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Bord, Janet

Bowen, Dafydd

Bragg, Russell

breeding, lack of evidence of multiple monsters for

Brewer, Jacqueline

Brimblecombe, W. H.

Bristol, Vt.

British Broadcasting Corporation

(BBC), Loch Ness monster

sponsored search

British Columbia; lakes with

monsters.
See also
Ogopogo;

Okanagan, Lake

British Columbia Scientific

Cryptozoology Club

Brown, Arch

Brunnen, Switzerland

Buckland, Frank

Buffalo Commercial

Bull, John

bullfrog, giant,
Fig. 8.1

Bulwagga Bay, Lake Champlain

Burchfiel, Kurt

Burlington, Vt.

Burlington Free Press

Burton, Andrew

Burton, Helen Brown

Button Bay State Park

Caledonian

cameleopards
,
Fig I.2

Cameroon

Campbell, Alexander

Canadian Conservation Institute

“Capt. Crum,”

Cartwright Bay, Lake Ontario

Cedergren, Magnus

centaurs

cereology

cetaceans.
See also
whales

Chad

Champ: Beyond the Legend
(Zarzynski)

Champ Day celebration

Champlain, Lake; age of; beluga whales possibly in; biosonar heard in; expedition to; geology of; heavily wooded shore of,
Fig. 2.11
; hydrography of; map of,
Fig. 2.1
;
“Narrows, The,”
; and seiche (underwater wave); shallowness of parts of; sturgeon in; tourism industry; as Vermont's largest lake

Champlain, Samuel de

Champlain Bridge

“Champ” of Lake Champlain,; babies; conclusions, after investigation; and culture of area; deafness of Mansi's sighting of; description; Discovery Channel documentary of (2003); distances viewed from; expedition to investigate,
Fig. 2.2
,
Fig 2.10
,
Fig. 2.11
; feeding fish, as mistaken sighting of; horns and antlers of; Indian lore associated with; lack of photographs after Mansi photo; lack of skeletal evidence of; merchandising from; misreporting about; mistaken sightings; numbers of sightings over time; photographs,
Fig. 2.5
; as plesiosaur,
Fig. 2.8
,; recent sightings and theories; sightings,
Fig. 2.3
; spike in sightings, after publication of Mansi photograph; sturgeon, as mistakes for; supposed capturing and eating of; tracing from enlargement of Mansi photograph,
Fig. 2.7
; videotape of, .
See also
Mansi photograph of “Champ”

Champ Quest

Champ Quest: The Ultimate Search

(Hall)

Champ sighting signboard,
Fig. 2.5
.

Chaplin, Ken

Chaplin video, of Ogopogo

Chicago Times

Chilean blob

China

Chinese Nessie

Chorvinski, Mark

Citro, Joseph A.

Clark, Cumberland

Clark, Jerome

Clayton, Jerry

Coleman, Fred B.

Coleman, Loren; and “Champ,”; and Mansi photograph of “Champ,”; and Ogopogo

“Coleman frog,”
Fig. 8.1
; authenticity of

Collier's Encyclopedia

Collins, Michael J.

Collins, Rita

Collins Cabins, Port Henry, N.Y.

Colombo, John Robert

Columba, St.

Columbus, Christopher

Congo

Conraua goliath

Cosmographia Universalis
(Munster)

Costello, Peter,

Crane, E. R

Creek Indians

Crescent, Lake,
Figs. 5.1
–
5.2
,
Figs.
5.4
–
5.5

Crescent Elementary School

“Cressie” of Lake Crescent,
Fig. 5.2
,
Fig. 5.5
, conclusion, after investigation; description,
Fig. 5.3
; as giant eel; lack of photographs of; lack of skeletal evidence of; sightings,
Fig. 5.4

Cressie's Castle

crocodiles

crop circles

Crown Point, N.Y.

Crum, Captain

cryptids

cryptozoologists; and “Igopogo,” of Lake Simcoe; and Mansi photograph of “Champ,”; and Ogopogo cryptozoology; importance of evidence in

Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Lake Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature
(Coleman)

Crystal Lake

cursed places

Curtis, G. Smith

Cusick, David

Daegling, Dave

Daily Mail

Daily News

Daily Planet
(Discovery Canada TV program)

Dakatua, Lake, New Britain

Dash, Mike

Davis, Mr. (witness of Lake George “monster”)

deer, swimming

Deffenbacher, K.

