#lake champlain

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Yesterday I was in a debate tournament in VT in real life. Last night I dreamed by best friend had met me there, and that we sat and talked on a bench with a beautiful view of Lake Champlain. I don’t remember a word we said, but I remember feeling so, so happy to see them. 

[blurrilines]

Shout out to @wearewatcher 👻🪡

Worked on this while watching the new Mystery Files, always nice to see Champ 🌊

[claypotz]

I paused during today’s video 😭

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[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.

[eopederson]

Lake Champlain in autumn, Charlotte, Vermont, 2023.

[thethirdman8]

Glorious Lake Champlain this morning.. Blue on blue 💙 baby.

[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.

[duvalpete]

Lake Champlain. circa 2000.

[ltwilliammowett]

China cup and saucer from an early 19th century

The set commemorating the American naval victory on Lake Chaplain in 1814, probably showing the HMS 'Confiance' and the American vessel 'Vermont' (1808), unsigned, American, c.1825

[flintandpyrite]

Seven seconds of Lake Champlain. Sadly no sign of Champy.

[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…

[photofinder]

Cryptid of the Week: Champ

Champ is the Lake Monster said to live in New York and Vermont's Lake Champlain. It is, essentially, the United States' version of the Loch Ness Monster.

Similar to the Loch Ness Monster, there are differing stories on how big it is and what, exactly, it looks like. One notable account put it at 187 feet, with three teeth and red around the neck; another put it around 30 feet with white spots in the mouth.

The Mansi Photograph is one of the most famous supposed photos of Champ:

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Lake Champlain - John Frederick Kensett // Stick Season - Noah Kahan

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Lake Champlain Ferry, Essex NY to Chatlotte VT, 2023

[swforester]

The boathouse on Burlington Bay.

Burlington VT 4/7/24