an extremely deep body of water. Lake Crescent is nearly as mysterious as the monster that locals say inhabit it. - Although there are no depths indicated in the lake, people have told us that it's virtually bottomless. - Will Lake Crescent finally give up its darkest secret? - What is that thing, can you tell? - You saw it, didn't you? - The people of Robert's Arm in eastern Canada claim to have seen an extraordinary and terrifying beast rumoured to be over 20 feet long. - EFFIE COLBOURNE, Eyewitness: I think people think you're crazy. And if I am, I still saw it. - Effie Colbourne is not the only witness. In the past two decades, there have been at least a dozen sightings. - I was just appalled at what I saw. - FRED PARSONS, Eyewitness: My wife and I were driving. And I've got a tendency to always look in the lake. - What Fred Parsons saw in July 1991 was astonishing. - Lo and behold, there was the creature, just lying on the water. So that's when I backed up and I don't know, I would say I observed it for 30 to 40 seconds. I was shocked. I was dumbfounded. I just couldn't believe it, you know? It wasn't moving in the water, but it had this tendency to be vibrating and consequently there was a number of low-profile waves and ripples emanating from its body all around. I mean, I estimated it to be between 15 and 20 feet long. I'm convinced that what I saw was some kind of a giant eel, that's the way I'd describe it. - The Lake Crescent eyewitnesses are about to undergo their first real test. - MICHEL FOURNIER, Forensic Artist: If you see a creature like this in the lake, your emotions will be quite high so you will store that information in a very special place in your brain. - Michel Fournier, a forensic sketch artist, is more used to working with victims of crimes, but for him, the principle is exactly the same. Due to a lack of photographic evidence, Fournier will sketch the monster, based on detailed recollections of witnesses. - You need to enter somebody else's mind and extract that information. But first of all, you need to establish if that person is telling the truth. - So there was little small waves emanating from all around his body. - That thing was not moving? - No, the thing... - Except the shivering. - Except the shivering motion. - OK. - Exactly. - Fournier's intensive training allows him to deduce from questioning whether the eyewitness is reliable. - This thing was round, Fred, not flat, it was round. - Exactly. It's a rounder... snout. I'll call a little rounder snout here. - After two hours work, Fournier lets the witness see his final sketch. - Is there any change you want me to... - No. That's right. - No? OK. So, on a scale of one to ten... - I'm going to rate it at... At least a 9. - OK. That's good. That's good. - Meanwhile, Richard Haedrich is trying to get a better understanding of Lake Crescent and makes an interesting discovery. - DR. RICHARD HAEDRICH, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Memorial University: You can tell that certainly the deepest places are going to be hard by those cliffs and then down along there. Then, there's a connection to the lake through this river where there are no prominent waterfalls. It provides very good access to the sea. - Eels traditionally spawn in the salt water of the Sargasso Sea, an elongated region in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, but exactly where in this region remains a mystery. - DR. JOHN M. CASSELMAN, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Queen's University: It's very unique because we have never seen a spawning eel. They leave the fresh water and go to the ocean. And when they go to the ocean, the only time that we know that they have been successful, is their young starting to swim back by way of the Gulf Stream. - It's a pattern of behaviour that goes back 250 million years to the time of Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed prior to the continents' splitting into their current configuration. - Eels evolved probably 125 million years ago. We know that they survived continental drift. In other words, they lived in the ocean and started to use fresh waters before the continents divided. - Is it possible that this ancient species, at home in both fresh and salt water, might have spawned a monster still living in Lake Crescent? If so, then modern technology, like side-scanning sonar, might help find the beast. - What this is called, it's called a fish. And what it is, it's something that you tow along, and it has little echo sounders basically built into the sides of it. So what this does, it'll look at the bottom where things might like to hang out, sit around. - How deep do you have there? - Sixty-nine. - Sixty-nine, OK, yeah. - The sonar images show the areas that should be explored further