Cryptozoologist to search Cameron Lake for monster


Westerly News September 17, 2009

Cryptozoologist John Kirk is anxious to find out more about an elusive lake creature people have reported seeing in Cameron Lake for years.

"Our organization has received reports coming from Cameron Lake since 2004," Kirk said in a release. "Witnesses have been describing what looks like a dark creature in the lake."

He will get his chance to find out on Saturday, Sept. 19, when he and his crew plan to look for scientific evidence of a creature -- traversing the lake and attempting to lure it to the surface to get a visual sighting.

Kirk is the co-founder of the BC Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC) and wrote a book called In the Domain of the Lake Monsters.

He is also the chair of the Crypto Safari Organization that sends investigators around the world to search for dinosaurs, lake monsters and Sasquatches, to name a few.

Plans to explore Cameron Lake (on Highway 4, about 120 kilometres northeast of Ucluelet) have been in place since 2007 when Bridget Horvath reported a sighting.

Horvath said she saw a strange wake in the water and what looked like three creatures going in a circle.

In 2004, a woman and her father reported they'd seen a very large, long black creature in the lake.

According to Kirk, one of the original founders of the BCSCC in 1989, British Columbia is the number one place in the world for lake monster sightings.

"There are 39 lakes in BC where some type of creature has been seen," Kirk said.

Kirk spent most of this summer searching for the infamous Ogopogo on Okanagan Lake.

Cryptozoology is the study of cryptids (elusive creatures) and to some scientists, is considered a pseudo-science at best.

However, the BCSCC considers itself a scientific body and, according to its website, follows the accepted principles of orthodox zoology in establishing the existence of new animal species.

For more on this story, including details from Saturday's expedition, check back often to the Westerly's website, www.westerlynews.ca.
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Kirk spent most of this summer searching for the infamous Ogopogo on Okanagan Lake.

Il y aurait donc le monstre de Montauk, celui du Loch Ness, et maintenant le monstre du lac Cameron. Il va en falloir des barques pour explorer tout ça.

Bon, après quelques recherches sur le net (Car je ne connaissais nullement ce lac), il s'avère que ce lac se trouve en Colombie-Britannique (et non au Québec, bien qu'il y a un Lac Cameron aussi, mais c'est pas le même car dans le premier article du haut, on parle bien de celui en Colombie-Britannique)