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Here’s an “out there” topic: lake monsters.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We spoke to a fellow in Maryland the other day who along with dinner guests insists he saw Chessie and even filmed it — a professional, credible-sounding fellow. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n But…<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Strange claims<\/span> (and dubious ones) — from ancient Indian times to our present day.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Why do so many of these sightings occur where Native Americans conducted pagan rituals?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n And also:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Why do so many of them have\u00a0horns<\/em>, such that there is even an entry dedicated to this precise topic — “Horned Serpents” — in a cryptozoological encyclopedia?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span> “Centuries-old legends from native sources conjure up encounters with giant ‘reptiles’ with great horns,” says Cryptozoology A to Z<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A scholarly journal of folklore has even tackled the subject!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There is the Great Horned Reptile \u00a0of the Ohio River, there is the Horned Snake there also, there is a deep-hole water Horned Snake in Tennessee, there is “Mosqueto,” a great horned serpent that rose from the depth of Lake Ontario (700 B.C.). There is a lake near Hays Springs, Nebraska, and a brute here also. Dreadful roars, Horrid smell.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “From Alaska to New Mexico<\/span> the belief in a horned serpent-shaped water beast of enormous dimensions is widespread,” wrote Claude Gagnon and Michel Meurger in\u00a0Lake Monster Traditions<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Duck-billed dinosaurs — perhaps finding their way from ocean to lake via undiscovered tunnels (a favorite theory at Loch Ness)?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One of history’s most famous occultists owned a home there, at Loch Ness, and was said to raise the “monster.”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The same reports come from places in Africa — where magic is also practiced.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There is a horned serpent in the Harry Potter series.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Why horns?<\/span> Why often less like a plesiosaur than a dragon (see Revelation)<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There is the monster, in North Dakota, of Devil’s Lake. “Suddenly the earth trembled as the lake began to churn and boil. Out of the water rose a huge monster with short legs and saucer-like eyes that flashed like copper fire,” is one description of what Indian legend told. (Also, in this vicinity, “ghosts.”)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One can be excused for noting the dark… spiritual… connotations.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Food for thought, in a world with many mysterious components.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here’s an “out there” topic: lake monsters. You know, “Nessie” at Loch Ness, “Champie” in Lake Champlain, even “Chessie” in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[949,946,947,945,948],"class_list":{"0":"post-8323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-champie","8":"tag-lake-monsters","9":"tag-loch-ness","10":"tag-monsters","11":"tag-nessie","12":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/5e\/Hoaxed_photo_of_the_Loch_Ness_monster.jpg\/230px-Hoaxed_photo_of_the_Loch_Ness_monster.jpg\")
You know, “Nessie” at Loch Ness, “Champie” in Lake Champlain, even “Chessie” in the Chesapeake. A bit of beach talk.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cryptoclidus](\"https:\/\/vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net\/reptiles\/images\/4\/4f\/Cryptoclidus_profile.png\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/250?cb=20130621201708\")
While “cryptozoologists,” as they call themselves, like to believe in undiscovered specimens — relict aquatic dinosaurs, perhaps a plesiosaur — the question is twofold:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/93\/Snakerock.jpg\/250px-Snakerock.jpg\")
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Sulfur?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/michael.jpg\")
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