with divers and submersible cameras. - Plenty of water, maybe 80 feet. - Seventy-nine. - Seventy? OK. - Seventy-nine, but the bottom is very rough there. - It's showing it rough, well, that's probably a lot of rocks. It's going to be a very interesting place to dive and have a look at it, just right here. - Eels are known to hide in dark crevices in deep waters. The sonar images show that this could be an ideal habitat. - There's kind of a little basin in between us and the cliff face. So there's a rock ridge that's running underneath us. It goes up here. So this is a real good place. These are going to provide caves and ledges and overhangs and that sort of thing, which would be good shelter, particularly for a large eel. - A baited crab trap is used to attract the attention of whatever lives at the bottom of Lake Crescent. - This is the area where most of the sightings of any of these mysterious creatures have been. - In lake that's only 6 miles long, a few herring can go a long way, especially for the highly refined senses of a giant eel. - An eel can smell a herring a thousand miles away. They really can. They are extremely sensitive. - Haedrich is hoping that an easy prey will lure the monster to this spot. And Joe Nickell examines a strange set of photos that could explain the lake beast. - No question. If it's an eel, it's huge. - The residents of Robert's Arm, on the coast of Newfoundland in northeastern Canada, are convinced their lake is home to a monster eel that the local media has dubbed Cressie. But Joe Nickell, as he examines the evidence, is sceptical. He is an investigator of cryptids -- creatures whose existence has been reported but not scientifically proven. - JOE NICKELL, Paranormal Investigator, Author: I have here a series of photographs and this, certainly, this first photograph could be a very long, very gigantic eel, as far as one can tell from the photograph. It's obviously long, curved, snake-like. You can see from some idea of the surrounding rock and so forth that this is not just something little but it's sizeable. Here we see where the animal's body is very flexible and it looks like an arch or a hump in the water. We sometimes hear something having a series of these as if it's moving, very snake-like, very serpentine. No question this is a living creature. If it's an eel, it's certainly eel-like and it's huge. Then we see in the next photo a dramatic shift. We see now that we can see two creatures and they begin to look familiar to us. Otters. Here it is, furry and not looking so sleek and wet and flexible, but this is the same creature. - River otters are rare but not unknown in the area around Robert's Arm. Could locals have misidentified this lake monster? - Here's a classic sea-serpent, lake monster type of drawing. And yet, if we look closer, if we were the eyewitness and could peer underwater and see what were actually the case, we see that this is a separate animal. This is a separate animal. And we recognize them now as otters. And it's like a magician's illusion. It's an optical illusion of sorts. It's a misperception. - Whatever sceptics say, locals are sure that what they are seeing are not otters or anything else known to man. - I definitely saw a head and a body. Whatever it was, it was real. - In 1995 Effie Colbourne had the longest sighting of the creature yet. She watched the monster cross the lake for more than 15 minutes. - EFFIE COLBOURNE, Eyewitness: I was just more or less in deep thought. And the movement, when I just glanced, the movement caught my eye. I went to the window. I saw the head and it was kind of long-featured. And the body, when it swam, it was like a swell. There was no waves on either side, it was just a deep swell. I watched it for about 15, 20 minutes because the lake is long and I watched it until it went out of sight. I surmised at the time that it was probably 20 to 30 feet and it could've been longer. - Forensic artist Michel Fournier attempts to translate Effie's account into an accurate image. - Well, at the beginning, I said, what came in my mind, like a horse's head... But it was not as big as a horse's head. It was more slim, and more pointy. But that's the first thought, when I saw the head. - Look at the sketch. What do you think? Do you think that it looks like the shape of the head? - Yes. - It kind of looked like this? - Yes, it did, yes. - Anything you want to change or add or... - No, no. - No, you're happy with this? - Yes. - OK. - Back on the lake, the Monster Quest expedition adds some new technology to its arsenal. - DR. RICHARD HAEDRICH, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Memorial University: We're up to the second day now, and we've added a bunch of new pieces of gear which are very exciting to have. One of them is a sonar not