I saw it. I was kayaking at dusk when a great beast from the Triassic Period surfaced beside me. It studied me carefully and said, "Imma need tree-fiddy."
I was born on Seneca Lake and saw some very large lake trout but not like the legendary ones of yesteryear. They still hold the annual lake trout derby there I think but, as large as they are, lakers and rainbows are smaller today.
I’ve heard the legend all my life. My grandfather had a cabin on Canandaigua lake where a college friend of my mother’s saw a strange creature following her canoe. She heard a snorting sound and thought a deer was swimming and turned around to see a large serpent like head. Now I live in Ithaca and hear about the “monster” in Cayuga lake
@@stevewhite7426 There is. When I was researching information for the documentary, I found one article that was particularly interesting. It was published on Jan. 5th, 1897 in the Ithaca Daily Journal and described the 69th annual anniversary of what they called "Old Greeny". There are various articles throughout the early years, sporadically - but the reason this was interesting because it 1. Gave insight on repeated sightings, 2. Gave us a date to go back too which is 1828. This is important because 1828 was the first year of the completion of the Erie Canal connecting Cayuga and Seneca lakes to lake Ontario - which would make it hypothetically possible for a large serpent to travel from the ocean to Cayuga/Seneca. The earliest reports I found were in the New York Spectator. There was one sighting in 1829 at St. Catherine's, Canada (lake Ontario) and a Welland Canal intelligencer gave insight on the sighting. Some articles of that time reference "sightings 20-25 years ago" as passed down stories where one such story alleges a Serpent chased a boat ashore near Oswego sometime between 1804 and 1809. Another alleges a British sailor was attacked, killed and taken under by a large snake near Sodus Point during the war of 1812.
Snorting, eh? Just what Caddy (Cadborosaurus), the legendary sea monster here in B.C. and around the San Juan Islands, was caught doing on many occasions. Highly recommend a book on Cadborosaurus by Dr. LeBlond and Dr. Bousfield.
My friend caught an 19 foot stergion in the Columbia River. It took him 4 hours to get it to shore. He said he was in an 18 foot boat and it was bigger then the boat. This was 20 years ago. But they do get pretty big. Alot bigger then 10 foot!
sounds like that was probably a white sturgeon. Seneca Lake has lake sturgeon. Different sturgeon reach different sizes and white sturgeon are larger than lake sturgeon.
Most likely so called, Super Eels".....scientists now believe these can grow upwards of 35ft. Very large Eels have been spotted in many waterways and they survive in a range of temperatures.
@@Rod_I._Rigo actually Eels can do this. They're also know to eat almost anything animal or vegetable matter. Left unchecked, like some catfish, they will keep growing to exceptional lengths. They can be quite voracious!
I lived in Dresden, that lake is creepy. The water is always freezing cold and it has black spots you can see on the surface where the deep drop offs are. Its over 600 ft deep in some spots.
01:52 as Pike starts to say "every time somebody sees it..." There's something far out in the water, just right of center. Then it submerges. Just saying 🙂
I'll never forget being in a rowboat with my cousins, crossing a huge lake in Minnesota. In the middle of the lake, I thought what if there was some monster that would attack the boat. My cousin told me never to leave your fingers over the side of a boat, because a muskie or Pike couldn't come up and snap a finger off. People are always dismissing every sighting, as if people are unable to identify it.
Been living in New York all my lifeless than an hour away, this is the first I've heard of this, but who knows unless we get down in the water and start mapping underwater, there could be caves to hide in or even go from lake to lake. They are close enough together a cave system could be down there. I won't believe it till I see one personally or we finally get decent photos or video would be better.
The only explanation for the sturgeon theory was if several sturgeon were together and following each other to form a sort of line, but according to DEC, sturgeon have never been found in Seneca.
I've lived in the finger lakes region all of my life and I have never heard of a sturgeon being caught in Seneca lake, but I have seen some hellishly big images on a couple of different fish finders at about 150-200 feet depth.
