Lake Monster Mysteries (27 page)

Loch Ness, Scotland
Fig.I.1
; length

Loch Ness monster; deer, swimming, as illusion of; eyewitness description,
Fig. I.2
; fame of; flippers,
Fig. 1.4
; hoaxes
Fig. 1.3
; humps lack of skeletal evidence of; as a log; mistaken sightings; motion picture of; otters, as mistaken sightings of; photographs,
Fig. 1.3
,
Fig. 1.4
; as pinniped; as plesiosaur; research dollars spent on; salmon, as producing “monster” effects; seismic activity, causing apparitions of monster; sightings of; underwater searches

Loch Ness Monster, The
(Gould)

Loch Ness Mystery Solved, The
(Binns)

Loch Ness Story, The
(Witchell)

Loftus, E.

logs, as mistaken monsters; “Champ” of Lake Champlain,
Figs. A1–A5
; hydrographic explanation of logs rising and falling.
See also
driftwood

London Times

Lord, Thomas Reeves

Lough Leane aquatic monster

Lough Ree, Ireland

Ludington, Mich.

“Lukwata,” of Lake Victoria, Africa

Lutra canadensis

Lutra lutra

Macdonald, John

MacDougall, John

Mackal, Roy P.

Macleans
magazine

Magaguadavic River

Magin, Ulrich

Magog, Quebec

Malloy, Barbara

Malvo, John Lee

manatee

manes; of Ogopogo

Mann, William

Mansi, Anthony

Mansi, Sandra; deafness of monster, as described by; eyewitness testimony; process gone through after taking photograph; publication of photograph, events of; taking the photograph

Mansi photograph of “Champ,”
Fig. 2.6
; animating, as part of investigation,
Figs. A1–A5
; camera used; conclusion, after investigation; experiment to imitate,
Fig. 2.10
,
Fig. 2.11
; Frieden analysis of; hump and head not connected; hydrographic explanation of driftwood rising and falling; journalistic errors in reporting expert analysis of; lack of movement of monster; lack of organs on head; lack of photographs after publication of; LeBlond analysis; location of sighting; negatives; original print; process gone through about before and after publication; Radford analysis,
Fig. 2.10
; Radford analysis, conclusion; sandbar in; scientific analysis of; sinking into water; size determination,
Fig. 2.10
; tracing from enlargement of,
Fig. 2.7

maps, with monsters depicted,
Fig. 1.1

Maquam Bay, Lake Champlain

Martinez, Lionel

Massawippi, Lake

Massey, N.

Maugel, T.

McElroy, Rob

McKinney, Mary

Memphremagog, Lake,
Fig. 3.1
; name, origin of

“Memphre” of Lake Memphremagog; description; name, origin of; photographs,
Fig. 3.2
,
Fig. 3.3
; sightings of

Meurger, Michel; and “Champ,”; and monster legends

Micmac Indians

“Migo,” Lake Dakatua, New Britain

mink

Missiquoi Bay, Lake Champlain

mistaken sightings; “Bangles
fallacy,” of mistaking art forreality; “bandwagon effect,” of sightings increased by publicity; beavers,
Fig. 3.3
; boat wakes; “Champ” of Lake Champlain; “Cressie” of Lake Crescent; crocodiles; deer, swimming; distorted perceptions; dolphins; driftwood; ducks; fish; heightened expectancy; Loch Ness monster; logs,
Figs. A1–A5
; manatee; moose; otters; otters swimming in a line,
Fig. 7.5
; overestimation of size; Silver Lake serpent; sturgeon; watercraft as swimming monsters; water reflections

mokele-mbembe, of Africa

Monk, Jerry

Monster Hunters
(documentary),
Fig. 7.8

Monster Island.
See
Rattlesnake Island, Lake Okanagan

Moon, Mary

moose, as mistaken monster

“Morag,” of Loch Morar, Scotland

Morgan, Lawrence

Morgawr

Mori, Kyoichi

“Mosqueto,”

“Ms. Crystal” of Crystal Lake

Muhammad, John Allen

Munster, Sebastian

Murray, Jan

muskrats

Mysteries and Monsters of the Sea
(Spaeth)

Mysterious America: The Revised Edition
(Coleman)

Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology
(Eberhart)

Nahuel Huapi

“Nahuelito,” of Argentina

Naish, Darren

Naitaka.
See
N'ha-a-itk

Napier, John

National Academy of Design

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals
(Whitaker)

