Something strange is lurking beneath the still waters of Lake Windermere...a hill walker spotted a strange, dark shape he estimates to be 50 feet long with a head like a labrador splashing at the surface of the lake. This report comes just months after claims that a 20foot serpent had been seen in the lake.

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WOW those must be a really good pair of bins to allow him to see it had a head like a labrador from 1,000 feet up!

I have a few theories on these lake monsters (you know they've been spotted all over the world?).
I was going to share them but I think I'll wait and see what everyone else has to say first because I'm interested in that before I go telling my theories.

I still just want to know what bins he was using

I don't think its an acient monstor from the days of the dinosaurs though

Okay well what I will say about this one is this:

Why didn't the people in the boats that were close by (close enough to compare this "monsters" size too) see it as well?

As Kat said, powerful bins from that far! Even so... he doesn't seem able to give much detail about what he saw even though he sounds pretty convinced it was a lake monster.

Yikes! it might be true or not, but if it is a true animal then it needs a lot to feed on ;-)

Anyone up for a swim in lake Loch Ness?

There's one in Lake Okanagan in Canada too, they call it the Ogopogo.

And there Champ too

Oh I'm interested in bigfoot too! Also many sightings across the world.

Well they call them different things and of course they could be different things just like the lake monsters but most descriptions are the same or pretty similar.

Yeah I think I've heard it before. It's probably true!

Some people say that theres a Sea Serpent swimming along the shore at Bognor Beach, havent seen anything apart from the odd jellyfish and underwear...

Could be true! I remember watching on programme that identified a number of marine sea serpents as a species of deep sea fish. Can't remember what the fish was though

From watching programs and research etc, it could be a real creature, although not necessarily what you would call a "monster".
The giant squid for example people have been raving about it for a very long time as a "sea monster" and it features in many books as a vicious monster, no-one actually thought it exsisted until recently.
Are these lake monsters a dinosaur that survived? I'm not sure but I'm inclinded to say no, at least not exactly but perhaps a closer relative to tham than we might think. Perhaps a member or decendant of the

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family.
Dinosaur or simply a creature that we don't yet no of... it is certainly possible.

However I don't think all sights are actually some sort of lake or sea monster.
Some are just a dead tree that's fallen into the lake, as it's rottened... one day it rushes to the surfance one day bobbing around for a few minutes before sinking again.
In some areas there is a theory, they could well be... wait for it.... basking sharks! I haven't researched this much but basically the basking sharks behaviour of swimming nose to tail with one another, with their top fin, top of their tails and nose just breaking the surface of the water... can from a distance look like a lake monster.
Some people say they have seen a creature they cannot explain close up to a boat, huge creature with big scales, short bumps along it's back and prehistoric looking but more fish like than they imagined a lake monster to be. People that's probably a

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. Yes they can grow rather big!

Of course there are other creatures it could be, junk in the water and all, which people get freaked out or excited by when they assume it's a "monster".

Well now you know what I think anyway!

Basking sharks have been mistaken for seamonsters a lor. A partially-decayed one was washed up one time and people thought it was evidence of a living pliosaur. It is possible to see why people thought that, here are a few photos...

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I don't personally think it is a giant marine reptile. For a start, they would need to come up for air fairly frequently so they wouldn't be able to hide for long with the number of tourists around!

Yes I've seen those before, you can see why they think that but in this day and age DNA can quickly give an answer to the questions of what it is.

In some areas it's hard to believe their is such a creatue if they are high tourist areas and also there's sometimes the question of a lake being man made.

I personally think all lake/river monsters are just myths upon people making, I believe their are strange animals out there but I don't believe about lake/river monsters at all.

Probably was a labrador fetching a treetrunk its master had thrown in the lake.