DeMara, Paul

DeMara Video
(of Ogopogo)

Department of Environmental

Conservation

Department of Oceanography, University of British Columbia

“Devil's Hole” cave, Niagara Falls

dinosaur

Dinsdale, Tim

Discover
magazine

Discovery Canada TV

Discovery Channel

divers investigating monsters,
Fig. 7.2

djinn

Dockstader, Noel

dolphins

Douglass, Harry S.

dragons; winged dragons

driftwood; as

“Champ,”
Fig. 2.9
,
Fig. 2.13
; hydrographic explanation of driftwood rising and falling, .
See also
logs, as mistaken monsters

ducks

Dungeon, The, Bonavista, Newfoundland,
Fig. 7.7

ears

Eberhart, George M.

eels

Ellis, Bill

Encyclopedia Britannica

England

Enlightenment

Erie, Lake

Ethiopia

evidence, of lake monsters; breeding, lack of
multiple monsters for; historical evidence; importance of, for cryptozoologists; from Indian lore; lack of, for “Champ,”; lack of, for “Cressie,” lack of, for Loch Ness monster; lack of, for Ogopogo; lack of, for “Selma,”; lack of skeletal; Mansi photograph of “Champ,” lack of in; petroglyphs; powder horn with dragon, of “Champ,”; sonar evidence; sonar evidence of “Champ,”.
See also
eyewitness testimony;
individual films/videos
', photographs; scientific investigations of lake monsters; sightings of monsters; videotape

expectant attention

extinct animals

extraterrestrials

eyewitness testimony; confidence, as element of; errors of; fallibility of; “file drawer effect,”; importance of details given by; interviewing eyewitnesses; and overestimation of size; psychological literature about.
See also
mistaken sightings; sightings of monsters

fairies

Fate
magazine

Fauna Communications Research

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), video specialist

Ferrand, John, Jr.

ferries: across Lake Champlain; across Lake Okanagan

Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, The
(Coleman)

Field Guide to North American

Monsters
(Blackman)

Fielding, Todd

“file drawer effect

film artifact, giving mistaken “neck” of monster

fins; on “Champ,”; on “Cressie,”; on Lake George “monster,”
Fig. 6.4
; on Loch Ness Monster; on “Storsjoe,” of Lake Storsjoen, Sweden

fish, as mistaken sighting

flippers,
Fig. 1.4

Folden, Arthur

Folden Film
(of Ogopogo); analysis; distances viewed from,
Fig. A.6
;
experiment to emulate,
Fig. A.6

folklore; about Ogopogo; creatures of; Indian lore

Forrest, Tom

Fort Cassin, Lake Champlain

Fortean Times

fossils, hoaxes of

Foster, Peter

Fredericks, Grant

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Frieden, B. Roy

Fromm, Garfield

Furlow, Herbert M.

Gaal, Arlene; and depth of Lake Okanagan; and Ogopogo legends; and Ogopogo sighting analysis; and Ogopogo sightings

Gagnon, Claude

Ganassin, Celeste

Ganoidei fish

garfish

Gatschet, Albert S.

Gaudet, Sam

geese

genies

Genoni, Tom

“Gentle Memphrie” (song)

George, Lake

Gesner, Conrad

giant eels

giant squid,
Fig. I.3

Gillett, Truman S.

giraffes,
Fig. I.2

“globsters,”

Godin, Alfred J.

Gould, Rupert T.
Fig. 7.5

Grand Okanagan Lakefront Resort

Grant, John

Gray, Hugh

Great Glen fault

Great Lakes

Great Sea Serpent, The
(Oudemans)

Green, Susan

Greenwell, J. Richard

Grishkot, Joann

Grishkot, Walter,
Fig. 6.1

Guinness Book of Records, The

Haggett, Robert

Hague Bay, N.Y.

Hague Community Center

Hague-on-Lake, Lake George

Hall, Dennis Jay

harpies

Hay Springs, Nebr.

