Happy New Year 2019!

I have over 30 yrs of Newspaper files of Champ that I obtained from my good friend Lohr McKinstry who worked for the Press Republican Newspaper. Just starting to scan a whole bunch in between writing my Champ papers which will be published soon. Here is one and many to follow! Stay tuned for more updates 🙂

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Cheers to a new season of Champ Research!

The Lake temperature is climbing and Champ season is approaching! We have many expeditions in store for this season and to go with that a new research vessel!  The next few weeks,  we will be updating this blog and our website.

Here is our new boat..”Champtany”.

Mass Champ sighting aboard the “Spirit of Ethan Allen”. A Hoax????

July 30, 1984. The largest mass Champ sighting in history occurs aboard a sightseeing boat called The Spirit of Ethan Allen. Near Appletree Point, the approximate time was around six o’clock in the evening. Between seventy and eighty-six passengers were aboard. The creature remained for about three minutes. Three to five humps surfaced, each about 12 inches out of the water. They estimated the creature to be about 30 feet long. It was described as green-brown and slimy-looking like a frog. It swam parallel with the boat for 1,000 yards until a speedboat approached. The creature then turned 90 degrees and submerged.

But was this mass sighting really a hoax??? This anonymous email with the alias MR2KSpyder was submitted.

Here is the email..

Ive been sitting on this story long enough. The 1984 Champ sighting from the “Spirit of Ethan Allen” was a hoax.I’m sure that you are already aware that this “sighting” occurred in shallow water in the wrong part of the lake and was quite uncharacteristic of other sightings in many ways.I worked for LCT Co. for many years; during that time, I became well-acquainted with certain contractor.

In 1985, he revealed to me that he, in collaboration with others (Ill leave it to you to guess who), had contrived an apparatus consisting of a length of large-diameter, flexible air blower hose configured in a serpentine fashion and painted and ballasted so that only the “humps” would be visible above the surface. The depth of this hose, and consequently the height of the “humps” was controlled by a buoyancy chamber that the diver (the contractor) was able to fill with air to allow it to rise or with water, so as to sink. And so as the Spirit approached the pre-determined point, the diver surfaced “Champ” and towed him slowly along!

So, there you have it!

What with the hungry attorneys these days, I prefer to remain anonymous.
Sincerely,MR2KSpyder

Water Horse of Lake Champlain II

Memphre

I was fortunate to take a trip to Lake Memphremagog this past summer..a very strange lake! Looking forward to investigating it this year!

New book to be published in 2015!

The new book Enigmas of The Deep will be published in 2015. The book will be a comprehensive and lengthy guide to various Lake Monsters around the world. Stay tuned!!

Selma Recording Vs. Champ Recording

I found it extremely interesting that operation GUST which was ran by Jan Sundberg recorded a sound from an unknown animal during the summer of 1999 in Lake Seljordsvatnet, After listening to this recording it sounds quite similar to the recording we captured July 2014 in Lake Champlain and the same Low Frequency as well. Another thing that I was suprised to find out is that Operation GUST used the same Dolphin Ear Hydrophone system as we used.

It was the hydrophone that provided the first clues at 10.39 PM on Friday, 20 August 1999 when unusual sounds started to be heard and recorded. Sundberg, leader of the team, said “the sounds came and went, as they were to do in the days to come, and sometimes they seemed very close, sometimes further away. It was regular because we recorded a certain amount each day, and irregular because we never knew when the sounds would be there. At some point we heard one large sound and a little later two faint ones, one after the other.” Team member and sound engineer Eele Jansma said: “you could count on hearing them at least 5-8 times a day. When I heard the sound for the first time, I went outside and studied our buoy (where the hydrophone was located) in the field-binoculars … but neither that time nor later I saw as much as a ripple on the water by the buoy and therefore it could hardly be a sea-lion”. There had been speculation that the ‘monster in the lake’ might have been nothing more than a seal-lion, but the absence of any surface breathing tends to rule that possibility out.

Another interesting observation was made by Sundberg: “Passing boats were a nuisance and when there was a lot of propeller noise in the water, the sounds could not be heard. This was both due to the strong propeller noise and, it seemed, because whatever was making the sound was frighted away for at least an hour and a half before we could hear and record it again.” Which seems to rule out the possibility that the sound was caused by some natural phenomenon – like the sudden release of trapped gases from the bottom of the lake.

The GUST team operates in a gray world between science and paranormal occurrences. As such, they can be assured of incurring the wrath of both! Yet, they are developing and refining techniques that will be useful to researchers in other areas of the world.

In February and August 2000, our DolphinEAR hydrophone system were be used in the search at Lake Seljordsvatnet. This is the same hydrophone system used by NATO and available ‘over the counter’ to the public. Being extremely rugged and portable DolphinEAR was used by mobile teams trying to pinpoint other sound ‘hotspots’ within the lake.

Passive monitoring of a body of water with a hydrophone produces results that other detection systems don’t equal – simply because it emits no signal to scare off the ‘target’ of a search. As land creatures, we human folks are at a great disadvantage when it comes to exploring the underwater world. We rely on our eyes – which is only natural. Underwater it’s a world of darkness where creatures use SOUND to navigate, hunt and communicate. Sounds travel long distances in water – much like light travels long distances in air – so it’s natural that water creatures would use sound for their own needs.

Our recording was also below 1 KHZ

Here is a comparison of our recording of Champ and the recording of Selma.

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