National Geographic Television (NGTV), and Lake Okanagan expedition

National Museum of Scotland

Native Americans/Canadians: Beothuk Indians; and “Champ” of Lake Champlain, lack of sightings by; Creek; and “Cressie” of Lake Crescent; horned serpents, in legends of; and Lake Memphremagog; Micmac Indians; myth and reality, lack of importance of distinction; in Nebraska; and N'ha-a-itk, at Lake Okanagan; at Okanagan, Lake in; Okanakane Indians; Oneida; Pueblo Indians; and Silver Lake serpent; Sushwap Indians; Tuscaroras; Zuni Indians

Natural History
(Pliny the Elder)

Neigher, Alan

“Nessie.”
See
Loch Ness monster

Nessiteras chameleonopteryx. See
Loch

Ness monster

New Britain

New Brunswick, Canada

Newfoundland

Newport, Vt.

Newport Bay, Lake Memphremagog

New York's Department of

Environmental Conservation

New York Times

New Zealand

N'ha-a-itk; attacks/killing by; black magic powers; demanding ransom of live sacrifice; fearsome nature of; home; Kel-Oni-Won, as predating; man made to be, as punishment for murder; petroglyphs of,; relationship to Ogopogo; and social control, using fear of; social function of; translation of name

Nickell, Joe,
Fig. 4.2
,
Fig. 6.2
; and “Champ” experiments; maps and drawings by,
Figs. 1.1
—
1.2
,
Fig. 2.1
,
Fig. 3.1
,
Fig. 7.1
,
Fig. 7.5
; mistaken sightings; monster hoaxes; and monster legends; naming of monsters; photographs by,
Figs.2.2
–
2.5
,
Figs. 2.10
–
11
,
Fig. 4.1
,
Fig. 4.3
,
Figs. 6.3
–
6.4
,
Figs. 7.3
–
7.4
,
Fig. 8.1

Norm's Bait and Tackle

octopus

Ogasawara Islands

Ogopogo; attacks/ killing by; children's books about Ogie as; conclusion, after investigation; descriptions; divers investigating,
Fig. 7.2
; expedition to investigate; experiment to imitate film of; eyewitnesses of; film and video analysis; film and video of; folklore about; home; lack of skeletal evidence of; lack of skeletal evidence of prey of; as log; mistaken for swimming otters,
Fig. 7.5
; multiple persons sighting of; as N'ha-a-itk (Native American legend); as Ogie, the lovable mascot,
Fig. 7.9
,
Fig. 7.10
; origins of name; palindromic nature of name; photographs and video of; reality of, in 1920s; reconciling different incarnations of; relationship to N'ha-a-itk; seaplane search for,
Fig. 7.4
; sightings; sightings increasing, after song published naming it; sonar, use of in investigation of
Fig. 7.3

Ogopogo
(Gaal)

“Ogopogo: The Funny Fox-Trot, The” (song)

Ogopogo: The Misunderstood Lake

Monster
(Levers)

“Ogopups,”

Ohio River

Okanagan, Lake; depth
; length; map,
Fig. 7.1
;
rare freezing of; sonar investigation of
Fig. 7.3
; tourism industry

Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Okanakane Indians

Olavarria, C.

Olsson, Peter

Omaha World-Herald

Oneida Indians

Onondaga, Lake

Ontario, Lake

Optical Sciences Center, University of

Arizona

Ortelius

Oswego, Lake Erie

Otter Creek, Lake Champlain

otters; creating illusion of humps of monsters; creating illusion of sea serpent; swimming in a line,
Fig. 7.5

Oudemans, Antoon Cornelis

Owen, Elizabeth

Palmer, Richard

Papua New Guinea

paranormal writing, shoddy

scholarship in

Parker, Dave

Parsons, Fred,
Fig. 5.4

Peace, Carolyn

Peachland, B.C.

Pear, Nancy

Pegasus

Penrod, Bruce

Penticton, British Columbia,
Fig. 7.1

Perron, Darren

Perry, N.Y.

Peterborough, Ontario

petroglyphs of monsters,
Fig. 7.8

Phillips, Fred H.

photographs; black and white

versus color; of “Champ” of

Lake Champlain,
Fig. 2.6
; hoaxes; Loch

Ness monster,
Fig. 1.3
;

Mansi photograph of “Champ,”
Fig. 2.6
; “Memphre” of Lake

Memphremagog,
Fig. 3.2
,
Fig. 3.3
; of Ogopogo; Stuart, Lachlan, of “Nessie,”; underwater photographs,
Fig. 1.4

Piccardi, Luigi

Pickett, Thomas J.

