Loch Ness Monster's Swedish Cousin Caught on Surveillance Video

Agence France-Presse Published: Saturday, August 30, 2008 Sweden's version of the Loch Ness monster, the Storsjoe, or Great Lake monster, has been caught on film by surveillance videos, an association that installed the cameras said yesterday. The legend of the Swedish beast has swirled for nearly four centuries, with some 200 sightings reported in a lake in central Sweden. "On Thursday at 12:21 p. m., we filmed the movements of a live being. And it was not a pike, nor a perch, we're sure of that," said Gunnar Nilsson, the head of a shopkeepers association in Svenstavik. In the images filmed on Thursday and posted on a Web site dedicated to the Storsjoe (www.storsjoodjuret. nu), a long serpent-like being is seen swimming in the murky waters. "A highly advanced system on one of the cameras detected heat," indicating it was a living being, Mr. Nilsson said. The first sighting dates to 1635 and the most recent to July, 2007, with most speaking of a serpent-like beast with humps, a small cat or dog-like head, and ears or fins pressed against the neck. © National Post 2008 Source & References: http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=682d08df-cd38-4ede-9e58-3592aafebc1e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHiIPD4Qz4w