There
are many stories of monsters that roam the seven seas as told by the sailors
who venture out in those waters. The tales of mega sharks, giant squid,
mermaids and even temptress sirens of the sea that date all the way back to
Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. The sea is a vast amount of water and is not
easily explored both on the surface and most especially below. Most of the
world’s oceans have yet to be explored and identified and that’s just the
surface if we go below then there might just in fact be those sea monsters of
legend and lore. Now that makes total and complete sense for the oceans of the
world, but what about lakes?
It
seas that lakes go through the same amount of legend and lore in relation to
sea monsters as the oceans do. Through out the world there are reports of many
lake monsters. Some of these lake monsters are more famous than others, but
they still all come down to the same thing, monsters in a lake.
Some
of the most commonly known lake monsters are tow in particular one being the
Loch Ness Monster in Scotland and then Champ located in Lake Champlain near New
York. Loch Ness is truly the granddaddy of all lake monsters and thrives in
tourism just from its legendary status. Now there have been expeditions of the
lake to try and hunt down the elusive creature. If you look at all the
experiments that have taken place to find the Loch Ness Monsters I think you
would have to agree that the chances of us finding something in there is slim
to none. Well through all the experiments they have found nothing, and people
to this day are still spotting the great lake monster. Could all these people
be lying or could their eyes be playing tricks on them? In a world where
everyone wants that 15 minutes of fame I would venture to guess that a fair bit
of them are lying and the rest have seen something that looked odd, but can
easily be explained.
A
lesser known lake monster is that located in Pennsylvania and is billed as PAs
own loch ness monster. The lake is located in Raystown Pennsylvania and in the
Raystown lake is said to exist a lake monster. Now being from PA I am
particularly drawn to this because there haven’t been all that many sightings
and they are all fairly recent. Now being the scuba diver that I am would love
to venture into the lake and take a look for myself, but I highly doubt I would
find anything.
The
exploration of lake and the eco system that live within them should be a fairly
easy task to accomplish. So long as there are no rivers or underwater lines to
other bodies of water there should be no reason why we couldn’t drop a
side-scan sonar, comb the lake and find these supposed monsters? One reason is
because nobody wants to waste the time, effort and money on such an expedition
because it is chasing a legend that doesn’t exist. Are there things living in
lakes that people don’t know about? Sure there are and we find things everyday
but if we can find the smallest of items in a lake then why wouldn’t we be able
to find a giant lake monster? Do you think the lake monster is smarter than us
and messing with us? If you do then I feel bad for you, there are no such
things as lake monsters as for sea monsters I would be willing to believe that
much more easily.Be safe and don’t feed the lake monsters,
Jon Bolton @JohnCannonTBS
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