#Champ the Lake Champlain Monster

[tomoleary]

Stephen R. Bissette "Champ, the Lake Champlain Monster" Preliminaries

Source, source

Bissette: “This was the first-ever rough I did for the VT MONSTER GUIDE book proposal; again, it's the Lake Champlain Monster of my home state, affectionately known hereabouts as Champ. This was one of a number of pieces I did on cardboard; posted/sold on MYRANT January 2009.”

Published cover:

[shadyufo]

Cryptids & Creatures of Folklore Drawtober Day 23 — Champ

For hundreds of years there have been reports of a mysterious creature lurking in the depths of Lake Champlain. The Iroquois and Mohawk people were the first to tell tales of encountering this beast. Over the years, there have been over 300 reported sightings of the creature which came to be nicknamed Champ. P. T. Barnum even offered a reward of $50,000 for the capture of Champ but it was never claimed.

In 1977, a woman named Sandra Mansi captured a photograph of Champ which appears to show a long-necked, plesiosaur-like creature in the water. However, some believe the figure is misidentified driftwood.

[hauntedvermont]

BREAKING: Champ on Sonar?!

Katy Elizabeth known from her Champ Search, recently was messaged by Scott Thurber. He was out fishing within a “ball of bait” area, and happened to glance over at his Garmin, and quickly took a screen shot that captured this incredible image that looks like the shape and form. Of what New Yorkers and Vermonters would identify, as Champ the Lake Champlain Sea Serpent. Katy will be conducting an…

[contentabnormal]

This week on Content Abnormal we present Vanessa Brown and John Dehner in Suspense's "The Vanishing Lady"!

[lindaseccaspina]

Have You Heard About Champ? --Monster of Lake Champlain --with Clippings 1873-1929

In 2018 the woman who took the iconic photo of “Champ” died. Sandra Mansi lost her battle with cancer when she was 74. On Tuesday afternoon, July 5, 1977, Sandra Mansi of Bristol, Connecticut, knelt on the shores of Lake Champlain somewhere between St. Albans, Vermont, andthe Canadian border, and snapped what is widely touted as the best lake monster photograph ever taken. To the best of anyone’s…

[raincoyoteart]

The Lake Champlain Monster

[shortterm-emory]

Inktober Daily Cryptid #25: Champ (aka The Lake Champlain Monster)

[witchw0lf]

Was reading about cryptids and wanted to draw something inspired by Champ!

[sweetbabysquids]

This isn’t exactly true though! While I’m not sure about loch monsters specifically, there are stories of lake monsters in North America that date from before European settlement. In the 18th century native tribes like the Abenakis warned French settlers of Gitaskog, a water monster we now call Champ in Lake Champlain.

The funniest thing about all the speculation regarding the origins of the Bigfoot myth is that we know where it came from. It was a prank carried out by a guy named Ray Wallace who vandalised a couple of logging camps in California in 1958 while wearing fake feet to conceal his identity. They literally found his collection of giant wooden feet in his basement after he died in 2002, his involvement has been corroborated by multiple accomplices, and the timing of the incidents precisely lines up with when interest in Bigfoot exploded in American popular culture. We've known all this for twenty years, and everybody just quietly ignores it because it's no fun, I guess.

[prof-marvolius]

Críptido del día: Champlain Lake Monster, "Champ" (Monstruo del lago Champlain)

Descripción: El primer avistamiento reportado por los medios se produjo en 1883 cuando el sheriff Nathan H. Mooney dijo que había visto una "... gigantesca serpiente de agua a unos 45 metros"​ de donde él estaba en la orilla. Él afirmó que estaba tan cerca que podía ver "manchas blancas redondas dentro de su boca" y que "la criatura parecía tener unos 7 a 9 metros de largo". El avistamiento de Mooney llevó a muchos testigos oculares ir hacia adelante con sus propios relatos de avistamientos de "Champ".

[chelledoggo]

jumping on the "regional Miku" bandwagon a bit late, but here's "Champlain Valley/Plattsburgh NY Miku" 🌲

the plushie she's holding is of Champ (AKA "Champy") the legendary lake monster said to live in Lake Champlain.

weirdly specific? maybe. but the idea came to me today and i couldn't just let it be an idea.

[sporeclan]

Cinnamonpaw sat still in his kittypet bed, eyes dry and unclosing. The jingle of his stupid collar and the thought of his former clan kept him up. What would they do if he came home and recognized no one? What if they knew him and called him Cinnamonpaw, only to disappoint them by telling them his name is now Mothie? What if his family was dead? What if all of his clan mates were-

The sound of shuffling and steps distracted him from his swirl of thoughts. He got up from the moss- kittypet bed, and cocked his head outside of the twoleg door. The other kittypets that live with him swarmed over... something? Cinnamon- no, Mothie, prayed it wasn't a clanmate. A small, golden-yellow cat was hunched over and trembling, wearing a small wool cloth that the twolegs gave him when he first arrived. Champ, the large, black rosette tabby she-cat that lived with him, kept her distance from the new cat, seemingly trying to make them comfortable. Suddenly-

-'Who's that?' -The cat asked, pointing at him.

-'That's Mothie, he's kind of boring and a bit neurotic and tends to ignore us, but he's pretty cool once you get to know him. Also he came from a "clan", thing? I don't actually know what it is but-'

-'I lived near one! It was called... umm.. Sporeclan or something-'

Sporeclan?! Cinnamonpaw jumped, eyes widened.

-'How- who- what-' He kept stammering.