unlike the side-scan sonar that we used yesterday but it's going to be much higher resolution. And in conjunction with that, we have an ROV which is a wonderful little instrument. - With this instrument we hope that perhaps we might actually be able to see Cressie at some point today. - OK, we're connected and secured. - Richard Vander Voort has been working with underwater robotics for over 25 years. He has piloted Remote Operated Vehicles in many dangerous environments, from oil rigs to shipwrecks, but this is his first at Lake Crescent. - RICHARD VANDER VOORT, ROV Chair, The Marine Institute: So for today's exercise we have our video ray eyeball ROV, which is dual-camera: colour pan and tilt camera in the front, black and white stationary camera in the back. Visibility is always a problem with operating ROV's. We do have our avoidance sonar, which we deployed earlier. That allows us basically to see in the dark, so if there are any object there, we can pick it up on sonar first. That will give us a target to fly over to with the vehicle. - With an ability to go as deep as 1000 feet, the ROV is the perfect way to investigate rocky outcrops, caves and crevices, where bottom-dwelling eels are most likely to be found, including, possibly, a mammoth species that shouldn't be here. - The idea of a conger eel, which is one of the largest of eels and does occur in the salt water here, coming up and occasionally making its home here is perfectly... It's believable for sure, you know? It gets lost. And this happens a lot in the ocean. - The conger eel is a fearsome creature. They can weigh up to 200 pounds and are known by fisherman for their terrifying fighting power. They will eat anything that moves and are strong enough to take down seabirds and aquatic mammals, their razor-sharp teeth and huge jaws easily crushing through bone and crustaceans. Haedrich has a plausible theory for how a displaced conger could grow to monstrous proportions. - What happens, instead of some of the food energy that it gets having to go into reproduction, it can all go into growth. And so these things can grow and get very large. - A 30-foot conger could reach half a ton, easily capable of overcoming and devouring a full grown man, leaving no trace of its victim. - All right, then, Phil, whenever you're ready. - OK! - The Monster Quest expedition crew is about to see for the first time into the deepest reaches of Lake Crescent. - For nearly a century, the residents of Robert's Arm in eastern Canada have spoken of a monster that lurks in majestic Lake Crescent. Described as serpentine but larger than any known eel, some believe it could be a displaced ocean dweller. The Monster Quest expedition crew have captured something on their ROV camera. - You're down at the bottom and 50 feet. - Yeah. - OK, now.. Just sticks lying there or actual trails? They look to me like trails. Something's made these little tracks. Now, we can't see anything right at the moment, except when... See that stuff? - Eels, that is? - It... it could be. I mean, there's not a lot of candidates that would make those tracks. They're small tracks. Well, there's a big one! There's another one right there. There's something... What the heck was that? - That's my tether. - Oh, that was your tether lying, yeah, OK. - Once the waters settle, Haedrich wonders if the trails could be typical lake bottom disturbances. A closer look shows strange patterns emerging from the murk, as if something heavy has slithered along the lake floor. - It's very familiar to people that look at bottom photographs all the time to see tracks all over the bottom usually made by crabs and snails and things like that. I think that this looks like a latticework of sticks to me. - Meanwhile, investigator of cryptids Joe Nickell wants to put eyewitness claims to the test. - JOE NICKELL, Paranormal Investigator, Author: So we're going to take this out in the middle of the lake, anchor it and then ask the eyewitnesses to guesstimate the length of it, and we'll see if they're able to do that at an unknown distance. The log seems a good idea. It's a natural object. It's something that people would see in a lake and sometimes do mistake for lake monsters. People make estimates but they really don't usually have any frame of reference. They're just... It's an impression. If there's something next to it, a rock of known size or a boat or something, then you would have some scale. - Nickell anchors the log in centre of the eastern basin: the location of most of the Cressie sightings. As Nickell gathers the eyewitnesses for the experiment, Richard Haedrich and the team have found an excellent spot to search for an oversized and hungry eel. - DR. RICHARD HAEDRICH, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Memorial University: My belief