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Lake Monster Mysteries

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by Benjamin Radford


  Mansi, Anthony

  Mansi, Sandra; deafness of monster, as described by; eyewitness testimony; process gone through after taking photograph; publication of photograph, events of; taking the photograph

  Mansi photograph of “Champ,” Fig. 2.6; animating, as part of investigation, Figs. A1–A5; camera used; conclusion, after investigation; experiment to imitate, Fig. 2.10, Fig. 2.11; Frieden analysis of; hump and head not connected; hydrographic explanation of driftwood rising and falling; journalistic errors in reporting expert analysis of; lack of movement of monster; lack of organs on head; lack of photographs after publication of; LeBlond analysis; location of sighting; negatives; original print; process gone through about before and after publication; Radford analysis, Fig. 2.10; Radford analysis, conclusion; sandbar in; scientific analysis of; sinking into water; size determination, Fig. 2.10; tracing from enlargement of, Fig. 2.7

  maps, with monsters depicted, Fig. 1.1

  Maquam Bay, Lake Champlain

  Martinez, Lionel

  Massawippi, Lake

  Massey, N.

  Maugel, T.

  McElroy, Rob

  McKinney, Mary

  Memphremagog, Lake, Fig. 3.1; name, origin of

  “Memphre” of Lake Memphremagog; description; name, origin of; photographs, Fig. 3.2, Fig. 3.3; sightings of

  Meurger, Michel; and “Champ,”; and monster legends

  Micmac Indians

  “Migo,” Lake Dakatua, New Britain

  mink

  Missiquoi Bay, Lake Champlain

  mistaken sightings; “Bangles fallacy,” of mistaking art forreality; “bandwagon effect,” of sightings increased by publicity; beavers, Fig. 3.3; boat wakes; “Champ” of Lake Champlain; “Cressie” of Lake Crescent; crocodiles; deer, swimming; distorted perceptions; dolphins; driftwood; ducks; fish; heightened expectancy; Loch Ness monster; logs, Figs. A1–A5; manatee; moose; otters; otters swimming in a line, Fig. 7.5; overestimation of size; Silver Lake serpent; sturgeon; watercraft as swimming monsters; water reflections

  mokele-mbembe, of Africa

  Monk, Jerry

  Monster Hunters (documentary), Fig. 7.8

  Monster Island. See Rattlesnake Island, Lake Okanagan

  Moon, Mary

  moose, as mistaken monster

  “Morag,” of Loch Morar, Scotland

  Morgan, Lawrence

  Morgawr

  Mori, Kyoichi

  “Mosqueto,”

  “Ms. Crystal” of Crystal Lake

  Muhammad, John Allen

  Munster, Sebastian

  Murray, Jan

  muskrats

  Mysteries and Monsters of the Sea (Spaeth)

  Mysterious America: The Revised Edition (Coleman)

  Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology (Eberhart)

  Nahuel Huapi

  “Nahuelito,” of Argentina

  Naish, Darren

  Naitaka. See N’ha-a-itk

  Napier, John

  National Academy of Design

  National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals (Whitaker)

  National Geographic Television (NGTV), and Lake Okanagan expedition

  National Museum of Scotland

  Native Americans/Canadians: Beothuk Indians; and “Champ” of Lake Champlain, lack of sightings by; Creek; and “Cressie” of Lake Crescent; horned serpents, in legends of; and Lake Memphremagog; Micmac Indians; myth and reality, lack of importance of distinction; in Nebraska; and N’ha-a-itk, at Lake Okanagan; at Okanagan, Lake in; Okanakane Indians; Oneida; Pueblo Indians; and Silver Lake serpent; Sushwap Indians; Tuscaroras; Zuni Indians

  Natural History (Pliny the Elder)

  Neigher, Alan

  “Nessie.” See Loch Ness monster

  Nessiteras chameleonopteryx. See Loch

  Ness monster

  New Britain

  New Brunswick, Canada

  Newfoundland

  Newport, Vt.

