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Maybe the Creature in the Creek is just a freak of nature, a combination of pebbles and swirling water that makes it look like something I wished it to be (above and insert). The Norwegian media angrily dismissed it, saying that if you believe there is an unknown creature in the picture above you can believe anything; trolls, fairies, pixies, the works... Yet I can´t free myself of the feeling that this really is an unknown creature, looking up at me with that surprised expression in its face, that tells you it has been discovered and revealed for the first time ever.
This is the background to the picture:
Some time between 8 and 9 am on August 9, 2000, I and team member Anders Anderson, from the ongoing expedition GUST2000, which had started on August 1, took a morning stroll on a narrow dirt road along a creek on the opposite side from Sanden camping, which runs down from Lifjall Mountain and out into Lake Seljordsvatnet.
The dirt road leads up to two houses a short distance from the creek, which is about 12 feet wide and has a depth of between two and three feet depending on the drainage and the water level. This day there was very little water in it and the depth was two feet at the most.
SOMETHING WAS MOVING
Shortly before a spot where the dirt road turns away from the creek, which lies in a ravine 12 to 15 feet further down, I saw something moving there that I interpreted as a beaver. I took a few pictures with my Canon camera, which had a 300 mm telephoto lens, but the animal vanished out of sight and was not seen again.
On our way back down, I took an additional 10 pictures, partly because of it´s beautiful wild nature, partly because the "beaver" may have been down there, either partly hidden in the water or behind a rock or a log. However, I didn´t see an animal at all.
The incident with the "beaver" was soon forgotten and Kodak in Oslo, who sponsored GUST at the time, didn´t get the pictures in for development and printing until about one week later. The pictures stayed with Kodak another three weeks and it took until September 18th until I saw the picture in question and decided it portrayed an unknown animal in the creek.
LARGE, BLACK, BULGING EYES
The creature appears to have a rather small, triangular face not more than maybe 4 to 6 inches across and about as long. It has two large, black, bulging eyes and a pointed nose. A knob like appendix is seen on top of the head. The face seems jet black in color while the nose is lighter. It fits very well with a large number of witness descriptions, who all talk about the large eyes and the knoblike appendix on the head, which either looks like a crest or antennas. (It also reminds you a little of a dachshund, doesn´t it?).
On September 28, I went to the creek together with Norwegian freelance journalist Audun Hasvik, who drove me from Oslo to Seljord, and to the exact spot where the picture had been taken. There was more water than before down there but the largest stones in the picture were clearly visible and so was other foliage. No stone or pattern in the creek was found that looked like the creature in the picture.
The next day I held a press conference in Seljord, but Norwegian media refused to believe in the creature. The newspapers didn´t show up at all (having talked to Audun Hasvik, who still was not convinced) and both local radio and TV reported about the creature in the creek with total skepticism.
NO POPULAR EXPLANATIONS
Why did media react they way they did? I have several explanations for this, none of which will be very popular.
Firstly, the serpent are supposed to be roaming the lake, not a shallow creek some 200 meters away.
Secondly, the serpent has been described by witnesses as ugly, frightening, large and a true monster not like the cute little creature that sticks it head up through the water in the creek and almost looks surprised because it´s been found out.
Thirdly, a creature in the creek would verify the old fairy tale of "Nacken", a legendary creature said to inhabit creeks, rivers, streams and other small waters and lure both cattle and children away to an uncertain destiny.
NACKEN WAS A NECK
In old times the fairy tale Nacken was called necken and probably originated from the English word "neck". Nacken was therefore a neck coming out of the water in the creek and to me there´s no doubt what so ever, that this meant an unknown animal. Similar creatures were seen and are still seen on Ireland where they are called "horse eels", which is an even more appropriate name.
The horse eels took and still takes horses and cows grassing on the shores and there are many terrifying testimonies about cattle which vanished without a trace, or was found emptied of their blood! During our expedition to Lough Ree, Ireland, in June 2001 we speculated in giant lampreys as responsible for the abduction and blood sucking, and maybe these where just the animals that in old times were called Nacken!
Skeptics and their likes are probably going to crucify me over the picture above, but as long as they don´t produce any constructive criticism I don´t care. What I am interested in, however, is what our readers think about the picture and the alleged Creature in the Creek. So please mail me and tell me whether you think there is a creature in the picture or not - I reserve the right to publish your opinion but wont use your name if you don´t agree to that.
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"The Creature in the Creek" This photo is supposed to show an "unknown" creature that the photographer mistook for a beaver... however hard I look at the photo I cannot see anything resembling an animal at all!
Weirdly one comment says that "female reporters at a press conference could see the creature, but male reporters could not"... is there such a thing as a creature only visible to women?!? Can any female Forteans see the creature in the photo on the site?
The text says the creature has "large black eyes" which another reader describes as resembling "breathing holes", I cant see anything like that... others have commented that it looks like an otter or like a soft shelled turtle.
Anyone with any software that can "enhance" the image or at least show the outline of the creature? I cant even see anything resembling a simulacra...
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