{"id":4501,"date":"2010-08-29T04:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:51:28","slug":"monster-hunters-return-to-lake-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/08\/monster-hunters-return-to-lake-cameron\/","title":{"rendered":"MONSTER HUNTERS RETURN TO LAKE CAMERON!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Gazette<\/a> has reported that a team of monster hunters will return to Cameron Lake on Vancouver Island next month to search for a creature that locals have swapped chilling stories about for years.<\/p>\n

The B.C. Scientific Cryptozoology Club first visited the area last September to probe for evidence of the Cameron Lake monster. They weren’t able to shed much light on the mystery, but two large strikes on a fish finder prompted the team to return to the lake<\/p>\n

Cammie made a big splash last autumn when the BCSCC<\/a> (British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club) — led by club president, co-founder and noted cryptozoologist John Kirk — launched an expedition to Cameron Lake to investigate what some say is a huge eel-like creature, not unlike Newfoundland’s CRESSIE<\/a>. The team was delighted when they made sonar contact with a large, apparently animate object at the bottom of the lake:<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething just went \u2018ping\u2019 on the alarm on the fish finder and we saw this absolutely massive object in the midst of various fish\u2026 we were quite stunned that there was something that big in the lake and it was in about 60 feet of water, less than 30 yards from shore, it was quite amazing\u2026 maybe it\u2019s a sturgeon, maybe it\u2019s a giant sterile eel, it could be a massive type of salamander\u2026 or it could be something that we\u2019re completely unaware of at this point.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last year, poor weather and equipment troubles bogged down the expedition, but Kirk feels that the sonar reading alone warrants another crack at this mystery:<\/p>\n

“What we did not establish is: What were those big readings that we obtained on the sonar? We’ve got to find out what that is\u2026 as long as it remains a mystery, it’s incumbent upon us to come back.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Cameron Lake monster, better known as \u201cCAMMIE,\u201d made headlines in the winter of 2010, when it was sighted by Kim MacDonald and her eight-year-old son Tristan, who managed to photograph the beast as they were heading towards Port Alberni on January 5th, 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MacDonald was able to capture approximately one and a half seconds of video before she switched the camera to picture mode and snapped one shot of the LAKE MONSTER<\/a> before it dove out of view:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was big\u2026 my son said, Oh my God, what\u2019s that mum? The head, if that\u2019s what it was, was huge, bigger than a beaver. I grabbed my camera and hopped on top of my truck\u2026 after I took that picture it was gone. I drive past there all the time and I\u2019ve never seen anything like that before. It was round and big. My heart was pounding for a long time\u2026 when I came back later I kept looking for it, really looking, but it was gone\u2026 it\u2019s definitely not a fish or a beaver.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whatever breed of mystery beast that may or may not dwell in the depths of Cameron Lake, Kirk is not optimistic that a large OGOPOGO-like creature lurks at the bottom of Cameron Lake –given the relatively small size of the popular recreational lake:<\/p>\n

“If you had an apex predator that was seriously big, that food source could diminish pretty quickly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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