Wherever there's a large body of water you can count on people reporting supposed monsters. With such an abundance of lake monsters around the world, you'd think that at least one dead carcass would have washed up ashore confirming the existence of at least one of the many supposed lake monsters. I don't think any of them are real. This goes to show how everywhere large bodies of water, exist you'll find people whose imaginations get the better of them, and in remarkably similar ways.
It's all perspective really and new species are discovered all the time, especially in the oceans. In the specific case of Seneca, it is 651 ft deep and spring fed. The current of the water, especially over the deepest parts actually give a downward flow which is why many drowning victims are never recovered. It is too deep for divers as well. Any supposed lake monster that would die in Seneca, would probably sink to the depths and never wash up.
Several dead carcasses of various types of sea monsters have been washed ashore in the last few years, I keep track of those: in Scotland, in Northern Spain, in West Sussex, here in British Columbia (a baby Caddy on Triangle Beach in Richmond, B.C., there is a clear picture available online, clearly not a seal, some sort of ocean reptile with four flippers). A friend of mine was out in a river delta photographing wild birds and took a photo of a bald eagle above the water carrying a young Caddy it had caught in the river where it joins the Straight of Georgia. Lots of evidence.
I think they are otters.Otters are about six feet long and live in family groups. And things on the water surface can look larger than they are when seen at a distance. And I think the story descrobes an otter raising it's head out of the water and bearing it's teeth. Sturgeon can be the cause of some sightings at a distance but they don't have teeth. Large pike could also cause some distant sightings. Nothing unknown. Just an urban legend.
These creatures do exist, how widespread, it seems because of rarity of sightings....maybe very few. Since a human's lifespan is short...if certain racial groups don't have an oral history, or write it down, accounts will get lost. Many animals need to be protected, but then there are some, that are predators who will watch, if you're alone. Check ancient maps, and you'll see drawings of different kinds of sea monsters, that sailors had to be careful of. Even religious accounts of trekking through waters...one would have to be careful of said creatures. I think people put down the ideas now, because sightings are few. In S. Texas where I live, I have heard stories, of different creatures, and have encountered just glimpses of strange things. I wouldn't write it off.
Wonder why some nerds don't research the pics and stuff "to the bottom". Fx find out how much wind there was, the day the video was made, and define the size of things by comparing to wave size at that wind and stuff like that.
There is a secret government project going on in Seneca Lake. There’s a very large barge out in the lake near Dresden that is conducting deep lake research on the cold water about 600’ down that generate its own waves as if separate from the lake above. This is my best recollection of some material displayed in Eaton Hall I think in the 80’s? Anyway it sounds innocent enough but if you get “too close” to that barge, you’ll be warned off. So?
The extreme hydrological violence regarding the formation of the finger lakes at the end of the younger dryas excludes the possibility of there being large prehistoric creatures living in Seneca lake.
...Unless it was a fry dropped by a bird. And then grew up. (Fish got in that land-locked lake somehow. There are bull sharks in Australia that way, 14ft variety.)
At 3:36 in the video: "Some People say it's bottomless". If it wear bottomless,it would have to go right through the Earth it's self and that's impossible.
It's "bottomless" based on legend and lore. Obviously, its not literally bottomless, I didn't say that to mean literally. It is 651 feet deep in the deepest part around Dresden, according to NAVSEA. The bottomless legend comes from the fact that drowning victims are rarely recovered and the Native Americans believed the lake was a force of nature not to be messed with. Plus, you have drowning victim drowning in Seneca and being found in Cayuga, which adds the mystery of if there are underwater caverns. No lake (or ocean) is ever bottomless. Everyone knows that.
there is many good monster films not logs. lake brosno and lake labinker with numerous scientist seeing even the beasts. two films you can find of them are not logs and not known lake species. One is titanic size the guy films for minutes, the other looks like bronto .There explination skeptics is gas logs. If you watch these two films you will clearly see not logs. both lakes centuries sightings before lochness ,even the mongles said attacked them. a town was removed off labinker because citizens kept going missing and this beast attacks people.If you like see prehistoric dinosaur fish one my shows i have one 1800s was a living dinosaur not whale or any known species.
