Daily Mail News – Science & Tech
By ROB WAUGH
Published: 12:49 EDT, 6 June 2026 | Updated: 12:51 EDT, 6 June 2026
A pair of filmmakers believe they may have captured the strongest evidence yet of one of America’s most enduring monster mysteries lurking beneath the waters of Lake Champlain.
The creature, known as Champ, is a legendary lake monster said to inhabit the 125-mile-long body of water that stretches between New York, Vermont and Canada.
Often compared to Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster, Champ is typically described as a massive serpent-like beast or a prehistoric plesiosaur with a long neck, humped back and dark body, which some have dubbed ‘America’s Nessie.’