Weak Are The Champ Puns

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2013

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The shores of the lake were packed with strangers looking to catch a glimpse of the beast. A $50,000 reward was issued for its capture. Newspapers around the world carried the story of the strange creature that was said to lurk beneath these waters. Loch Ness? No—this is 1880s Vermont and the monster is alleged to be living in Lake Champlain. in this episode of MonsterTalk, Robert E. Bartholomew joins us to discuss his latest book, The Untold Story of Champ: A Social History of America’s Loch Ness Monster. READ episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	There were sightings and the story spread.
0:50.0	People gathered around the lake to search for the monster. Newspapers carry the story around the world.
0:56.0	A $50,000 prize was offered to anyone who could kill or capture the beast.
1:01.0	And all of this, a half century before Nessie would have become the
1:04.8	world's most famous Lake Monster, right here in America, the story of Champ.
1:09.1	It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.
1:14.4	A giant hairy creature, part 8, one man.
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1:25.0	It's a creature known as the Larkness monster. Yeah. Monster Talk. Welcome to Monster Talk.
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