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Swedish sea monster 'caught on film'
TheLocal ^ | 28 Aug 08 | staff reporter

Posted on 08/28/2008 6:53:33 AM PDT by Daffynition

A group of filmmakers claim to have successfully captured Sweden’s legendary Great Lake Sea Monster (Storsjöodjuret), which is said to lurk in the waters of the Storsjön outside Östersund in northern Sweden.

A film crew which set up cameras on one of the lake’s islets last spring now say that they have an image of the seamonster, according to Svergies Television.

The film clip shows a blurry, long and narrow silhouette moving in the lake’s depths.

“It clearly shows that it’s warm and is made up of cells, otherwise our cameras wouldn’t indicate red, so it can be a sea snake or some other kind of sea animal,” said a female member of the film crew to Sveriges Television news in Jämtland.

The effort to find the monster has generated a great deal of interest, with the American television network NBC planning to document the hunt.

Next summer, the number of special cameras placed in the lake will increase to thirty.

This isn’t the first time that crews have hunted for the Great Lake Sea Monster.

Back in 1894, a Swedish sea captain named Dedering created a stock company with the express purpose of catching the renowned beast.

The hunt, which was also sponsored in part by King Oscar II, even featured whale harpooners.

In 1986, Jämtland’s county administrative board banned anyone from “killing, injuring, or trapping a live animal such as the Great Lake Sea Monster” or from “removing or injuring the Great Lake Sea Monster’s eggs, roe, or dwelling”.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; cryptobiology; horseeels
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1 posted on 08/28/2008 6:53:33 AM PDT by Daffynition
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2 posted on 08/28/2008 6:55:13 AM PDT by JRios1968 (Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait until they are halfway back up. You get more leverage!)
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To: JRios1968

DAMN IT did you have to do that so soon after breakfast.


3 posted on 08/28/2008 6:59:52 AM PDT by snowman1 (SHAMNESTY.)
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To: dragonblustar

Swedish nessie ping.


4 posted on 08/28/2008 7:00:01 AM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right)
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To: Daffynition

I’d never heard of a Swedish nessie, just Loch Ness and Champy.


5 posted on 08/28/2008 7:02:54 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: JRios1968

Oh whoa! Here I am all into this supernatural/?extinct monster story and I roll down and see that!

Really cracked me up.

But, boy isn’t this an interesting story?


6 posted on 08/28/2008 7:03:59 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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I’d never heard of a Swedish nessie, just Loch Ness and Champy.

Nessie, Champy, and now - Fjordy?

7 posted on 08/28/2008 7:05:36 AM PDT by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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To: Daffynition

“Back in 1894, a Swedish sea captain named Dedering created a stock company with the express purpose of catching the renowned beast....
In 1986, Jämtland’s county administrative board banned anyone from “killing, injuring, or trapping a live animal such as the Great Lake Sea Monster” or from “removing or injuring the Great Lake Sea Monster’s eggs, roe, or dwelling”.”

Sigh.

What a difference a hundred years of feminization and liberalism makes of a country.

Nowadays if Grendel were to appear on the scene in Denmark, the Eurofag socialists would fall all over themselves trying to figure out a way to get him into the welfare office or into therapy.


8 posted on 08/28/2008 7:17:54 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Daffynition

What, no blurry pictures of the critter in a freezer?


9 posted on 08/28/2008 7:20:44 AM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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Could it be a albino moose??


10 posted on 08/28/2008 7:31:59 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: Daffynition

A Storsjöodjuret once bit my sister’s Møøse . . .

No realli!


11 posted on 08/28/2008 7:48:55 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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In British Colombia supposedly there’s a lake monster in Lake Okonogan (?) I watched a documentary about it on The Discovery Channel several times.


12 posted on 08/28/2008 8:01:53 AM PDT by driftless2
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........please, please warn us before posting such a picture of such a hideous sea monster.
13 posted on 08/28/2008 8:04:31 AM PDT by never4get (We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid)
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To: driftless2

Yes, the Ogopogo is in Lake Okanagan.


14 posted on 08/28/2008 10:01:06 AM PDT by Don W (To write with a broken pencil is pointless.)
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Yes, the Ogopogo is in Lake Okanagan.

And the touristy travel brochures from the area never fail to mention that.

15 posted on 08/28/2008 10:08:16 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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16 posted on 08/28/2008 10:16:51 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: NCBraveheart; Virginia Ridgerunner; A. Patriot; brytlea; Miles the Slasher; corbie; Owl558; ...
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Thanks, Dragonblustar

17 posted on 08/28/2008 12:30:06 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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I see it now!


18 posted on 08/28/2008 12:39:17 PM PDT by Daffynition ("I have been reading the blogs ... Biden was the only one who said yes! " ~ roses of sharon)
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It's good for tourism ...


19 posted on 08/28/2008 12:56:17 PM PDT by Daffynition ("I have been reading the blogs ... Biden was the only one who said yes! " ~ roses of sharon)
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Elephant trunk?


20 posted on 08/28/2008 12:59:28 PM PDT by Mashood
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