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Dear friends who are into various mysteries around the world,

The video above mentions 7 different lakes around the world which reportedly have sea creatures inhabiting them. Imagine looking at a calm lake knowing that there’s a whole different world down below the still surface…

It’s a human habit to think that we know everything… but do we really??

Here is more information about each of the 7 lakes… where the lakes are, what lives in the deep, dark waters etc… Do take a look… it’s very interesting. I have posted some information and videos for you to ponder, watch and enjoy. I have always enjoyed this subject since very young.

I personally like this blog post very much. I love mysteries such as lake monsters, ufo’s, bigfoots, etc….

Take a look, some of the footage is very startling and will make you re-think your previous conclusions…

Tsem Rinpoche

1. Loch Ness (Scotland)

The Loch Ness is probably one of the most famous lakes in the world. It is located in the Scottish Highlands (in Scotland), with the lake’s surface at 15.8m above sea-level. The deepest point of the Loch Ness is about 230m deep, and the lake is mostly fresh water.

Loch Ness is a tectonic lake which resulted from tremors that opened up a crack in the Earth’s crust about 500 million years ago! During the Ice Age, about 10,000-12,000 years ago, this lake was covered with 4,000 feet of ice, and now it’s a beautiful lake where thousands of tourists visit every year for one main reason…

Loch Ness has been made famous by the legendary water creature, affectionately known as Nessie aka the “Loch Ness Monster”.

Nessie was apparently spotted for the first time on 2^nd of May 1933 by Alex Campbell. Since then, many people have seen the reportedly 14m long creature. There have been many expeditions carried out to find Nessie, such as the Sir Edward Mountain Expedition, Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau, Robert Rines studies etc etc… so far, researchers and scientists have found an unidentifiable large moving object which moves at around 19km/h and with underwater echoes as great as a 3m pilot whale. The moving object would quickly move out of sonar range and then disappear…

In Search of the Lochness Monster, Part 1

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In Search of the Lochness Monster, Part 2

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In Search of the Lochness Monster, Part 3

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2. Lake Champlain (United States)

Lake Champlain is a natural, fresh water lake that is located in the states of Vermont and New York, America. This lake’s surface area is about 1,269 km sq. and has a maximum depth of 120m.

The lake has the oldest living reef, where the coral dates back to the Ordovician Period… about 480 million years ago! There are also many old fossils that have been found here, dating back to the Paleozoic Era… more than 300 million years ago. Vermont once being completely covered in water, the changing landscape of the Earth saw the last glacier melting about 12,500 years ago, and the Champlain Valley rising about 10,000 years ago.

Many of the animals that once inhabited the inland sea are now in the North Atlantic and vice versa. Who knows, maybe an undiscovered underwater creature that once swum in the abyss of the North Atlantic, is now trapped in Lake Champlain…

“Champ” is what the people call the 15ft long sea creature. There are records of echolocation in Lake Champlain. Echolocation is the biological sonar used by several animals… these are signals that whales and dolphins are known to use – there are no whales and dolphins in Lake Champlain, so what’s producing the echolocation…?

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3. Lake Van (Turkey)

Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey. Unlike Lake Champlain and Loch Ness which are freshwater lakes, this lake is a saline and soda lake. It receives water from small streams in the surrounding mountains but due to an ancient volcanic eruption, it is now essentially “trapped” and has no outlet.

Lake Van has a surface area of 3,755 km sq. and lies at about 1,640m above sea level. Its maximum depth is approx. 150m deep, and because of the strong alkalinity (pH9.7-9.8), not many living beings inhabit Lake Van.  There is only one type of fish known to live in the lake, along with different types of plankton.

There have been 1,000 over people claiming to have seen a large creature in Lake Van, called the Lake Van Monster. The very first sighting was in 1995, and eye witnesses claim that it’s around 15m in length with humps along its back…

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4. Lake Okanagan (Canada)

Before the Loch Ness monster came to the public’s attention, there was Ogopogo.

Ogopogo is the resident water creature in Lake Okanagan, in Canada. The lake has a surface area of 351 km² and is located in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. The lake waters lead to the Columbia River basin, which made it ideal for many to transport both people and goods in the past.

