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tatoskok tatoskok-totoskok Explanation: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7mCGX9h... THE CHAMP OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN Something extraordinarily unusual calls America’s sixth largest freshwater lake home. Champ sightings are ancient, predating even the European arrival on this continent. The Abenaki spoke of a creature, known as the Totoskok, that periodically showed itself to hunters and fishing parties in the vicinity of Lake Champlain. The first record of a Champ sighting by a European dates from 1609, by the man who “discovered” the lake itself: Samuel de Champlain. In his travel log he mentions seeing in the lake a large, strange creature, some twenty feet long and as thick as a barrel. Literally hundreds of people have claimed to have spotted the beast over the centuries. The Plattsburg newspaper in the summer of 1819, told of one captain’s sighting of the infamous monster. This article sprung up thousands of relatively similar stories each differing in the predicted size of the creature, continuing into the twentieth century. Most of these sightings were around dusk, leading to the belief that Champ could be nocturnal. However, as time went on the Champ sightings have gotten less lively and reports of sightings became few and far between. Until, in 1977 when the Mansi family witnessed Champ and took photographs that through tests have proven to be authentic documentation of the “monster” of Lake Champlain. Once the Mansi photographs came to light, many people came forward, telling of their encounters with Champ. Whether there is some unidentified animal species living in Lake Champlain or not, four centuries of folklore have sprung out of the belief that a monster lives among us. From the Native Americans who hunted along Champlain’s shores to the modern Americans who vacation there, belief in Champ is still alive and well. |
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tatoskok champ Explanation: I would put "tatoskok" and then explain as a footnote or in parenthesis that it is and indian name for "Champ", the Lake Champlain's monster Lake Champlain's monster is nicknamed "Champ," and has been sighted over 240 times. The 109-mile-long Lake Champlain is also similar to Loch Ness in that ... www.strangemag.com/champ.html Mar 2006 ... Dubbed “North America's Loch Ness Monster,” the purported leviathan of Lake Champlain, “Champ,” has just resurfaced. On Feb. ... www.livescience.com/.../060307_lake_monster.html -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 mins (2010-08-02 08:58:34 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Champ (capital letter) |
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