Lake monster

It covers a huge area, and much of its water can conceal what lies beneath the surface.

Was Fox frightened by an animal he couldn't identify, or did he encounter something that didn't fit anything that he knew? The story became one of Utah's enduring lake monsters.

I will say this.

I've never heard a lake monster.

He like rifled around what he claimed as New France as early as the 1530s.

And then we have Samuel de Champlain, early 1600s, European namesake of Lake Champlain, home of Champ the Lake Monster, friend of the show.

Mm-hmm.

The French colonies in North America sort of populated and the business ventures there grew in the rest of the 1600s into the 1700s, well into the 1700s.

It's the Indian guy-

The lake monster

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the, the ba- garbage bag that floats around.

Lake Monster?

Yeah, it's literally a garbage bag.

Yeah.

Yeah, so that one, uh, slips my mind sometimes.

[laughs] Uh, it's called Postcards from a Lake Monster.

Love it.

Um, yeah, it's, uh, it was originally a short story and the publisher liked it so much that they, uh, asked me, "Hey, we think we can make, like a early reader, uh, illustrated kids book out of this." And they did, and it, um...