I just read the story about the Otetiani's encounter with the "object". It was as he described but the boat Captain turned his ship to ram the beast but it sank before he got there. Then they spotted it again and he turned his ship so one of the paddlewheel's struck it and killed it. Using lifeboats and ropes they tried to lift it out of the water but it was too heavy and the carcass sank. No one described it as a large fish.
I don't understand why people back then felt the need to kill something that wasn't even a threat to them or wasn't even trying to harm them. Killing it was so unnecessary.
@@oghash4912 if it's not a threat, then there's no need to kill it. Anyone who does that is just a scared, trigger-happy coward trying to prove his manhood
Odd, some can believe in a sea monster, but about Jesus Christ, who came to earth and lived a perfect life, died a painful death for our sins, and God rose him again? Do they believe in Jesus or just creepy things mentioned in Romans 1?
Seneca Lake. Bottomless. It's a glacial lake that has a bottom. Would people stop seeing monsters every time they see a lake? Seriously. It's getting old.
It has scales on its back. Maybe they found Godzilla😂. Sorry. I want to believe in sea monsters like that but for all we know they’re maybe just average every day sea creatures that we see all the time. We don’t know.
Is this fake news I am a cryptozoology and fish expert. And the one film you keep showing has nothing to do with seneka lake that is a lake monster filmed in Russia in 2013. So although these is records of this creature the filmed showed is not a stick it actually is a real animal you can look up Russian lake monsters and watch it for over 5 minutes swimming around and it is much larger then any known species and maybe some sort of unknown sea snake or eel like creature. Whatever it is very interesting. The Seneca lake creature likely was a relic Giant alligator gar. in 1800s alligator gar were even in some Canadian lakes and the great lakes. So some super sized specimens were living in some lakes and then with people making cottages and traffic etc they just died out. Lake Champlain even likely had a relic population of alligator gar due to even Champlain stated some gar seen were 9 feet long. This seems much larger then typically excepted for needle nose gar. Although it could be possible .it is very unlikely needle nose gar ever have reached that big. Some for sure over 7 feet but that big hmm. No evidence you can find of one that long. However if alligator gar still did inhabit lake Champlain then it could be his statements were true.
I did not make it clear there was more then one film on there from different locals. i am only refering to the one they show for a split second in front of a island. the other photos are from others. Yes many are a weed or stick pulled by idiotic skeptics like nichols etc but just like yourself anyone with a brain can tell a stick ones from a more likley real animal in the water. Lake monsters are many things from sharks to whales even getting up freshwater rivers. Sometimes it is logs or even odd waives can fool some. But others are not this and have a giant historic records going back hundreds of years with exact same descriptions not explained easily by the duck theories etc. nothing wrong being skeptical but to state all are this is silly.
@@Fan_Made_Videos There is some confusion as to this. The sources seem to be mostly lake labinker. However one other source claimed from another lake. You can find it on numerous ones. There is one video called top lake monsters of russia or similar name and the guy lists that film and some others. I think was filmed in 2013 or something like that. Some are very compelling. Others for sure fake. I have seen two from russia that are extremely compelling, one from lake labinker and the other reported to be from lake labinker. This lake also even has sonar readings of a fifty foot living object witnessed by Russian scientist. As well the lake was actually evacuated due to peasants living along it were being attacked by this creature. it seems to like attacking boats. I am doing a new show soon and I cover many other ones besides those few. Scientist north american ones claim log but in two filns I assure you not a log and not any known living sea animal or lake animal world wide would fit what you see.
Sturgeon are rare to see, and explain most of these sightings....but ask the average person and they have no idea what a sturgeon is or how "prehistoric" they look, and most importantly how enormous they get.