With a maximum depth of 232m, the lake is home to many different types of fish… and a serpent-like creature named the Ogopogo.

It is reported that the Ogopogo, is about 1-2 feet in diameter and 15-20 feet in length.

In 1914, a group of Indians of the Nicola Valley and Westbank found a 5-feet long and 400 pound blue-grey creature. They believe in the existence of a mammalian creature calling it N’ha-a-tik, Chinook or great-beast-on-the-lake.

Footprints have even been found by a researcher named Dr Mackal… some of the footprints had three toes and some with eight!

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5. Lake Memphremagog (United States/Canada)

Lake Memphremagog is a lake that is located between Vermont (United States) and Quebec (Canada). It has a surface area of 1,779km sq. and is about 351m deep. There are 20 islands and over the years, efforts have been made to reduce lake pollution to improve the water quality. After all the testing, the reasons behind the excessive nitrogen and phosphorus are still unknown.

Since 1816, there have been many sightings of a ‘sea serpent’ named Memphre. The local Indians, who inhabited the land surrounding the lake, warned the first white settlers not to swim in the lake citing a sea serpent.

There are many references to Memphre in ancient Indian legends, fables, poems and songs… referring to it as a ‘dark monster’.

They saw a monster dark and grim
Coming with coiling surge and swim,
With lifted head and tusk and horn,
Fierce as the spirit in Hades born.

(Bullock, 1926 p. 71)

This is a good video on the existence of Memphre. It has eye-witnesses accounts, and although the documentary is in French (as it was produced in Quebec) do watch it anyways as it’s very interesting…

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6. Lake Nahuel Huapi (Argentina)

Nahuel Huapi Lake is located at the foot of the Patagonian mountains in Argentina. With a surface of 646 km² and maximum depth of 438m, this lake’s depression was carved out along fault lines and consists of several glacial valleys.

Nahuel Huapi is connected to many other lakes and holds a number of islands. The waters are home to many different types of fishes, and although the lake’s surface is 770m above sea level and far from the ocean, it is home to some strictly marine birds, such as the Kelp Gull and Blue Eyed Cormorant.

The local aborigines believe in a legendary creature called the Nahuelito. It is estimated that the creature is 15 to 150 feet in length and many people have sighted the giant water snake-like creature with humps and fish-like fins, or a creature with a swan-like neck and a snake’s head.

The Patagonian Indians have long believed in a huge creature that dwells in the lake; however, the majority of the public have only known about the creature since the early 1920s.

This video shows how big and beautiful Lake Nahuel Huapi is…

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This video is actual footage of a Nahuelito sighting

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7. Lake Seljordsvatnet (Norway)

In Norway, lives Selma the resident lake monster in Lake Seljordsvatnet.

Lake Seljordsvatnet is located in Telmark and is a 12 mile long and 15 mile wide lake with icy, cold waters. It was formed by melted glaciers during the last Ice Age and is currently in between mountains that reach a height of 1,500m. The maximum depth of the lake is about 138m deep.

Selma was first spotted in 1750, where a large reptilian creature was reported to be circulating the region. There have only been 500 eyewitness reports of the apparent 30-45 foot serpent-like creature. Some have said that it has humps on its back, with black skin and a crocodile-like head.

The latest sighting was in 2001, where a father and son from Oslo came face-to-face with Selma whilst they were on the beach.

This contraption is called the COMET (Co-Operative Monster Eel Trap). It is 18 feet long, 15 feet in circumference and has a cone-like shape towards the entrance of the trap. Made by InnFsik AS at HomnesIt, it was used by GUST (Global Underwater Search Team) to try and catch Selma.

This is an actual photo taken in 2005 via handphone by Einar Johannes Sadnes. He was initially reluctant to share it as he thought no one would believe him. It was taken while he was fishing...

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Let me know below in the comments which ONE YOU LIKED THE BEST OR WHICH ONE YOU FOUND CONVINCING. Do you believe in these creatures? Do you believe the scientific community will deny them or why would they? What is your theory why the scientific community will deny their existence after hundreds of thousands of eye-witnesses over centuries. In a court of law, a sentence may be passed because of eye-witness testimony. So why would the eye witnesses of sound standing not be believed in this case???

Let me know what you think and your conclusions please. I am interested to know.

TR

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