  Newport Bay, Lake Memphremagog

  New York’s Department of

  Environmental Conservation

  New York Times

  New Zealand

  N’ha-a-itk; attacks/killing by; black magic powers; demanding ransom of live sacrifice; fearsome nature of; home; Kel-Oni-Won, as predating; man made to be, as punishment for murder; petroglyphs of,; relationship to Ogopogo; and social control, using fear of; social function of; translation of name

  Nickell, Joe, Fig. 4.2, Fig. 6.2; and “Champ” experiments; maps and drawings by, Figs. 1.1—1.2, Fig. 2.1, Fig. 3.1, Fig. 7.1, Fig. 7.5; mistaken sightings; monster hoaxes; and monster legends; naming of monsters; photographs by, Figs.2.2–2.5, Figs. 2.10–11, Fig. 4.1, Fig. 4.3, Figs. 6.3–6.4, Figs. 7.3–7.4, Fig. 8.1

  Norm’s Bait and Tackle

  octopus

  Ogasawara Islands

  Ogopogo; attacks/ killing by; children’s books about Ogie as; conclusion, after investigation; descriptions; divers investigating, Fig. 7.2; expedition to investigate; experiment to imitate film of; eyewitnesses of; film and video analysis; film and video of; folklore about; home; lack of skeletal evidence of; lack of skeletal evidence of prey of; as log; mistaken for swimming otters, Fig. 7.5; multiple persons sighting of; as N’ha-a-itk (Native American legend); as Ogie, the lovable mascot, Fig. 7.9, Fig. 7.10; origins of name; palindromic nature of name; photographs and video of; reality of, in 1920s; reconciling different incarnations of; relationship to N’ha-a-itk; seaplane search for, Fig. 7.4; sightings; sightings increasing, after song published naming it; sonar, use of in investigation of Fig. 7.3

  Ogopogo (Gaal)

  “Ogopogo: The Funny Fox-Trot, The” (song)

  Ogopogo: The Misunderstood Lake

  Monster (Levers)

  “Ogopups,”

  Ohio River

  Okanagan, Lake; depth ; length; map, Fig. 7.1; rare freezing of; sonar investigation of Fig. 7.3; tourism industry

  Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

  Okanakane Indians

  Olavarria, C.

  Olsson, Peter

  Omaha World-Herald

  Oneida Indians

  Onondaga, Lake

  Ontario, Lake

  Optical Sciences Center, University of

  Arizona

  Ortelius

  Oswego, Lake Erie

  Otter Creek, Lake Champlain

  otters; creating illusion of humps of monsters; creating illusion of sea serpent; swimming in a line, Fig. 7.5

  Oudemans, Antoon Cornelis

  Owen, Elizabeth

  Palmer, Richard

  Papua New Guinea

  paranormal writing, shoddy

  scholarship in

  Parker, Dave

  Parsons, Fred, Fig. 5.4

  Peace, Carolyn

  Peachland, B.C.

  Pear, Nancy

  Pegasus

  Penrod, Bruce

  Penticton, British Columbia, Fig. 7.1

  Perron, Darren

  Perry, N.Y.

  Peterborough, Ontario

  petroglyphs of monsters, Fig. 7.8

  Phillips, Fred H.

  photographs; black and white

  versus color; of “Champ” of

  Lake Champlain, Fig. 2.6; hoaxes; Loch

  Ness monster, Fig. 1.3;

  Mansi photograph of “Champ,” Fig. 2.6; “Memphre” of Lake

  Memphremagog, Fig. 3.2, Fig. 3.3; of Ogopogo; Stuart, Lachlan, of “Nessie,”; underwater photographs, Fig. 1.4

  Piccardi, Luigi

  Pickett, Thomas J.

  Pierce, Sidney

  pinnipeds

  Pioneer Museum, Perry, N.Y.

  Plattsburgh Press-Republican, Fig. 2.9

  Plattsburgh Republican

  plesiosaurs; “Champ” of Lake Champlain, Fig. 2.8; Loch Ness monster; “Memphre” of Lake Memphremagog; “Nahuelito,” of Argentina; Ogopogo

  Pliny the Elder

  Plucknett, Alex

  Plucknett, Dennis


  Porter, Marjorie L.

  Port Henry, N.Y.

  Port Kent, N.Y.