Henry, Ginger

Hero Island, Lake Champlain

Herrington Lake, Kentucky

Hewlett, Ray

Himalayas

hippogriff

hippopotamus, as hoax for monster

Histoire dune bonne bouffel

Historia Animalium
(Gesner)

History of Northwestern New York

hoaxes; bellows

allegedly used for Silver Lake

serpent hoax,
Fig. 4.3
; fake photos; fossils; hippopotamus, as hoax for monster; “Kingstie,” Lake Ontario; Lake George “monster,”; Loch Ness monster,
Fig. I.3
; Mansi photograph of “Champ,” possibility of; monster teeth; newspaper hoaxes; publicity stunts; Silver Lake serpent,
Fig. 4.3
; “Urnie,” of Lake Urner

Hoggart, Simon

Hog Island, Lake Champlain

Hollowell, Laura

horned reptiles: and aboriginal rites; Alkali Lake monster; horned
serpents; horned snake; killing people/livestock; in Lake Van, Turkey; stench of; widespread tradition of, in the West

horns

“Humbug” Islands, Lake Erie

humps; “Champ” of Lake Champlain; Loch Ness monster; as multiple fish/otters; Ogopogo

hunting accident, as example of eyewitness mistakes

Hutchinson, Mike

Huyghe, Patrick

hydrography

Iceland

“Igopogo,” of Lake Simcoe;

description

Ikedo-ko, Lake, Japan

In Search of Lake Monsters
(Costello)

In Search of Ogopogo
(Gaal)

“Interim Report” (Frieden)

International Dracontology Society of

Lake Memphremagog

International Society of

Cryptozoology

Inverness Courier

Ireland

Island Harbour House, Lake George

“Issie,” of Lake Ikedo-ko, Japan

Jason and the Argonauts

Jewett, Uriah

“John” (deckhand on Lake Champlain ferry)

Johnson, J. A.

fournal of American Folklore

Kagoshima, Japan

Kalamalka Hotel, B.C.

Katonak, Tom

Keel, John A.

Kellogg, Phil

Kel-Oni-Won

Kelowna, B.C.,
Fig 7.9

Kelowna Museum

Kempenfelt Bay, Lake Simcoe

“Kempenfelt Kelly,”.
See also

“Igopogo,” of Lake Simcoe

Kentucky

Kentucky Encyclopedia, The
(Kleber)

Kentucky Lake

Kerr, Ian

Kielar, A.

Killarney Island, Ireland

Killarney Lake, New Brunswick, Canada

Kimiecik, Kathy

“Kingstie,” Lake Ontario

Kirk, John; and “Champ,”; and “Cressie” of Lake Crescent; and Lake Okanagan; and Ogopogo; and Ogopogo sightings

Kleber, John

Kodak Instamatic

Kojo, Yasushi

kokanee

Kolowisi (Zuni serpent-god)

Kopp, Jon

Koran

kraken.
See also
giant squid

Kubodera, Tsunemi

Lake Alymer, Quebec

Lake Champlain.
See
Champlain, Lake

Lake Champlain Phenomena

Investigation (LCPI)

Lake Crescent,
Figs. 5.1
–
5.2
,
Figs. 5.4
–
5.5

Lake Crescent Inn

Lake Erie

“Lake Erie Larry,”

Lake George

Lake George Historical Association

Museum

Lake George “monster,”
Figs. 6.1
–
6.2
,
Fig. 6.4
; conclusion, after investigation; description; real sightings

Lake George village

Lake Massawippi

Lake Memphremagog.
See

Memphremagog, Lake

Lake Monster Traditions
(Meurger and Gagnon)

Lake Okanagan.
See
Okanagan, Lake

Lake Onondaga

Lake Ontario

Lake Seljordsvatnet, Norway

Lake St. Francois, Quebec

Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Lake Trois-Lacs, Quebec

Lake Utopia

Lake Victoria, Africa

Lake Williams, Quebec

La Legende Restaurant, Magog

Quebec

Lambton, John de

Lambton family

LeBlond, Paul H.

legal protection, of monsters

Legend of Lil Ogie, The
(Fromm)

leprechauns

Leurbost, Scotland

Levers, Don

Lewis, Robert

Life
magazine

Loch Arkaig, Scotland

Loch Morar, Scotland

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