Lake Cryptid Video
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 28th, 2007
Here is the Norwegian so-called “Sea Serpent” (apparently a Lake Monster?) video footage.
Please see the previous post here for the background details.
What do you think?
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The setup of the video seems contrived — playing baseball in the dark and filming it? I suppose they could be testing a new camera, but still fishy. Also, the video ends too abruptly. Just as the cameraman was getting a steady shot of the “creature” the clip ends and we’re left with the inevitable blob. Wouldn’t you have continued filming the thing until it went out of view? It reminds me too much of the “yowie” video a while back.
>>The setup of the video seems contrived — playing baseball in the dark and filming it?>Also, the video ends too abruptly. Just as the cameraman was getting a steady shot of the “creature” the clip ends and we’re left with the inevitable blob. Wouldn’t you have continued filming the thing until it went out of view?
Kind of hard to tell, given that youtube videos are usually so pixelated, but the object certainly has the stereotypical humped “serpent” shape. The object seems to be moving to the left of the screen, cause it is leaving a trail in the water, but the object itself doesn’t seem to be moving in any way that would propel it under its own power.
Set-up seems contived as others have mentioned. Why would you play catch, in the dark, holding a video camera in the other hand?
Footage is blurry and stops immediately after focusing on the object in question, also as other have mentioned.
I would say this is suspect, probable hoax. (Sometimes I don’t feel comfortable giving feedback on these, because hoaxers paying attention may use the comments to come up with better hoaxes.)
Looks like 2 guys in a kayak.
Could be just about anything.
I would like to know more about the lake and its history of sightings.
The Setup is very contrived, playing catch in the dark. The camera appears to bounce around just enough to put the “thing” out of clear view. The video ends just as it is in focus. It is classic YouTube quality, making it all the less credible. The hoaxes make my fun little hobby that is cryptozoology a bit less fun. I’m not calling this an outright hoax, but I wouldn’t bet the house on it.
The problem with this video is that they went into the digital zoom of the camera. You see something that seems like a head, but then it goes into the digital zoom and it could be just be about anything, a dog, a deer, any medium to large sized animal. The camera is in NightShot (possibly a Sony digital with super night shot?) at the first when they are playing catch then they switch to the normal mode to film the “creature”. This is sketchy footage at best. I would like to know more about the lake and the region its located in. The history and such behind the lake.
Two guys in Norway throwing a baseball around? Looks fishy to me.
yeah, why arent they kicking a footy around? haha
That’s like, soooooo bogus! Playing catch in the near dark? A third party filming playing a casual game of catch? A sea serpent with a loop of hump “that doesn’t undulate” streaming by. Bad effort guys.
Blair Nessie Project.
shovethenos is right. I’m not telling them how to improve this. Just telling them to go looking for a cryptid that really exists.
(Sorry. Bad Blobsquatch Day.)
I think it’s a hoax but even if it isn’t, what good is a glimpse of a vaguely lake-monsterish blob?
I miss Doc Shiels.
My video works this time.:-)
Video too dark to see anything.
A video of the only baseball in Norway.
Having spent an even weirder than normal period of my life in that part of the world, I know from personal experience that when you haven’t got access to a telly, kids’ games can suddenly seem deeply engrossing; and as for playing such games in the Norwegian dark, my experience is human eyes adjust to the conditions far better than videocams seem to.
It could be a set-up, but I err towards it being authentic.
As for the ‘serpent’, it looks to me to have almost pig-like ears, before it goes out of focus, so I’d plump for a hog or a dog.
Are you kidding me? Remote whatever…
It’s a moose, or as it’s called in Europe, an elk (alces, at any rate). I’ve seen this before. The typical palmate antlers for a relatively young male. It looks like it’s still in velvet, late spring, early summer, and that would jive nicely with the fact that our two guys playing out for a bit of a barbeque at the lake cottage and are simply taking advantage of the long daylight following the sun-starved months of winter they’d just come through. Baseball? Rounders? Just plain catch…the pitcher is holding a video camera and so I can believe the catch would be off the target.
That is 40 seconds I will never get back….
What a joke. Thanks for the laugh. 🙂
Everyone has pretty much said what i was going to say. I don’t know how they do it over there, but I usually don’t play catch with a camcorder in one hand. It feels very staged. In addition, the video is so pixelated and it is so hard to see what they are looking at, that in the end this is simply not acceptable as evidence of anything other than a thousand things that could have been floating on the water’s surface.
Truly bad acting in the “set-up” not a chance this was a real situation.