Champ (cryptozoology)

Champ is the name of a supposedly living in the American- Canadian Lake Champlain sea monster or cryptids.

Description

Sightings

The first testified sighting of several meters large animal that lives in the lake, from the year 1609. Since then, an estimated 300 sightings were reported. In some cases it was " Champ " as a big catfish out.

Some of the major sightings:

Prehistory of the Lake

Geologists such as Steven Bright, according to the area of ​​Lake Champlain once covered a larger sea waters, the so-called sea of ​​Champlain. It is said to have existed before about 11000-9000 years, about 2,000 to 2,500 years. After Ellen Marsden, a biologist at the University of Vermont, it has been the former marine animals possible to enter the present lake and were cut off upon the disappearance of the marine connection in the Lake Champlain from the sea. Either they adapted themselves to the fresh water on or died. Marine fish such as the sturgeon and Atlantic salmon are due to Lake Champlain.

Legends of the Native

The Iroquois and the Abenaki living on the banks of the lake and hear about the legend of such a sea monster. The Abenaki call him Tatoskok. Another Indian name is of the essence Chaousarou.

Conservation

Champ was in 1982 set by the House of Representatives of Vermont and the New York Senate on the list of endangered species, this would an unknown animal, which is found in Lake Champlain, now fall under the protection of species.