[Merged] Officials weigh in on Iceland lake monster

[UM-Bot]

A government 'truth commission' has declared that a lake monster in Iceland is a real creature.

The decision was based on a viral video from 2012 which many believe shows evidence of a long serpent-like creature said to inhabit Iceland's Lake Lagarfljót.

Read More: http://www.unexplain...nd-lake-monster

[some new guy]

tourist dollars is the one truth

BEST - Ron

[Jacques Terreur]

Sure, if you live in a country where they build roads around trees or rocks because fairies might live in them, why would you stop to ask twice when somebody tells you that there's a lake inhabited by a giant Monster worm....?

[Jacques Terreur]

well, maybe it IS about luring some tourists there.....

http://news.discovery.com/animals/icelandic-river-monster-121302.htm

[alfonso]

question of the day ...news journalist ..''so how did the worm move when you saw it? what kind of movement did it make?''...the wittnes '' like a snake?''. hahahaha no 5hit..

[Mac E]

Looks like an ice flow to me.

[Paranomaly]

I'm guessing most water snakes don't wear chunks of ice as the video clearly shows.

[paperdyer]

I'm guessing most water snakes don't wear chunks of ice as the video clearly shows.

They do if they're trying to disguise themselves.

[theotherguy]

My Icelandic is pretty weak. How do you pronounce Lagarfljótsormurinn? LAG-arf-ul-YOT-sore-mur-inn?

Edited September 15, 2014 by theotherguy

[Davros of Skaro]

Find someone that makes custom Balsa Wood Fishing Lures and you have your Lake Monster.

[MyOtherAccount]

So it isn't found guarding the gold in the pots at the end of that huge arch in the sky! Perhaps they wouldn't have that floating problem if people wouldn't empty their RVs into the lake.

[seeder]

Yes, it really is Iceland's Nessie! Panel votes that grainy footage captured in 2012 is monster first reported in 1345 (but it may just be a frozen fishing net)

Panel decided by a seven to six majority that the footage was genuine

The decision entitles its author to a small reward

But critics accuse the panel of an obvious stunt to draw tourism

When strange footage emerged of a snakelike creature gliding beneath a frozen lake in Iceland experts suspected something fishy.

But now a panel convened to rule on the authenticity of the film has decided it is indeed a genuine film of Lagarfljótsormurinn - Iceland's equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster.

The video, captured in early 2012 by Hjörtur Kjerúlf, shows a mysterious creature swimming through the cold water of the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal, in east Iceland.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2768884/Yes-really-Iceland-s-Nessie-Panel-votes-grainy-footage-captured-2012-monster-reported-1345-just-frozen-fishing-net.html#ixzz3EKAAJzo5

[crypto-ufologist]

The footage is very unconvincing imo

[+Hammerclaw]

Floating debris moved and shaped by the current.

[Jacques Terreur]

Floating debris moved and shaped by the current.

i think that's the conclusion drawn by everyone except those who have a couple of empty Hotel beds near a lake....