Plesiosaur-Like Sea Monster Uncovered In Argentina | Boogeymen | Absolute Sci-Fi

Doorway into Argentina's Patagonia region, the city of San Carlos de Bariloche lies at the foot of the Andes, bordering Chile, some 1,640 kilometers or 1,020 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1890 by Swiss settlers as a holiday resort, Bariloche now prospers as a tourist town of roughly 130,000 inhabitants. Surrounded by breathtaking natural beauty, the city stretches out along Lake Nahuelhuapi in the heart of the national park of the same name. But this scenic paradise hides a dark mystery. Nahuelhuapi Lake, fed by water from the Andean glaciers, houses a strange creature. It doesn't have scales, it's like elephant skin. It's gray on top, dark, and as it gets to the belly, it's lighter. And it has fins. And it has a very thin tail, which acts as a rudder. It has a very high neck, and a small head. And I estimate it to be about 12 meters long. Huge. When I saw it, with the binoculars, I looked for the encyclopedia, quickly, to see the drawings that I have of the encyclopedia. Then I said, ah, you are a pretosaur. Everyone said, the monster of the lake. Why monster? So I say, it's a grandfather, a prehistoric animal. And since then, it's called Nahuelito. Nahuel, the lake. Carolina Zirn has lived in Bariloche since the 1950s. Originally from Buenos Aires, Carolina settled in this eccentric area before it was fully developed, attracted by her love of nature and the breathtaking scenery. Today, as every day for the last 65 years, this nonagenarian spends her leisure time contemplating the mystery of Lake Nahuelhuapi. Over the years, she says she has witnessed three apparitions. Blas Chic comes from one of Bariloche's founding families. The owner of a shipping company, he has a monopoly on the transit of vehicles, fuels and heavy loads to the four communities of Lake Nahuelhuapi. He's been sailing the lake for over 30 years and also claims to have seen Nahuelito. The magnitude was very surprising. He kept an eye on us for an estimated 20 minutes, half an hour. It was a coincidence that I had not been with him because I accompanied him quite often to the trips he made. I was almost 9, 10 years old and when he came home to comment on what had happened, I said, how could I miss it? I also had the feeling of fear the following times that I accompanied him on the boat. Well, always being aware of the colors, of the movements that arose as you went along the lake. Lake Nahuelhuapi is of glacial origin. Its name, given to it by the Native American Mapuche peoples, means Lake of the Tiger. It was said that on the island that we see here in the background there were pumas and that's why they called it the Island of the Tigers or the Island of the Lions. When we talk about Nahuelito, we are still talking about something unknown. Many believed that there was a plesiosaur in this place and it is very difficult. The neighbors talk about Nahuelito with a lot of affection. I have not had the opportunity to see Nahuelito as some people claim to have seen it. I have seen things that I cannot know if they are really physical facts that occur due to some chemical reaction on the surface. Surely it has not been an animal, much less. This is a lake that has its mysteries. I am lucky to live on the coast of Lake Nahuelhuapi. I see, especially at night, interesting things, luminescence in the lake. You see strange things, let's say. Patagonia, over the years, has become a place full of magic and mystery. The first known stories speak of a place full of mystery, full of death. In the maps of antiquity, it was depicted as the country of the devil. San Carlos de Bariloche was, in its early days, a settlement of nomadic peoples, thousands of years ago. Over time, it became a small village that was an agricultural and livestock colony. Over time, tourism marked the economic direction of the city and it became what it is today. In short, it is a place like a mountain village where I am proud to live. It is this wild and mysterious side to Patagonia that pushed Carolina Zern to change her life in the 1950s. When I arrived here 50 years ago, Bariloche did not exist. It was a village. Everything was unexploded. There was no electricity, no telephone, no cable, nothing. After the first mention of a strange apparition in Lake Nahualhuapi over 100 years ago, Nahualito has been rather quiet. The first time was in 1910. The second time was in 1936. The third time was in 1957. The fourth time was in 1986. And the last time was in 2006. At this time, talking about a beautiful village that went extinct 65 million years ago is a bit difficult. They will take it as a very crazy thing. And I was not the only one who saw