is that any animal is never gonna go very far from where it can get something to eat. And the best place in here is where the lake narrows, chokes down to that little narrow entrance at the bridge. And there were fish jumping, there was a loon, there were all kinds of things going on, so that, for my money, is where you want to look for something that is probably out looking for a meal. - And to find it, the ROV is sent back into the murky water. - Whoa! More of that soft stuff! - Yes. - Look at this salt. Look at all this soft sediment. - Yes. Hard to say. - Something for the divers to have a look at, see what the heck that really is. I mean, it's all... A lot of structure in that. A lot of structure! See these little holes and things? - Eels. - The soft bottom of the lake would provide excellent coverage for an eel waiting to ambush its next victim. The massive disturbances on the lake's floor grabs Haedrich's attention. - Look at that! That looks like a bunch of bones. See them, like that? - Big eels. - Big eels down in there. - Yeah. - With some intriguing targets to explore, the divers prepare to go head-to-head with whatever's hiding down in Lake Crescent. - OK, so we make this the divers, right at the moment. We'll see what happens on the sweep back. - RICHARD VANDER VOORT, ROV Chair, The Marine Institute: We're reporting the position of where the divers are. Now those are two men and basically you've got a relatively small dot, you know, because they're only about 2 metres long or 2 metres high. If you had a large animal that was, say, 10, 15, 20 metres long, it would cover 2 or 3 of the bars, of the range indicators on the screen, all right? It would be, compared to that dot, it would be 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 times longer. - The water is just above freezing and visibility is less than 3 feet. As the divers swim along the bottom, something looms in the distance. It's a branch. So far, no signs of any food source. The bottom is a barren landscape, and yet they see something else. A place to hide. Another place to hide. - I was very concerned for the safety of the cameraman. - Support diver Robert Lindfield knows that uncharted lakes can be treacherous. - As we swam along the bottom and approached any object, it was invisible and then all of a sudden it was there. The entire lake is a complete hiding spot because where the water is so black, the creature could be, you know, within feet of the surface and you could pass over it in a boat and never see it. - The footage they bring back is worth the effort. - It's wonderful to see these logs that are all... They're all cut wood. They're not things that have fallen in there, so they might well be left over from the logging days. Just... lots of sort of nooks and crannies, but a very inhospitable place basically. It looks like a rock. - But for Joe Nickell, the log-strewn lakebed suggests another case of misidentification. - Given the amount of logs at the bottom of the lake, it's possible for, over time, due to rotting of the logs, to produce methane gas. And this makes the log buoyant. At the surface it can rock back and forth or bob, at which point it loses the methane and the log sinks again. - Could Fred Parson's vibrating eel-like creature be a log, rolling at the surface of the water? - The rising and sinking log effect is roughly demonstrated in this old science experiment where we're putting a mothball into some carbonated water. And as you see, it quickly becomes coated with bubbles and rises to the top. Now the bubbles should hopefully dissipate, whereupon we're going to expect, as it loses bubbles... It rolls, it's animated, it's alive. - Back on the lake, the Monster Quest team is about to discover there may be something in Lake Crescent, and it's big enough to drag a 40-pound crab trap. - We came up alongside the buoy and we'd set it down off the point there, so something moved it around! - Native legends and historical accounts describe sea serpents all along the Eastern Seaboard. Biologists suggest that a stray, infertile conger eel could grow into a monster. Is Newfoundland, Canada, home to a record setting creature? This woman watched for 15 minutes as an undulating monster made its way across Lake Crescent. This man is convinced that the mystery lake creature he saw was real. This fisherman saw what he thought was a 20-foot-long giant eel. Michel Fournier, a forensic artist, creates the first images of the monster based on detailed recall of the eyewitnesses. And Joe Nickell is putting the locals through a test of perception. - JOE NICKELL, Paranormal Investigator, Author: I'd like to try a little experiment with you if I can. What we're gonna do is we are gonna see if you are able to guess at the size of something in the water. It's an