  Power, Jennifer

  prehistoric reptiles

  Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)

  Proof Positive (SciFi Channel program)

  Pueblo Indians

  pulley lines, used for fake monsters, Fig. 6.3

  Pultneyville (N.Y.) Commercial Press

  Punch and Judy

  Puttkamer, Peter von, Fig. 7.8

  Quebec, Canada

  Rabbit’s Arm. See Robert’s Arm

  Newfoundland

  Radford, Benjamin, Fig. 2.2, Fig. 5.4; and “Champ” expedition; and lack of skeletal evidence; and Lake George “monster,”; Mansi photograph analysis, Fig. 2.10; maps and drawings by, Figs.2.7–2.8, Fig. 5.1; and “Memphre,”; and Ogopogo; photographs by, Figs. A1–A5, Fig. 2.10, Fig. 2.13, Fig I.3, Fig. 5.2, Figs. 5.4–5.5, Fig. 6.2, Fig. 7.2, Figs.7.6–7.7, Figs.7.9–7.10

  Ramsey, Charles H.

  Rana catesbeiana

  Rattlesnake Island, Lake Okanagan, Fig. 7.4, Fig. 7.6; physical dangers of

  Raynor film, of “Nessie,”

  Razdan, R.

  reflections, as mistaken monsters

  Rice, Clark

  Rideout, Pierce

  Rines, Robert

  Roberts, Frank D.

  Robert’s Arm, Newfoundland

  Roed, Murray A.

  Roesch, Ben

  Rowland, Bruce, Fig. 2.9

  Royal Air Force’s Joint Air

  Reconnaissance Intelligence

  Center

  Royal Canadian Mounted Police

  divers

  Ruah bed and breakfast, Lake George

  Runnalls Denby (surveyors), Fig. A.6

  Rutkowski, Mark

  Ryan, Hughie

  sacrifices to monsters

  salamanders

  salmon, as producing “monster”

  effects

  Sansom, E. W.

  Sasquatch

  scientific investigations of lake

  monsters: beginnings; versus compilations; late twentieth century; nineteenth century; scientific method, importance of

  SciFi Channel

  Scott, Lloyd

  Scott, Walter

  seals

  sea monsters: compared with lake

  monsters, reports of; evidence of

  Searching for Hidden Animals

  (Mackal)

  seiche (underwater wave)

  seismic activity, causing apparitions of monsters

  Seljordsvatnet, Lake, Norway

  “Selma,” of Lake Seljordsvatnet, Norway

  “Seymour’T’Semoe” of Seymour Lake

  Seymour Lake

  Shiels, Tony “Doc,”

  Shine, Adrian

  Shuker, Karl

  sightings of monsters; in Africa; Asia; “Champ” of Lake Champlain, Fig. 2.3; conclusion, after total investigation; “Cressie” of Lake Crescent; distances viewed from; interviewing eyewitnesses; in Ireland/Scotland/Wales; Kentucky; Lake George “monster,”; at Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; in lakes in Quebec; Lake Tahoe; at Lake Utopia, New Brunswick, Canada; Loch Ness monster; “Memphre” of Lake Memphremagog; modern; multiple person sightings of Ogopogo; in Norway/Sweden; Ogopogo,; in the Pacific; in Poland/Switzerland; publication of; related to publicity; Silver Lake serpent; in South America. See also mistaken sightings

  Silver Bay, Lake George

  Silver Bay Association

  Silver Lake, Fig. 4.1

  Silver Lake serpent; conclusion

  after investigation;

  sightings

  Silver Lake Serpent Festival; hot-air

  balloon, in shape of serpent, Fig.4.2

  Simcoe, Lake

  60 Minutes

  skeletal evidence, lack of; of prey of monsters

  Skeptical Inquirer magazine

  Smith, Richard D.

  Smith, Robin

  Smithsonian Institution

  sonar, use of, Fig.7.3; difficulty of relying on; at Lake Champlain; at Lake Okanagan, Fig.7.3; at Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; at Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, noticing of large animal

  “South Bay Bessie,” of Lake Erie

  South Pond

  Spaeth, Frank

  speed, of swimming otters

  Spelman, Louis

  Spicer, Mr.

  Sproat Lake, Vancouver Island, Fig.7.8

  Spurling, Christian

  Squally Point, Lake Okanagan

  St. Albans, Vt.

