Lake Champlain: The Untold Story (Short Documentary) 

When I was teaching at Middlebury College, I drove along both the east and west side of the lake, enjoying the views. Thank you for screening!

Great video, thank you for the history and fun ultimately narrowed down to eye-opening matters!

I thought I was the only one who referred to it as "The First Cousin of the Great Lakes" haha. Interesting to discover I'm not the only one!

Thank you for the video

I was stationed at Plattsburgh AFB, and would ice skate over to Valcour Island in the winter .... love the Adirondacks!

i used to live up there, my wife was born and raised there. We've quite a few stories about that lake. here's just 1: my wife was 6, she was on a picnic at Lake Champlain. She walked out onto a dock and looked in the water. As she turned to leave she heard a noise behind her. Turning she saw two small black webbed hands at the end of the dock. As she watched a small black head appeared. At this point she screamed and ran to her family on the beach. Much later she recalled her father relating the story to a group of fishing buddies. Some laughed but others had similar stories. her best description of it is that it was similar in appearance to the creature in the movie "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" but smaller, child size. To this day, she's 68 now, she will not go into a lake for a dip.

Excellent video

Wow, packed a lot of info in less than ten minutes. Nice job.

Good video. It was very well done.

I love videos like this so much history and mystery

Great short video. I grew up im S burlington vt and spent every possible moment when i was growing up on or around or swimming in LC

"What do you do for a living?" "Oh I decide whether lakes are great or not."

This is excellent quality.

Regarding the agricultural runoff, perhaps whatever authorities govern Lake Champlain might want to look into how Ontario, Canada's Tiny Township handles its agricultural runoff. There are a lot of farms on the Penetanguishene Peninsula in the Township at the south end of Lake Huron's colossal Georgian Bay, but I've never heard of any issues with algae. Both Tiny Township and the Town of Wasaga Beach immediately to the southwest are wildly popular tourist spots due to their beach areas and are jam-packed in the summer. Wasaga Beach is actually the world's longest freshwater beach, so it's important for it to be clean for tourism / marketing reasons. It might be worth looking into so Lake Champlain can heal.

The first problem we have to fix, and I live in Burlington Vermont, is they need to stop letting the septic running our lake and all other kinds of manure like from The farms

Truly an amazing body of water, absolutely historic. While lacking in size compared to the "Big 5" Lake Champlain is more historically significant for sure. The battles for freedom of this nation were fought on its waters, many suggest this lake is really where the U.S. Navy's beginnings are rooted. Lots of men died in and around its waters in battle. From naval battles, strategic historic forts that line the west coast shoreline, the former strategic air command base up in Plattsburgh, and the soon to be Burlington VT based F-35 fighter wing the Champlain Valley remains a crucial link in defense of our great nation. While commercial shipping barges have declined recreational boating, and the all important ferry services are a huge part of the maritime economy.

This was also a well made video, figured it would be about a fictional creature but was impressed with the cold hard truth! I'll subscribe while I'm here. Also points for using Kevin Macleod!!

2:22 Wow, I didn't know this. Very interesting!

Fascinating little doc. Great choice of backing music, too. Something that is often disregarded. Not here, though! 👍

Maybe those things that destroy plastic could work on algae too for a lake clean-up? Anything working so far?

I have a project and this was purr- fect

Can we plant hemp by the lake where the farm fields are to help keep it cleaner?

Thumbs up!

I love this lake

to the citizens of Vermont, please protect that amazingly beautiful state! I am a resident of New England and have great respect for Vermont as you folks would call it the green mountain State ! beautiful for sure!

Sewage dumping: Burlington: twice right into the lake... crickets

It's insane to think that raw sewage is going into the lake today given the environmental laws. As for the farmers, they have to do their part as well. There needs to be filtration, no matter what the pollutants are, and in some cases it's as simple as passing a law saying that vegetation along the banks can not be disturbed for X-Number of feet from the shore. Road salt in the winter also plays hazard with fresh water. Water, as in fresh clean water is our life line, and without it there is no future for humanity.

living on the lake for a year and coming up since 10 years old its sad to hear an algae bloom is coming and this is also happening in smaller lakes too. Such as mirror lake, Lake Placid. My biology teacher taught me this and now I feel concerned on what may happen to this lake over time. Hoping less fertilizers are going to be used in Vermont and New York to keep this lake the way its meant to be kept.