Pierce, Sidney

pinnipeds

Pioneer Museum, Perry, N.Y.

Plattsburgh Press-Republican,
Fig. 2.9

Plattsburgh Republican

plesiosaurs; “Champ” of Lake Champlain,
Fig. 2.8
; Loch Ness monster; “Memphre” of Lake Memphremagog; “Nahuelito,” of Argentina; Ogopogo

Pliny the Elder

Plucknett, Alex

Plucknett, Dennis

Porter, Marjorie L.

Port Henry, N.Y.

Port Kent, N.Y.

Power, Jennifer

prehistoric reptiles

Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)

Proof Positive
(SciFi Channel program)

Pueblo Indians

pulley lines, used for fake monsters,
Fig. 6.3

Pultneyville (N.Y.) Commercial Press

Punch and Judy

Puttkamer, Peter von,
Fig. 7.8

Quebec, Canada

Rabbit's Arm.
See
Robert's Arm

Newfoundland

Radford, Benjamin,
Fig. 2.2
,
Fig. 5.4
; and “Champ” expedition; and lack of skeletal evidence; and Lake George “monster,”; Mansi photograph analysis,
Fig. 2.10
; maps and drawings by,
Figs.2.7
–
2.8
,
Fig. 5.1
; and “Memphre,”; and Ogopogo; photographs by,
Figs. A1–A5
,
Fig. 2.10
,
Fig. 2.13
,
Fig I.3
,
Fig. 5.2
,
Figs. 5.4
–
5.5
,
Fig. 6.2
,
Fig. 7.2
,
Figs.7.6
–
7.7
,
Figs.7.9
–
7.10

Ramsey, Charles H.

Rana catesbeiana

Rattlesnake Island, Lake Okanagan,
Fig. 7.4
,
Fig. 7.6
; physical dangers of

Raynor film, of “Nessie,”

Razdan, R.

reflections, as mistaken monsters

Rice, Clark

Rideout, Pierce

Rines, Robert

Roberts, Frank D.

Robert's Arm, Newfoundland

Roed, Murray A.

Roesch, Ben

Rowland, Bruce,
Fig. 2.9

Royal Air Force's Joint Air

Reconnaissance Intelligence

Center

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

divers

Ruah bed and breakfast, Lake George

Runnalls Denby (surveyors),
Fig. A.6

Rutkowski, Mark

Ryan, Hughie

sacrifices to monsters

salamanders

salmon, as producing “monster”

effects

Sansom, E. W.

Sasquatch

scientific investigations of lake

monsters: beginnings; versus compilations; late twentieth century; nineteenth century; scientific method, importance of

SciFi Channel

Scott, Lloyd

Scott, Walter

seals

sea monsters: compared with lake

monsters, reports of; evidence of

Searching for Hidden Animals

(Mackal)

seiche (underwater wave)

seismic activity, causing apparitions of monsters

Seljordsvatnet, Lake, Norway

“Selma,” of Lake Seljordsvatnet, Norway

“Seymour'T'Semoe” of Seymour Lake

Seymour Lake

Shiels, Tony “Doc,”

Shine, Adrian

Shuker, Karl

sightings of monsters; in Africa; Asia; “Champ” of Lake Champlain,
Fig. 2.3
; conclusion, after total investigation; “Cressie” of Lake Crescent; distances viewed from; interviewing eyewitnesses; in Ireland/Scotland/Wales; Kentucky; Lake George “monster,”; at Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; in lakes in Quebec; Lake Tahoe; at Lake Utopia, New Brunswick, Canada; Loch Ness monster; “Memphre” of Lake Memphremagog; modern; multiple person sightings of Ogopogo; in Norway/Sweden; Ogopogo,; in the Pacific; in Poland/Switzerland; publication of; related to publicity; Silver Lake serpent; in South America.
See also
mistaken sightings

Silver Bay, Lake George

Silver Bay Association

Silver Lake,
Fig. 4.1

Silver Lake serpent; conclusion

after investigation;

sightings

Silver Lake Serpent Festival; hot-air

balloon, in shape of serpent,
Fig.4.2