![]() ![]() "I've spoken to people who saw what they thought was a lake monster, got closer and discovered it was actually a line of otters. It turns out that three or four otters swimming in a line look remarkably like a serpentine, humped creature undulating through the water, very easy to mistake for a single creature if you see them from a distance. Ed Grabianowski plotted the distribution of North American lake monster sightings and then overlaid this with the distribution of the common otter and found a near perfect match. In Ben Radford and Joe Nickell's book Lake Monster Mysteries, the authors attribute a vast number of sightings to otter misidentifications. In many of these areas, especially around Loch Ness, Lake Champlain and the Okanagan Valley, these lake monsters have become important tourist draws. and have undergone what Michel Meurger calls concretizing (The process of turning items, drawings, general beliefs and stories into a plausible whole) and naturalization over time as humanity's view of the world has changed. The stories cut across cultures, existing in some variation in many countries. Older reports often talk about horse-like appearances, but more modern reports often have more reptile and dinosaur-like appearances he concludes that the legendary kelpies have evolved into the present day saurian lake-monsters since the discovery of dinosaurs and giant aquatic reptiles and the popularization of them in both scientific and fictional writings and art. Sjögren claims that the accounts of lake-monsters have changed during history, as do others. ![]() Theories Īccording to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren (1980), present-day lake monsters are variations of older legends of water kelpies. ![]() In the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, entities classified as "lake monsters", such as the Scottish Loch Ness Monster, the American Chessie, and the Swedish Storsjöodjuret fall under B11.3.1.1. Depictions of lake monsters are often similar to those of sea monsters. The most famous example is the Loch Ness Monster. Lake-dwelling entity in folklore The Loch Ness Monster is a famous example of a “lake monster”Ī lake monster is a lake-dwelling entity in folklore. ![]()
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