Champ is the monster of Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain is 120 miles long and 400 feet deep and an excellent habitat for a huge water animal. Research reports the actual sighting by de Champlain was in the St. Lawrence estuary. We all know about Nessie in Loch Ness in Scotland who has been seen many times by Nessie watchers, but not much is know about her. Not much is know about Champ either.
Champ was first seen over 300 times in the last 100 years. Samuel de Champlain was the first to record a sighting, but history proved that the Native Americans had drawn pictures of the great animal before de Champlain. Lake Champlain runs along the Vermont-New York border up into Quebec Province in Canada. Various sightings in different areas have been recorded. Those sightings were in 1819 in Port Henry, New York and in 1870, 1871, 1873, 1945 and 1984. Tourists on steamboats reported seeing Champ over these many years.
The most publicized sighting was confirmed by a picture from a tourist taken with a Kodak camera and published in Time and The New York Times news paper. However, in 1993 two bathers in Button Bay State Park in Vermont reported a baby Champ swan between them. Dennis Hall has a video of Champ and P.T Barnum offered 5000 for a photo of Champ for his World Fair Show. Lake Champlain has been around for over 10,000 years.
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