This must be Monster Day...first Bigfoot and now Selma. First off - news of the odd...(aka Bigfoot news):

The latest news is that supposedly some construction workers sighted a 12 ft. tall Sasquatch at the edge of some woods that border their construction site just outside of Washington D.C. (for the record, they're building yet another mall.) It was reported that it left behind 15 inch long footprints.

The Project Chief made this statement: "We are focused on completing the construction of this mall for a November opening - Bigfoot notwithstanding." There was no word from the Sasquatch.

I think this is the 3rd Bigfoot story in a month - one from Oregon; one from Florida (the Skunk Ape) and now D.C. Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

There was a brief story on some 'monster hunters' in Norway who are going to lower a trap into a local lake in effort to catch 'Selma' - the Scandanavian version of the Loch Ness Monster. At least they seem to be going about it a bit more logically - they are just going to put the trap in one place for two weeks.

I could never figure out how they ever figured on catching anything in Loch Ness. They always dragged whatever cage they had at the moment behind some boat. I mean - what would you do if you saw and heard this huge; noisy, gaping thing coming at you? Wouldn't you get as far away as possible and as fast as possible?

You'd think they'd get a clue - even on the episode of Nova where they followed a team for several weeks trolling the Loch with cameras and sonar (for all intents and purposes, that's what they were doing - whether it was with a camera or otherwise), they just kept taking these big noisy boats from one end of the lake to the other. All they managed to see was one school of fish. What is it that everyone says when you're out fishing? "Shhh! Don't make so much noise - you'll scare off all the fish!"

Get a clue people!

I need to refresh my memory on this but there is an Indian story about one of the lakes up north (I think it's Ogopogo, but not sure) about how they always carried an offering to the lake monster so that it wouldn't upset their canoes or eat their horses as they swam behind the canoe.

The point to this ill remembered story is this: quiet ship = monster sighting. Noisy ship = nothing. Get it?