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Lake Critters 21 Lake Critters 21 Canadian Canadian Parapsychologist and Parapsychologist and Broadcaster Broadcaster Established Link Established Link Between Ongiaras Between Ongiaras Indian Legend of Indian Legend of Niagara’s “Maid of the Niagara’s “Maid of the Mist” and the Existence Mist” and the Existence of Lake Monsters. of Lake Monsters. by by DAZ DAZ Niagara Falls, Ontario: People around the world, particularly in the Northern of a giant water snake that lay at the bottom of Mexico, to the Atlantic Ocean, to Hudson Bay, Hemisphere, claim to see Lake Monsters, the river. Once a year, the monster snake grew and to Lake Superior and beyond. According to however proof of the existence of lake hungry, and at night entered the village and experts, this is the very same path that these Monsters, had not been found… that is until poisoned the water. The snake then devoured Giant Anaconda would have taken as well. Lake now. the dead. Champlain can be accessed by the Richelieu In Scotland, there is the renowned On spirit, Lelawala told her people to River that goes into the St. Lawrence River that "Nessie," but Canada is also rich in lake destroy the serpent. Indian braves mortally starts at Lake Ontario. Monsters and Lake Monster history. wounded the snake on his next yearly visit to Anacondas like to hang out in rivers so In Lake Champlain, a body of water that the village. Returning to his lair on the river, the it would be difficult to estimate the length of is in the Province of Quebec and the State of snake caught his head on one side of the river one seen swimming, without seeing the entire New York, there is a Lake monster called and his tail on the other, forming a semi-circle snake. It's the anaconda's ability to remain "Champ". In Lake Memphremagog in Quebe's and the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. Lelawala partly hidden in the water that makes it difficult Eastern Townships, there is "Memphre." Lake returned to the cave of the God Hinum, where to accurately find (and document) a specimen Monsters have been reported in the Richelieu she reigns as the Maid of the Mist. that exceeds the current world's record. This River in Quebec, Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Lake Recently, research at Serpent's mount partially submerged appearance coincides with Winnipeg in Manitoba, and of course in Lake Provincial Park, near Peterborough, has many lake Monster sightings. Okanogan in British Columbia. revealed the skeletal remains of "Giant The Anaconda has been documented to First Nation folklore also tells of Lake Serpents" that were not indigenous to this part grow as long as 100 feet in length with a mid Monsters or "Great Lake Serpents" that used to of Canada. Experts claim that these remains body girth of 6 to 8 feet. feed on their villagers and upset their boats on were those of Giant Anaconda serpents that Worried about become a "Snake the lakes when fishing causing giant waves. Is made their way to this part of Canada years ago Snack?" Anacondas are members of the boa there any fact to these legends? from Central America, a trip that has been constrictor family of snakes. That means that Canadian Parapsychologist and documented by ancient Native Canadians. they kill their prey by coiling their large, Broadcaster, Rob McConnell, has been able to By the way, there is also a Serpent State powerful bodies around their victims and establish a link between the Ongiaras Indian Park in Ohio, the site of another Archeological squeezing until their prey suffocates. Then the Legend of Niagara's "Maid of the Mist" and the find where giant reptile skeletal remains have snake unhinges its jaw and swallows the victim existence of Lake Monsters. been found. whole. Although they are big and strong enough The legend is that a long ago, the Serpent Mound Provincial Park and the to eat people, they seldom do (but they have peaceful tribe of the Ongiaras lived beside the legends of these "Lake Serpents" are not new to been known to). Anacondas are much more Niagara River. For an unknown reason, Indians members of the First Nations who live in the likely to eat aquatic creatures, such as fish. were dying, and it was believed that the tribe Peterborough area of Ontario. 2000 years ago, Occasionally they have been known to eat : must appease the Thunder God Hinum, who ancient Native people camped, hunted and caimans (a relative of the alligator), other lived with his two sons in a cave behind the fished here. It continues to be a place of great snakes, deer, and even jaguars. Anacondas are Falls. aboriginal significance. On a high point of land rather slow-moving snakes, so they have to rely A first, the Indians sent canoes laden are nine burial mounds that enclose the graves on stealth and the element of surprise to catch with fruit, flowers and game over the Falls, but of Point Peninsula Native people. Of their unsuspecting prey. the dying continued. The Indians then began to significance is the largest mound that has a Is "Bessie" the Lake Monster of Lake sacrifice the most beautiful maiden of the tribe, zigzag or serpentine appearance. It is from this Erie a "Monster" or a Giant Anaconda? Were who was selected once a year during a Mound that the Park gets its name. It is the only Native Canadians and present day boaters and ceremonial feast. One year, Lelawala, daughter one of its kind in Canada. tourists encounters with Lake Monsters or Giant of Chief Eagle Eye was chosen. However, it is not only the people of Anacondas? On the appointed day, Lelawala Canada's First Nations that have reported The facts point to the existence of the appeared on the river bank above the Falls, encounters with these giant creatures, large reptiles and not mythological creatures. wearing a white doeskin robe with a wreath of throughout the Great Lakes Triangle. There Not unlike Bigfoot Sightings, for the woodland flowers in her hair. She stepped into a have been sightings on this once thought to be majority of people around the world, skepticism white birch bark canoe and plunged over the mythological creature starting in the very first will reign until the carcass of a giant snake will Falls to her death. Her father, heartbroken, shipping days on the Great Lakes to the modern be found, and then the mystery of the Lake leaped into his canoe and followed her. day sightings of "Bessie," the Lake Monster of Monster will be accepted for once and for all. Hinum's two sons caught Lelawala in lake Erie. WATCH & LISTEN TO THE ‘X’ ZONE their arms, and each desired her. She promised Ancient Native people were the first to MONDAY TO FRIDAY FROM 10 PM - 2 to accept the one who told her what evil was use the waterway as an important travel and AM EASTERN AT killing her people. The younger brother told her trade route. The route extended to the Gulf of WWW.XZONETV.COM