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Have you ever found yourself on a Wikipedia deep dive on the weird side of the internet? In this show - weird thing enthusiasts Ryan and Shane take turns presenting their latest fascinations to each other covering everything unusual, unexplained, and unhinged! This week's topic: Champ, Lake Champlain's own cryptid!
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I bet Champ is legally protected because they don't want people shooting at random stuff they see moving in the water in an attempt to kill a mythical monster
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“MAIS NON. A French colonizer could not be deterred with a fuck ton of beaver furs on the line.”
The impeccable humor, Shane. Chefs kiss.
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As a paleontologist that first theory was so insane 😭😭 shane basilosaurus is an early whale, like a mammal ! The marine reptile that looks similar you’re thinking of is a mosasaur
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Vermonter here. The lake used to be much larger and was called the Champlain Sea. Whale skeletons have been found around the lake.
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Ryan's episodes are more serious while Shane's are super chaotic and I love it.
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" a French colonizer could not be deterred with a f*ck-ton of beaver pelts on the line....." Literally wheezing
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First off, Shane looks adorable in that Champ costume and I love how chaotic his episodes get. Second, I'm so glad that they've covered Champ, one of my favorite cryptids. Tales and theories of these lake monsters have always fascinated me.
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My parents actually owned the store that commissioned the fucked up statue of Champ at 9:29! They got it built about 16 years ago or so to try and attract customers to the store! (It was an old gift shop with a creemee stand (creemees are what we call soft serve in Vermont)) that shut down a while ago because of rent or something :(
It cost $4000, its internals are 2 soloflex exercise machines (one for the tail, one for the neck), and its eyes used to be made of glass, but someone stole them and they replaced them with the fucked up painted eyes.
The poor statue got flooded one year, and you could only see its weird lil head poking out of the water...
So weird seeing this in this episode! It ignited a lot of memories of me climbing on it!
Also, my parents claim he's been repainted, and that he used to look better when he was first built, but I remember it always looking really silly.
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My personal favorite theory for lake and sea monsters like Champ is that they are actually the ghosts of dinosaurs instead of surviving creatures. Not because it's more likely than people mistaking driftwood for living things, but just because its more fun :P Great video as always, Watcher team!
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As someone whose father was a swim coach, and who has many photos of him swimming across lakes in Algonquin, that photo immediately looked like the hip and arm of a front crawl.
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During the "Champ noises", my 18 year old son was walking down the stairs and couldn't see what I was watching. 😂 He stopped before taking the last few steps and asked if it was ok for him to come down. 🤣🤣🤣 I was so confused about what he was talking about. He just said, "I thought you were watching something...different."🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Came for the mystery, stayed for the madness, which sums up my entire life as a fan of these doofus (I love them).
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Something I feel people always forget in relation to sea 'monsters' is that many aquatic animals live much longer than land animals! Whales can live over 150 years, and other sea creatures like clams can live over 500. It's very possible that any of these cryptids are endangered species of animals that have that kind of longevity, and the ones spotted in the 1800s are still alive now, maybe even the last few of their kind. I feel like if they had the kind of senses like a shark, they could hear someone approaching from miles away and always stay out of sight.
I also find it interesting that these cases never turn up any other huge, known animals that can explain it, it's always hypothetical! I'd think if all these sea monster stories were just unusually large fish, they'd find a lot more at least close to the size when searching the waters.
Amazing video as always!
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That daft punk sequence was so funny lmfao. “Around The Lake, Around the lake”
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I grew up on Champlain and inherently I still see it every day. Can't say I've ever seen champ, but my grandfather gave his testimony on witnessing it back in the day. He's an ex-military, rather no nonsense guy so it's always a little wild when he starts talking about witnessing cryptids in the lake.
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As a local, I have to say that we genuinely love Champ. If someone tried to poach our monster we would absolutely enact purge rules to stop them. Great vid!
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i'd like to see a ghost files-esque show about the boys hunting cryptids! it would be fun to see the roles reversed, ryan becoming the skeptic and shane the believer!
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As a Scot, I never thought I’d ever learn about America’s Loch Ness monster. Nessie will always have a little place in my heart as I went on boat trips to try see him when I was younger with my parents all the time (sadly haven’t seen him), so thank you for sharing the story of your little monster
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Ryan: covers actual crimes and misdeeds Shane: covers whatever might involve a silly little guy
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