unknown distance, unknown object. And we'll see how well you do, OK? - OK. - OK. We're gonna stand... I think right here is a good view. I want you to say how long you think that is. What do you think? - Oh, I think it's probably 20 feet. - Twenty feet? OK. Twenty feet. That's perfect, now, well... How long do you think that is? - Twenty to thirty feet? - Twenty to thirty? OK. - The size I say is... 18 feet long. - OK. OK, the real distance is, the real length is... Actually, you know, you did not so bad, it's 14 feet, 3 inches. They did overestimate the size. I think that's almost always the case. And people tend, if they see something alive and alarming or really rare and wonderful, the size, I think, gets magnified by some factor. - However, two of the estimates were within 6 feet of the actual length, showing that the eyewitness recollections of a monster or creature up to 30 feet long may have been accurate. Haedrich and the Monster Quest team return to the crab trap. Earlier, the crab trap was baited with herring and attached to a buoy to offer an enticing meal to the creature. Suspicions are immediately raised when they realize the trap been moved. - DR. RICHARD HAEDRICH, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Memorial University: We came up alongside the buoy and we'd set it down off the point there, and expected to go right back to it. But it seems to have moved down here, so something moved it around. It wasn't very windy at all last night. In fact, this morning it was flat calm. It's a pretty heavy trap and it's gonna to take something pretty big to shift that around. That in this real deep water where there are no currents or anything, it has moved... What would you say? Two hundred feet? - Two hundred feet - Two hundred feet or more. - The ROV is used to check whether anything has disturbed or damaged the trap. - Thirty feet. - How deep is it here? - Forty feet. We think it's about 100. - One hundred. - Now we're coming right to the trap, that's the line off the top of the trap. - Oh, OK. - And so you're gonna see the trap in just a very short distance. - That's it. - There's the trap. - Oops... - And this is why we're seeing all the turbulence because we're towing the trap. Look at that. And there's the herrings and nothing's been at them. We got a real good look at the trap. And we saw it from the top and from the bottom, because it was tipped over a little bit by the boat itself. And what we could see was the herrings were in fine shape. Nothing had been in there munching away at them or eating out a part of them or anything. - The untouched trap is a disappointment, but then... they see something moving across the bay. - What is that thing, can you tell? - Whatever it is, it's not visible on the surface, but it's producing a foot-long wake. - Well, that was a mysterious creature swimming along. I don't know. - What was it? - I don't know. You saw it, didn't you? There it is, right there. It's a beaver. Did you get him? Going across towards the rock, right in the still area. - Yes, I got it. - It's too bad it's a beaver. - Ha ha ha! - It's quite a mysterious place, down here. - But Michel Fournier, forensic artist, concludes that his sketches do depict something real. - I believe that we're all dealing with the same creature. - The clarity of the witness recollections and consistencies in their descriptions are difficult to dismiss. Details in the size, movement and shape of the creature are unwaveringly similar. - MICHEL FOURNIER, Forensic Artist: The three persons I met today definitely saw something in that lake. - And the Monster Quest expedition reluctantly packs up. - If I'd gotten a sonar target then I'd go to court tomorrow. - RICHARD VANDER VOORT, ROV Chair, The Marine Institute: Certainly, if we could spend a little more time, get a little more hardware out here, I think, if there was something to be found, I'm confident I could find it. I really am. - The mystery behind the creature of Lake Crescent will remain just that. Whether it is an oversized conger eel that has lost its way, a sunken log, or, as witnesses believe, truly a monster. - There's a kind of person who loves a mystery and wants it kept a mystery. They do not want an explanation. And for those people, this will continue. - I saw something in the water, I don't know what it was, so it must have been a lake monster. And you can't draw a conclusion from "I don't know". - You know, I seen it. That's all I can do. You can't... You know, it was there. No doubt, it was there. - For some, they believe. Others are still doubters, you know? But to me, I believe what I saw. I strongly believe in what I saw.

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Length: 45min 12sec (2712 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 22 2020