This video footage of this odd object or perhaps creature was taken at the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal in east Iceland. Many believe this may be footage of a snake like monster called Lagarfljótsormurinn that is said to live in lake Lagarfljót. The lake monster Lagarfljótsormurinn is said to be Iceland’s equivalent to the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland.
Sighting and reports of the creature go back all the way to 1345. A legend linked to the creature claims it was at first a tiny worm which was placed on a ring of gold so it could make the gold grow. But when the ring owner returned she was terrified to find that the worm had grown and not the gold so she tossed both the ring and worm into Lagarfljót and the worm continued to grow.
Whether or not this is actual footage of this mysterious creature and evidence of its existence is still up for debate. Some skeptics who don’t believe such a creature exist say the video could show nothing more then a torn fishing net. Here is the actual video taken so you can decide for yourself what has been captured.
The last thing Darlene Thompkins expected to see on her holiday was something she referred to as the ‘Ootsa Lake monster’.
Thompkins who is holidaying in Burns Lake with her family from Edmonton, said she named the mysterious sighting in Ootsa Lake a monster because she didn’t know what else to call it.
Thompkins and her granddaughter were wading in the water near the Ootsa Lake spillway last week, while her friend George sat on the shore.
“A plane flew over and we watched that go by, it looked like the pilot was doing some sort of training exercise, then when we looked back down there was a big wave in the water,” she said.
Thompkins said the wave struck her as being unusual at the time so she watched the large ripple in the water about eight to 10 metres from where she and her granddaughter were standing.
Thompkins then said she and her granddaughter saw a head appear out of the water.
“It looked like a huge snake head ,,, and it was a dark grey colour,” she said.
“I called out to George to come and look, but he said to come out of the water and was a little scared. I didn’t think about being scared because I was trying to see what it was, I grabbed my video camera and recorded but I was in a hurry and the focus was zoomed in so the footage is blurry,” she said.
Thompkins then grabbed a camera to take a picture of the creature and snapped a shot.
“It looks further away in the photo that what it was …. we saw it much closer,” she said.
“We saw it twice, then another one came up beside it and a third one came too,” said Thompkins adding that the creatures were very long like a snake.
“You could see the head while they were swimming along then further back there was another part of it – like a hump …. I can’t stop thinking about what we saw and wondering what it was,” she added.
“My uncle said it was probably a sturgeon, but this creature was swimming along with its head out of the water …. right up and out of the water …. and it was really big,” she said.
“I wish I knew what it was, I have heard other people say they have seen something similar ….. these lakes are so big, you would never know what is living in them,” she added.
Cammie, the purported Cameron Lake monster, has made its presence known once again.
This time the creature was sighted by Coombs resident Kim MacDonald and her eight-year-old son Tristan, who were driving towards Port Alberni on just after 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
“I had just picked my son up from school and we were driving towards Port Alberni and were getting towards the far end of the lake when something kept catching my eye,” MacDonald said. “At first I just thought it was a bird skimming across the water.”
However, as she got closer to the disturbance, that all changed in a hurry.
“There was an enormous splash, like when someone jumps into the water,” she said.
Where the splash had been, she said, there was now a large object — something that didn’t look like a log. To her, it looked alive.
“It was big,” she said. “My son said, ‘Oh my God, what’s that mum?’”
Fortunately, MacDonald was at a spot where it was possible to pull over to the side of the highway and she did.
“The head, if that’s what it was, was huge, bigger than a beaver,” she said. “I grabbed my camera and hopped on top of my truck.”
MacDonald was able to capture about a second and a half of video before she switched the camera to picture mode and snapped one shot before whatever it was sank out of view.
“After I took that picture it was gone,” she said. “I drive past there all the time and I’ve never seen anything like that before. It was round and big. My heart was pounding for a long time.”
The object or creature did not re-appear and MacDonald and her son continued on to Port Alberni.
“When I came back later I kept looking for it, really looking, but it was gone,” she said.
MacDonald has no theories about what she saw, although she has a couple of ideas about what it wasn’t.
“I think it’s definitely not a fish or a beaver,” she said.
Cameron Lake has long been reputed to have some form of large creature living in it, with numerous reports over the years of brief sightings of strange ripples and other disturbances in the water. The lake made national news last fall when a team of Vancouver cryptozoologists made an expedition to Cameron Lake to investigate.
