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 Champ Camp at Lake Champlain This August treat yourself or your entire family to a fun-filled weekend with Believe It Tour at Champ Camp along Lake Champlain in beautiful Vermont.
Join Believe It Tour for this cryptozoology inspired camping adventure that everyone will enjoy. Whether you are an experienced researcher or someone just looking to learn more about the local legends around Lake Champlain’s very own lake monster, Champ, there’s something for everyone at this unique weekend extravaganza. Also in keeping with Believe It Tour’s strong environmental commitment we’ll be promoting an eco-friendly camping experience this year.
August 12-14, 2011 Button Bay State Park, Vermont
The exciting activities planned include lectures, evidence gathering workshops, educational demonstrations, a cookout, arts and crafts, and a 1½ hour boat cruise around Lake Champlain. All modules for Champ Camp are ala carte, so you can pick and choose what you want to do to customize your experience. This customizable format will allow you time to explore the lake and surrounding nature areas on your own via canoe, hiking, or biking. The campground also has a swimming pool and play ground if you want to stay close to camp. If you’re lucky you might even catch a glimpse of Champ if you decide to take a relaxing walk along the lake.
There is a limited number of VIP camp sites reserved next to the base camp, first come first serve. Other spots available through Vermont’s Button Bay State Park campground. Hotels are also available nearby. To lock in a VIP spot or to get tickets for any of the other functions visit: believeittour.com/champ_camp
 Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania Home to Ray Nessie may be the big name in the cryptozoology world when it comes to lake monsters, but we have many legends of our own right here in the United States. With all of the event promotions around Believe It Tour’s “Champ Camp – Weekend with a Lake Monster” I thought it would be fun to take a look at American lake monsters this 4th of July weekend.
Champ is the name given to the mysterious creature said to be lurking in the waters of Lake Champlain located between New York, Vermont, and Canada. There have been over 300 documented sighting of the lake monster with a mass sighting by 86 people during a lake cruise in July of 1984 on the Spirit of Ethan Allen. Sightings of Lake Champlain’s lake monster have been reported as far back as the 1600s.
In addition to Champ, Believe It Tour has explored several other famous areas where lake creature sightings have been reported. You might recall our previous report on the Flathead Lake Creature of Montana or the one on Tarpie, the Lake Tarpon Monster, in Florida from the 2008 Summer Tour. In 2009, during the Weird, Wacky, Wild California Tour, we were excited to meet the creator of Tahoe Tessie, Bob McCormick. Tahoe Tessie was a name Bob came up with so that his children and their friends wouldn’t be afraid to swim in the lake after reports of Lake Tahoe having a large, unknown monster hiding in the depths of the mountain lake.
This year, during a couple of road trips, we were able to make a few side stops to research different lakes and gather information for future exploration and investigations of lake monster sightings. One such stop was in Darien, Georgia where they have their own resident sea serpent, Altie or Altamaha-ha. After exploring the area and learning more about Altie, we decided to include further investigation into the sightings and legend of this river monster on the upcoming “Quest for Eternal Youth” trip.
The other spot we explored was in Pennsylvania with Raystown Ray, the lake monster that allegedly lives in Raystown Lake located in Huntingdon County. This lake monster was even featured in a recent production for the SYFY Channel. The first documented sighting of Ray was in 2006, but according to locals the sightings actually go back much further.
Other creatures that are on our list of upcoming cryptid adventures are South Bay Bessie, the lake monster swimming in the waters of Lake Erie, and a Chesapeake Bay monster named, Chessie.
Do you know of other lake monsters or sea serpents you we should look for on future adventures? We’d love to hear from you, so post your comments below.
Since tomorrow is Father’s Day and sometimes Dads can be the most difficult people to find the perfect gift for, Believe It Tour has a few suggestions to make it a little bit easier.
 Search for Champ on Lake Champlain Is your Dad an adventurous type that likes to get out in the woods to track Sasquatch or out on the lake to search for lake monsters? Then send him to Champ Camp this summer. You can even sign yourself up and spend the time bonding with Dad while learning about the creature that’s said to live in Lake Champlain or while taking a relaxing boat cruise around this beautiful location in Vermont.
Special thanks to our friends at Cryptomundo for their support during this event.
More info: Champ Camp July 23-25 Button Bay Vermont — Fun for the whole family
 Believe It Tour Merchandise If you are just looking for a unique gift that doesn’t involve any travel please visit the Believe It Tour Store. There you’ll find all kinds of merchandise from hats and shirts with ghosts and aliens to original art of characters like Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster. You can even get him a plaster cast of a Bigfoot track from the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film site.
Plus if you order today we’ll help by offering you a custom pdf file that you can print out and use a Father’s Day card until your order arrives in the mail.
Shop online today at: Believe It Tour Store
Happy Father’s Day!
 Champ Camp Lake Champlain This July 23-25 treat yourself or your entire family to some old fashioned summer camp fun centered around the legend of “Champ” the famous lake monster of Lake Champlain.
For the family or individual that’s interested in cryptozoology and creatures like Champ, Believe it Tour is promising a weekend that any level believer will enjoy. Together with Cryptomundo we will have an exciting schedule of events that campers can sign up for.
Some of the extras we’re planning include a 1½ hour narrated scenic lake cruise on the Spirit of Ethan Allen, which had the largest mass sighting of Champ in 1984. We’ll also have a lecture, evidence gathering tips, educational demonstrations, arts and crafts, campfire stories and so much more. There are lots of fun activities planned, but everything is optional with plenty of free time mixed in.
