Cammy the Lake Monster: Nessie's Canadian Cousin?

by Blaine Metzgar | September 22, 2009 at 01:16 pm

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Does the famed Loch Ness Monster, Nessie, have a Canadian cousin? According the the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC) reports have been coming in over the last five years of a supposed lake monster calling Lake Cameron on Vancouver Island, British Columbia its home. The as-yet-unidentified creature has been dubbed Cammy.

John Kirk, co-founder of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, says his organization began cataloguing sighting reports of an odd creature in Cameron Lake about five years ago, when two people reported seeing a long black animal in the water.

"Witnesses have been describing what looks like a dark creature in the lake," Kirk said, adding that British Columbia has more reputed lake monsters than anywhere else in the world.

So here's the scoop, the BCSCC believes Cammy may have been found. While aboard a boat, courtesy of the local tourism board, Kirk spent the day cruising Lake Cameron in search of the cryptid when he looked to the fishfinder and saw a giant mass among a school of fish 60 feet below the surface. Kirk took several passes and followed the mass; he is convinced the mass was not merely a school of fish which would have dispersed.

One woman took a photograph of something odd in the lake back in 2007, describing it as having "a serpent shape" - but also looking like "a large fish." Was it, after all, a large fish?

What do you think? Is Lake Cameron really hiding a lake monster?

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