The was fine when I left in 1988 What the hell happen. Oh, by the way, I saw Champ in 86 All I could say is wow. I have seen a lot of thing over the years

Even though I don't live around Lake Champlain I respect it just as much as the locals do and I believe in Champ as well so everyone help save lake Champlain

How do you know it was a myth where you there?

It’s much better now

There's a sea monster in it which makes that like very hard to find it it's very hard to find because it's only one here

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Anybody might know who are his descendants? They are the Champions

Sanders helped clean up lake champlain when he was mayor of Burlington

The Ramshorn snail would have a field day with all the algee, to bad the fish would eat them before they would have a chance to clean up.

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Samuel De Champlain founded my area in Central Ontario. We have a statue of him (or did as it was taken down to be restored and then issues have arose over it and the depiction of natives at his feet by our local Rez just across the water, about 1.5km straight across the lake) at our local city park.There is also a French Catholic public school bearing the name and I also work at a hotel called the Champlain that has been in our city since 1932. It's crazy how much this man did discover here in the northeast of America and Canada. Finally I must also say that you are butchering the "De" it sounds more like "duh" . As well, the Champlain is pronounced Sham-pl'anne', the 'i' is not pronounced as it is french. However we pronounce Champlain the same English way as you do, Lol. Great video! Filled with lots of interesting facts and information of the lake. Very, very good video!!

Don't worry I'm going to fix it

Landfill leachate being "treated" by the Montpelier and Plattsburgh NY WWTPs should be a concern to those relying on or caring about the health of the lake...

How does one discover a lake?

I wish scientists would stop wasting their time in Loch Ness, & start devoting real efforts to the exploration of lake champlain. Something in lake champlain has been caught echo locating multiple times, in multiple locations. As far as science has determined, no fresh water species of fish has the ability to echo locate. There's clearly some large species unknown to modern science or out of its normal ecosystem living in lake champlain. This ancient body of water needs to be thoroughly & transparently explored by the scientific community. There's something special in that lake.

I saw a ufo dive into this lake and come out of the water and fly off into space.

I have seen Champ two times in 2 parts of the lake .

I was on Missisquoi bay today It was disgusting This documentary is 7 years old This is not ok

Champys big real prove me wrong

Mason, why did they take their great lakes status away

Three governments have to protect this lake. The Quebec provincial government, and the New York and Vermont state governments. Interesting video. Cheers!

That destroys any chance of any lake monster in there.. Go to loch ness its cleaner..

SAME PROBLEM IN FLORIDA, EXCESS HEAT, AND SEPTIC TANKS THAT ARE OLD AND WORN OUT, AS WELL AS FARMING RUN OFF,

Comedian/activist Barry Crimmins once remarked on the meaning of the original Native American name for the lake---it meant "Beautiful Waters Surrounded by Fascists."

"In 1609 the lake was FOUNDED by Samuel Champlain"?????? "Several years before that the lake was OBTAINED by the native Americans"??? Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Bernie is complicit.

Hahahahaha .... that picture of "Champy" is a reproduction of the Loch Ness monster hahahaha🤣😂🙃😛

" The lake was "obtained " by the Native Americans years before "Champlain " discovered it " hmmmm okay but other than that great video

Curse you Blue Green Algae!

Actually zebra muscles help keep the water clean

Vermonters, New Yorkers, y Quebecois.

Wtf! No one cares about blue or green algae we only caere about champ. I was scammed and want my money back now!!!!!

It's not the farms, there are fewer farms today than any point in time. If farming was the culprit, the algae would have been a problem for centuries now. It's something else and I don't mean climate change.

Champy not champ

Blame the farmers? Maybe blame the cities that dump millions of gallons of sewage in the lake