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B .C. monster, for real?Research team searching for serpentlike Vancouver Island lake creatureISOLATES SOMETHING HUGE, MYSTERIOUSDirk MeissnerTHE CANADIAN PRESS - VICTORIABrigette Horvath knew she saw something strange in Cameron Lake on Vancouver Island two years ago and a team of researchers say she might be right.Was it a fish, an eel or some kind of serpent-like creature?She says she didn’t know. But Horvath grabbed her camera andmanaged to fire off one shot before the batteries failed.The researchers who specialize in looking for so-called crypozoological creatures — in other words, monsters — spent Saturday on the lake probing thedepths with a sonar-like fishfinder.At first, they picked up a couple of large contacts at the bottom of the lake, about 45 metres deep, then something more pronounced on a second pass.’’Something just went ping' on the alarm on the fish finder and we saw this absolutely massive object in the midst of various fish,” said John Kirk, president of the British Columbia Scientific CryptozQolagy Club.They made four more passes and the contact held stable, making it unlikely that it was a school of fish, which tend to scatter eventually, Kirk said.♦ CONTINUED Please see page A2Cameron Lake on Vancouver Island is shown in this handout photo taken by Brigette Horvath. Horvath knew she saw something strange in Cameron Lake two years ago. Horvath grabbed her camera and managed to fire off one shot before the batteries failed. A team of researchers who investigate reports of strange creature sightings around the world are searching the lake about 180 kilometres northeast of Victoria.
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Mon, Sep 21, 2009
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