There are many
reported lake monsters around the world. Mysterious creatures in the water have
been seen in Europe and North America. The most famous is the Loch Ness Monster
in Scotland.
These creatures are described as being very large with a long neck and small head. They have fins on their sides. Eye witness descriptions say they are 20 to 30 feet long, greyish or dark tan in color. They resemble a plesiosaur, which was an extinct gigantic reptile that lived in water millions of years ago. One theory is that lake monsters are plesiosaurs left over from the age of the dinosaurs. The mysterious creatures have also been seen on land, giving to the possibility that they could be some kind of amphibian.
If lake monsters are descendants of plesiosaurs, could large reptiles survive in the colder climates of Europe and
North America. There are snakes that live in Scandinavia and some species of
lizards are living in Canada. One theory is that some dinosaurs could have been
warm blooded. It is unknown if plesiosaurs were warm or cold blooded reptiles.
But their fossils have been found in the British Isles, on the coast of the North Sea.
This is the same part of the world as the lochs in Scotland. So it is
certainly possible that plesiosaurs and lake monsters could survive in the
colder climates where they are reported to have been seen.Loch Ness is not the only place in Scotland that has a giant aquatic beast. There is also Loch Morar, home to Morag, another creature of a deep loch. And another one in Loch Maree in Scotland. Many pictures and videos have been taken of Nessie in Loch Ness.
The Scottish have legends about kelpies or water horse, dating back hundreds of years. They are similar in description to the lake monsters of modern times.
Elsewhere in Europe, In Sweden, Lake
Storsjon has a lake monster. Another one in Norway in Seljord. In Russia in
Lake Brosno there is another mysterious dragon. And in the Lakes of Killarney of Ireland there is a lake monster.
There are other lake reptiles that live
in Canada. In Newfoundland and Labrador in Crescent Lake there is a beast
called Cressie.
And there are numerous lake monsters
reported in the United States;
In Minnesota in
Lake Pepin there is a lake monster reported.
Lake Champlain
borders New York State, Vermont and Quebec, Canada. The lake is home to Champ,
a large reptile similar to the creatures
in Scotland.It is not described as looking like other Lake monsters. Chessie is more like a leviathan. It probably came from the ocean.
In Montana there
is another giant serpent in Flathead Lake.
And Off the
Pacific shore of the north west U.S. and Canada is the Caddy or Cadborosasaurus. It is another giant sea serpent with a large head.
The Norse Theory:
Is it a coincidence that many of the
places where lake monsters appear, are some of the
same places that the Norsemen visited in the middle ages? The Norse
homeland in Scandinavia which includes Sweden and Norway, there are lake
monsters. They invaded Scotland and had stories about dragons in the northern
British Isles. The Norse also raided Ireland and settled in Russia, where there
are more mysterious creatures in the water. The Norse settled Iceland and
Greenland. There was a similar type monster videotaped in the water in Iceland.
The Norse had a settlement in
Newfoundland, Canada. There is a reported Lake beast there. And there is
evidence that the Norsemen made it to the northern United States in Minnesota,
where there is another monster in the lake. Could the Norse have brought or
spread dragon eggs to the different lands they explored?
References:
Information obtained from Wikipedia.org, under the Creative Commons
Attribution,
Sharealike license.
Wilipedia.org articles;
Lake Monster, Plesiosaurs, Champ, Chessie, Ogopogo, Cadborosaurus.
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