All right, call me credulous but you totally have my attention with your story. Are you serious or just fooling around on Saturday night? If you’re serious, have you ever tried to relate what you saw to anything historical? (dinosaurs etc.) Or from your adult viewpoint, what do you think the thing that you saw *was*?
(P.S. And why haven’t you already called George Noory with this??? ;o)
Oh I was 8 years old at the time of the incident - My sister was 10 but she never wants me to talk about it coz it evidently is traumatic memory for her because she was always protective of me but on this occasion she was too far away behind me to protect me. So she is embarrassed.
But about 2 years later 1952 at Sunday Mass I heard on of the Altar boys from Port Henry telling a story of a man had seen Champ [ we didn`t call him that = “Champ” is a nomen tagged on about 30 year later in 1980`s by people from outside the area.]
The guy at Bulawagga bar was excited and everyone called him drunk when he saw it from the bar window. This bar is raised up above the lake and set back against the mountain so there is a good panoramic view of the bay. But it was the first report I heard from Bulwagga Bay. But strangely it did not revive my memory of my 1950 sighting. Only when I was in California 40 years later and the picture of Champ sent in by a woman north of here 40 miles did my memory return and I said to myself- : “Hey! I remember now! I saw something too when I was a kid- So I called up my mother and told her about my memory recall coming back- All she has ever said about the incident is “Oh! That Thing!” My sister never wants to discuss it with me. But my nephews and my brother all have seen it so they are always willing to talk about sightings to me. I think I did call it in a long time ago to Coast to Coast, early 2000`’s maybe. We also had 2 sheriff and state trooper sightings of a creature on a golf course in Whitehall here a few years back. Also, my brother who drives a lot sees things on the roads here at night - he doesn`t know what they are. There was one report here in local newspapers 1880`s of a “hairy wild man” up in the high mountains here. But they think it was just an old hermit. Usually I hike to the top of Mt. Defiance and use hi-zoom binoculars and camera to scan the lake from north of Whitehall to 3 mile point around Fort Ticonderoga- sometimes we see things but usually just waves, coz now there is so much small boat traffic there it spoils anything happening.
But in 1950`s we fished by boat just a mile south of the fort and we could see schools of fish jumping out of the water and going south as if something was chasing them- but who knows?
In those days there was hardly any pleasure craft on that part of the lake . If I ask some of the local fishermen if they had ever seen Champ, they will tell me straight but they will not relate it to any outsider - That`s the way it is.
I checked the geology of the region and it appears that Lake Champlain and Lake George were passably connected and flowed south to the Hudson River from the St. Lawrence River but the 3 glacial moraine occurrences blocked the southern end of Lake George and made only a 300 foot drop impassable trickle from the latter north to Lake Champlain. There is a reported recent sighting on the St. Lawrence on the Akwesasne Reservation in Darren Bonaparte`s book about Mohawk stories etc.