In your free time you can explore beautiful Lake Champlain and Button Point Natural Area, a small mature hardwood forest. You can take a hike, bring a mountain bike, or rent a canoe, kayak, or rowboat to experience this amazing area. Fishing is also allowed at the lake. The park even has a play area and a swimming pool with lifeguards.
Advanced VIP Tickets are available for $45. Price includes a spot at one of the VIP camp sites, the lake cruise on the Spirit of Ethan Allen, and the Believe It Tour workshops. Camping gear and food are not included. Space is limited, so reserve yours today to be part of the fun.
Use the PayPal button to reserve your VIP space.
For additional information visit believeittour.com/events
 Manatee Tail or Muck Monster (photo courtesy: FWC) For those of you that follow us on twitter and facebook you’ll know I just returned from a road trip down to Florida. Some exciting stops were made along the way to gather information and meet with several people in preparation of future Believe It Tour adventures.
Tonight as I sat down to research Altie, one of the creatures I learned about while passing through Darien, Georgia, I came across news from the WPTV site in West Palm Beach, Florida. Apparently, Florida Fish and Wildlife biologists think they have solved the mystery of the sea monster known as the Muck Monster. News of this underwater creature was spread on the internet and featured on an episode of MonsterQuest.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has discovered a manatee who’s tail had been severely disfigured by a boat propeller. After the injury the manatee’s tail healed in such a way that there were three parts rather than the normal single flat tail. This deformity causes an unusual wake on the surface of the water as the manatee swims.<
Could this be the answer or do you believe that there’s still an unknown creature lurking in the waters of the Lake Worth Lagoon?
 According to a recent story in The Westmoreland Gazette a search is being mounted this month to the find England’s famed lake monster. The creature, known as Bownessie, allegedly lives in the depths of Lake Windermere. Lake Windermere is the largest fresh water lake in England at 11miles in length. Windermere is interested as it’s a long, narrow ribbon lake, which is a lake formed from the ice age through the glaciation period. This always leads to speculation that some ancient creatures became trapped when the lake was formed.
A search team will undertake the task of locating the creature begins on September 19, 2009. The team will include Dean Maynard, a celebrity psychic, and photographer Linden Adams. In 2006 Linden was the first photographer to capture the lake monster with his camera, which further supported a sighting a university professor, Steve Burnip, had ealier that year. Bownessie has been spotted many times over the years, but has proven as elusive as the world famous Loch Ness Monster.
Will the team find Bownessie or will the creature remain as mysterious as Bigfoot or the Yeti?
 The news of the day in the cryptozoology world is that a chupacabra has finally been found in Texas. The chupacabra has long been the subject of mysterious sightings and many unexplained tales. Supposedly, chupacabras are creatures typically described as wild dogs that have almost lizard-like features and they are known to attack livestock, particularly goats. Reported sightings of these creatures have been primarily in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. One area with a large number of sightings has always been Texas where the reported chupacabra was allegedly found.
The man in possession of the creature is Jerry Ayer, who is the owner of a local taxidermy business. When you see the video footage of Ayer showing some of the creature’s odd features it does make the viewer feel like maybe this isn’t a neighborhood dog with mange or a typical wild canine. According to Ayer he plans to preserve the creature and donate it to a local museum.
I hope this creature really is the mythical chupacabra that everyone has talked about and quested after for years. If it is then it lends more credence to the existence of other things like Bigfoot and lake monsters. I sincerely hope it isn’t just a publicity stunt, which would be just one more negative blow to the cryptozoology world.
Stay tuned for the latest developments.
Last week a new video of a strange sighting in the water of Lake Champlain near Oakledge Park in Burlington, Vermont was posted on youtube. With all the enhanced versions of the footage and all the discussions going on, we want to know what your opinion is.
Is this video by Eric Olsen — Champ?
 In the next week or two Believe It Tour will be offering something new and exciting for its fellow believers. We will be starting a monthly literature review where books that explore topics like cryptozoology, the paranormal, extraterrestrials, folklore, or monsters will be featured and reviewed. Our hope is that through the reviews it will be a good way for you to learn about new authors or interesting topics you’ve never explored before. This might be a good introduction for you if you’ve only been exposed to the paranormal or extraterrestrial worlds, but have always wondered about Bigfoot or lake monsters.
We know you’ll be so excited at this new feature we’ll even make it easy for you to get your hands on a copy of the books by providing some easy to use links. We’re also open to suggestions from readers since one of the concepts behind Believe It Tour is about meeting new folks and sharing information. If there is a book you’ve been curious about or a great author you’d like to share feel free to send an e-mail to diana@believeittour.com with your suggestions.
Look for the March book review coming soon.
Perhaps the next Believe It Tour road-trip should be down in South America throughout Argentina.
While reading my news alerts I noticed a few articles and photos related to an alleged Lake Monster said to inhabit Nahuel Huapi Lake in Argentina. With reported sightings since the 1890s, the “Nahuelito” is described as a giant serpent.
As I was reading different sites about the history of this creature, for some reason I remembered another story not too long ago to come out of Argentina. One that still sticks out in my head. Who doesn’t remember that creepy gnome video that went viral? Again Argentina. Hoax or no hoax, it got everyone talking.
That is when I thought maybe there is something going on down there. Another quick search and I found that Argentina is having a slew of UFO sightings.
All setting the stage for when Believe It Tour goes international. Argentina might have to be stop number one.
What other creatures, stories, reports do you know about Argentina? Please comment so we can get a list going.
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