-'Easy there, pal. You wouldn't want to scare the newbie, do ya'?' -Nessie, the slick furred, old, gray ticked tom told him, chuckling. Cinnamo- Mothie's eyes darted across the room.

-'Do.. you know Mousegrove? Or-or Spottedpaw, or Mushroompaw, or... Cliffpaw?' Mothie's eyes started to tear up thinking about his family.

-'I have heard about... Spottedfrost and uh... Cliffthicket i think was their name?' -The golden-yellow cat said with uncertainty in their words.

They graduated! Cinnamonpaw grinned, eyes closed, letting a tear fall down his cheek. ...What about Mushroompaw?

-'What about Mushroompaw..?'

-'I don't know much about them, like i said, i lived near them, not with them... Anyway, my name's Yucca- i mean.. uh... Big Paws.'

Oh. His small smile washed away. I guess she hasn't graduated yet? Or she's... she's...

-'Well.. hi Big Paws. Let Champ show you round. I'm going back to my bed.' -Cinnamonpaw murmured, before slinking back inside his den- room.

He could have sworn he heard Champ say he's boring, however, he couldn't care less about what she said. A different thought invaded his mind, and he couldn't let go of it.

What was his mentor's name?

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Hiii there!! Hope you enjoyed this thing (i sound like a youtuber). I named the other house cats after cryptids! Cinnamonpaw/Mothie is named after Mothman, Champ is named after the Lake Champlain Monster, Nessie is named after the Loch Ness Monster and Yucca/Big Paws is named after Bigfoot!

This is more of a "Cinnamonpaw forgets lots of shit and may or may not have depression" and a little bit of "Hehe silly Pointless Pelt Descriptions™! (<- My worst enemy)" I just wanted yall to know what the cats look like so you could have some ideas about what they look like

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AUUUHGHHHGGG I LOVE THIS SO MUCH,, MY POOR LITTLE GUYYYY </3</3</3 he deserves the world.............

[labete-du-gevaudan]

This image of Champ, the Lake Champlain Monster comes from The Illustrated Police News. This particular edition was published on August 7, 1886.

The caption reads: “He is summering at Lake Champlain; this season - The sea serpent appears to George Atwood and his comrade, near Alburgh Bridge, VT.”

[monsieurenjlolras]

If you ever go to Vermont, you might hear someone mention Champ, and if you ask them what Champ is they will explain that he is a lake monster that lives in Lake Champlain. SOME PEOPLE might explain this by saying that he is "the Vermont version of the Loch Ness Monster." These people are WRONG and they are perpetuating LIES. The first possible sighting of a Creature in Loch Ness was in 1871 CE (the 565 CE creature sighting was in a river, NOT Loch Ness). Champ was first sighted 1609 CE. THE LOCH NESS MONSTER IS SCOTLAND'S VERSION OF CHAMP.

[shapeshiftersvt]

Chaymp.

Listen. Vermont is small. The mountains are stubby, the people are sparsely settled, the state itself can be crossed in an afternoon. Our field of view is short; there's always a mountain or six lifting up out of the horizon to block the way, and though they won't have the height of the Rockies they sure will keep you from seeing the next twenty miles.

Travel and the scenery will change every thirty minutes, a new mountain ridge visible over the next, and the next, and the next. The landscape comes in layers, each a little grey-greener and foggier than the one before. When the clouds gather at the base of the mountains, the dark ridges that emerge look like dragons floating through the mist.

I've lived on flat land. I've lived by the seashore. I've gone out my front door and seen the earth or the ocean stretch forth, seen the sky come down to meet it at an impossibly far-distant line. It's awful. Sorry. I know there's poetry about that, I know it inspires probably more people than it puts off. But I'm cozy up here, with my little gently-rolled Appalachians hemming me in on all sides.

And Lake Champlain is big! It's got that oceanic quality, where you can't always see the other side of it and there are deep currents running beneath. Of course there's a sea serpent in that lake, a monster, a swimming dragon as thick as a barrel and as long as a city bus. Plenty of folks have seen it. It hit me when I got there: we need to see it. We need that dragon's back layer, that extra ridge, that mystery for more mysteries to hide behind. You get used to the mountains up here, the way they halt the eye even when they're shrouded in mist. It feels bad to be able to see all the way clear to New York.

That's not to say Champ isn't actually there. It's just to say that Vermonters as a people are probably predisposed to look for it.

[3ofpents]

100 Palettes Challenge // Palette #16 // Scenic Lake Champlain

Today's palette is from a magazine illustration published in 1915.

Welcome to my impromptu series of vaguely threatening travel posters!

I had so much fun with the pine barrens poster that I decided to keep playing around with it, this time in my current home state.

Welcome to Burlington, Vermont, bordering Lake Champlain, home of Champ the lake monster!

I don't actually know that much about Champ, except that I think the theories around what Champ is and how they ended up in a lake are roughly similar to the theories around Nessie. I did have to double-check about giving them ears. I second-guessed myself because I'm more familiar with photos of Nessie, and later on I did find a photo of Champ that also didn't have ears. But there are a couple of sculptures of Champ that I saw have ears so I kept them.

The thing that really differentiates Champ from Nessie, though, I believe, is the double-hump. All of the sculptures have a really pronounced double-hump. Though of course now that I'm double-checking that I see it actually goes the other way, with the smaller hump in the front.

Ah well. I at least learned from the pine barrens poster and designed it from the start in a high resolution, then shrunk it down for posting. So I'll flip it on the big one.

Do you have a local cryptid, urban legend, or mystery spot? I love learning about new cryptids, especially the ones few people know about.