Swedish cryptozoology

[abramis]

I don´t know if this has been up on the board before, but here is a link to the homepage of GUST, (Global Underwater Search Team). They have many theories regarding Loch Ness, Bigfoot and more.

/http://www.cryptozoology.st/

The thing is that I´m fishing in one of the lakes they have investigated, Tavelsjön (Lake Tavelsjon on their page), and the story has all the classical details. I know the lake a bit, and I tell you, if I see a "monster" it´ll have my fishing-pole up the ******! No, but seriously, I have seen waves on an otherwise calm lake, but that is no indication of a "monster". Since it has a rift thruogh it, it is probably something coming from movements in the ground beneath the lake.

"6,000 years ago Lake Tavelsjon was cut off from the sea, after the area earlier had been in the Vindelalven River delta. Lake Tavelsjon is a rift with a large fault straight through it, which has given it an interesting bottom profile. There are large variations in the depth and a series of deep holes along the fault. Depending on the time of the year, weather etc there could be shoals of fish in the holes, along the steep walls or at the more shallow parts."

It looks seriuos at the beginning, but later in the article they make every far-fetched explanation they can come up with. If one digs deeper in the homepage, you´ll find the classical " The scientists won´t reconize true facts, because they come from ordinary people, they are all involved in a huge cover-up, and so on.... Really fun reading.

It even has an article on.... wait for it..... water memory!!!!!

They seem to have been listening to our dear Jacques Benveniste, and even comes up with their own explanation that if you scoop up a little water from Loch Ness and pour it in another lake, new little "Nessies" will form!

Browse the site thoroughly for a good laugh!

 

[Goshawk]

Browse the site thoroughly for a good laugh!

Love to--except that your link doesn't work. You copied and pasted it erroneously. No problem: Try this.






As I don't think it's fair to mock those for whom English is a second language, I will pass on the opportunity to critique the site's use of English. And its many typographical and spelling errors.

Overall, it looks like a pretty straightforward roundup of lake monster sightings.

The Bear Lake Monster was an admitted hoax.

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=93865

At Utah State, Charlene Hirschi explored the history. She says the legend began as a publicity stunt and Joseph Rich later admitted it.

Charlene Hirschi: "He told us what his motive was. His motive was simply that he wanted to, that Bear Lake wasn't getting enough attention. And that he wanted to promote Bear Lake."

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05312004/utah/utah.asp

he Bear Lake Monster began as a publicity stunt in 1868, says Bob Parson, author of A History of Rich County and curator of special collections at Utah State University.

Joseph C. Rich arrived with his father, Charles C. Rich, an apostle sent by LDS President Brigham Young in 1863 to settle the Bear Lake Valley, which spans the Utah-Idaho border region. Five years later, Joseph Rich began publicizing the story of the Bear Lake Monster to attract more settlers.

An entrepreneur and correspondent for the Evening Deseret News, Joseph Rich was a consummate storyteller, Parson says. He never claimed in his dispatches to have seen the monster himself, but told the stories of prominent residents who had and reported that the Shoshone natives feared the water because of the serpentlike monsters that inhabited the lake.

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Twenty years later, Rich would boast of having perpetuated that "wonderful first-class lie -- the Bear Lake Monster," but by then his stunt had taken hold among residents and had become a full-blown legend, says Charlene Hirschi, director of the USU Writing Center and a folklore buff who delivered a paper on the monster to the Utah Folklore Society several years ago.

 

[abramis]

Thanks Goshawk. I was in a hurry when posting, and missed it when I checked my spelling.

Correct adress: www.cryptozoology.st/

"As I don't think it's fair to mock those for whom English is a second language, I will pass on the opportunity to critique the site's use of English. And its many typographical and spelling errors"

Yes, I know.... feel free to correct my post too, if you find any grammatical or spelling errors.

Anyway, the site gives a good impression at first, but when you dig through the articles you´ll see that the writers have a tendency to mock scientists (and their demand for evidence, and unwillingness to proclaim a "hit" before a theory is proved by evidence). It´s a fun read, if one manages to go through all the links.

*edited for spelling *

 

[Ed]

I know the lake a bit, and I tell you, if I see a "monster" it´ll have my fishing-pole up the ******!

Up the "******" not the "***"?

Ureter?

Meatus?

earwax?

At least give us a hint?

 

[abramis]

Dear Ed(god?)

******=arslet (swedish)which in this case are those three expressions combined.

 

[Ed]

Dear Ed(god?)

******=arslet (swedish)which in this case are those three expressions combined.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Sorry. Even I, EdGod(r) get confused with those darn frictive vowels.

Carry on.