  St. Augustine (Florida) Sea Monster

  St. Francois, Lake, Quebec

  St. George, New Brunswick

  St. Johnsbury

  St. Lawrence Seaway

  Stonehouse, Frederick

  Storsjo, Sweden

  Storsjoen, Lake, Sweden

  “Storsjoe,” of Lake Storsjoen, Sweden

  Stowell, Henry

  St. Pierre, Norm, Fig. 2.4

  Strange and Unexplained Happenings

  (Clark and Pear)

  Strange Creatures from Time and Space

  (Keel)

  “Strange Spectacle in Loch Ness,”

  Stuart, Lachlan

  sturgeon

  Sundberg, Jan-Ove

  Superior, Lake

  Sushwap Indians

  Suttles, Wayne

  Sweden

  Tahoe, Lake, Calif.

  tails, of monsters; N’ha-a-itk; Ogopogo, Fig 7.5

  Tappan, Sandi

  Tappan, Walter

  Tasmanian West Coast Monster

  “Teggie,” of Lake Bala, Wales

  Tele, Lake, Africa

  Tennessee

  Teresi, Dick

  “Tessie” of Lake Tahoe

  Thai, Larry

  Thai Film (of Ogopogo); analysis; film artifact, giving mistaken “neck” of monster

  Tianchi Lake, China

  Timbasket

  Toronto, Canada

  tourism industry: Crescent, Lake; of Lake Okanagan; as source of monster stories

  Town Topics

  Travers, Eileen

  tree rind, as mistaken monster sighting

  Trois-Lacs, Lake, Quebec

  trolls

  Tromblee, William “Pete,”

  trout

  Tully, Brock

  Turkey

  Tuscarora Indians

  tusks

  UFOlogy

  underwater cameras

  underwater photographs, Fig 1.4

  underwater searches: Loch Ness monster; sonar evidence.

  See also sonar, use of

  unicorns

  uniqueness, of lake monsters

  United Press International

  University of Arizona

  University of British Columbia

  University of Chicago

  Unsolved Mysteries TV show

  Urner Lake, Switzerland

  “Urnie,” of Lake Urner

  Urquhart Castle

  U.S. Customs label, on Lake George “monster,” Fig. 6.4

  Utopia, Lake

  Vachon, Brian

  Valcour ferry

  Van, Lake, Turkey

  ” Vanna,” of Lake Van, Turkey

  Venise Bay, Lake Champlain

  “Vermonsters,”

  Vermont

  Vermont Life

  Vermont Today

  Vernon, British Columbia, Fig. 7.1

  Verrill, A. E.

  Victoria, Lake, Africa

  videotape: of “Champ” of Lake

  Champlain; of “Igopogo,” of Lake Simcoe; of “Issie,” of Lake Ikedo-ko, Japan; of “Migo,” Lake Dakatua, New Britain; of Ogopogo; of “Teggie,” of Lake Bala, Wales; of “Vanna,” of Lake Van, Turkey. See also individual films of Ogopogo

  Virgin Islands

  Vogel, Charity

  von Muggenthaler, Elizabeth

  Walgren Lake. See Alkali Lake

  Walker, Artemus B.

  Walker Hotel, Perry, N.Y.

>   “Walk Like an Egyptian” (song)

  Walsh, Dave

  Warr, Bruce

  Warr, Evelyn

  Warren, Jill

  Warren, Nick

  Warr’s Service Station, Robert’s Arm

  Newfoundland

  Washington D.C. sniper hunt, as example of eyewitness mistakes

  water-kelpie

  “Water-Monsters of American Aborigines” (Gatschet)

  Watrous, Harry

  “Wenbo,” of Tibet

  Westbank, B.C.

  Wetherell, Marmaduke

  whales; beluga; “Mobsters” as remains of

  Whitaker, John O., Jr.

  Whitehall, N.Y.

  Wickstrom, Lois

  Wilder, Billy

  Williams, H.

  Williams, Lake, Quebec

  Willoughby Lake

  “Willy” of Willoughby Lake

  Wilson, Kelly

  Wilson, Robert, Fig. 1.3

  Wilson, Tony

  wind slicks, as mistaken sightings

  winged dragons

  winged serpents

  Witchell, Nicholas

  With Hope We Can All Find Ogopogo

  (Tully)

  Wong family sketch of Ogopogo

  Wooldridge, Anthony

  Worden, John

  Wyoming County, N.Y.

  Wyoming County Mirror

  Wyoming Times

  Yeti

  York Sunbury Historical Society Museum, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

  Zarzynski, Joseph; and “Champ,”; and Lake Champlain; and overestimation of size; and photographic analysis; and protection of “Champ,”

  Zeegrzynski, Lake, Poland

  zeuglodons

  zoology

  Zug, George

  Zuni Indians

 

 

 


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