the rock the peoples champ video documentary

In the early seventeenth century, Abenaki guides told French captains to be careful not to disturb the monsters that live in the waters of Lake Champlain.'Ī 'Big Board of Champ Sightings' stands near Bulwagga Bay.

In his book 'The Untold Story of Champ: A Social History of America's Loch Ness Monster,' sociologist Robert Bartholomew notes that 'Native Americans living along Lake Champlain told stories of a mysterious 'horned serpent' that was said to reside in the lake. Indeed, some people believe that early Americans have reported seeing Champ (or its ancestors). If the lake monster has been around for hundreds or thousands of years, surely there would be records of it.

With the best evidence for Champ debunked - and no hard evidence such as bones or dead bodies ever recovered - this leaves eyewitnesses to provide the bulk of the proof for the aquatic creature's existence. The only thing that made the Mansi photo unique, mysterious and famous was that it resembled a dinosaur-like head and hump from one angle. This is a well-known hydrological phenomenon that has created false lake monster sightings before (the process is similar to why plastic drinking straws rise in carbonated drinks).

That dark, humped 'creature' was revealed to be a submerged tree trunk briefly brought to the surface by buoyant gases created during decomposition. Field investigations conducted (by the author of this article) for a Discovery Channel documentary show revealed that Mansi overestimated the object's size the 'neck' of the object sticks about three feet out of the water, and both segments together are about seven feet across.

The rock the peoples champ video documentary