it, because I saw two more people who saw it. But I didn't want to say anything because here, when you see something extraordinary, people say, I take too much. Let's say that the preciousness of Nahualito gave this place a resonance. In other words, Bariloche grew up with Nahualito. Before, it was lived in another way. It was lived from lake fishing, from crops. Now, Bariloche lives from tourism. Once Nahualito settled in people's minds, many people from Buenos Aires, many tourists, many people from other parts of the world wanted to come and see that monster. The first peoples conceived of the Tiger of the Lake as mysterious and indestructible. The Mapuche talk of a mythical being that haunted all of Patagonia. They called him El Cuero. The ancient Mapuche people, who inhabited this area and still do, had a very particular legend, which was the legend of the leather. They saw a leather floating in the lake that was taken to the animals. Through that, it became popular. The relationship between the monster began in 1910, when for the first time a man called George Garrett, who was the first to actually see the monster, he said he had seen a leather floating in the lake that was seven meters long. This news spread quickly. People started talking about the animals that could be found in the United States. They said, yes, we always said that in Patagonia there could be antediluvian animals. And, of course, it had to appear who said, I saw him, Martin Sheffield, a typical North American gold digger and plunderer, a character of those, right? Martin Sheffield was an American from Texas, supposedly married to a Native American woman. Described at the time as a cunning jester, the alleged monster hunter sent a letter to the director of the Buenos Aires Zoo asking him to finance an expedition to capture the animal. Although the expedition returned empty-handed, a local Bariloche newspaper printed a photo of a captured Nahuelito, forgetting to specify that the photo was taken at a carnival. It's a carnival. It's a carnival mask. It's the biggest joke ever made in this region in more than a century. And it was for those carnivals that the carriage in the shape of a plesiosaur appeared for the first time in the center of the city, crossing Mitre Street. And from there, the legend or myth of Nahuelito came to life and was present in the traditional or cultural collection of the city of Bariloche. In the first carnivals of Bariloche, one of the elements that dominated the stage in the most ancient street of Bariloche, the only one at that time, was the figure of the plesiosaur, of Clemente Onelli or Martin Sheffield. That huge figure appeared, walking down the streets, and that's how this myth, truth or reality, which is our famous and already beloved Nahuelito, Because you start to love a character you don't know. But it became a rich story for this region and an element of tourist promotion that no one had suspected. The arrival of the railroad, the legend of the monster of Lake Nahuel Guapí, and everything else, made a contingent of tourists come to the area. I even tell you more, to get to know the area, because arriving in Bariloche at that time was not very easy. At that time, the pencils to write were made of wood with a little plate in front. Some were made that had the head of the plesiosaur and all the boys in the schools wanted to have a plesiosaur pencil. There were cigars marked plesiosaur and even a tango, which I show you here. The plesiosaur. The hoax about the capture of Nahuelito has not prevented newspapers from reviving the mystery of the lake monster. And news comes out. More tourists saw the phenomenon of Nahuel Guapí. New testimonies about the strange vision. Of this, there are notes and notes. Nahuelito 2. A neighbor, a dear neighbor, put the name Nahuelito. Nahuelito made his first appearance in the summer of 1994. Notes and notes. Another strange sighting in Lake Nahuel Guapí. There was a boom of apparitions between the 70s and the 80s. For me, all this type of animal exists and I don't base it on scientific evidence. Because if I have to base it on scientific evidence, I have to say no, that it doesn't exist. For his part, Miguel Ángel Rossi is currently filming a documentary in order to debunk once and for all the phenomenon of Nahuelito. This lake has a depth that was registered many years ago of 500 meters. But the most recent studies indicate that there may be places of more than 800 or almost 1000 meters. The sightings of Nahuelitos have historically had three places where they have been seen more. There is a place called the area of 500 meters. There is a place called the arm of sadness. That is one of the places where Nahuelito has been seen the most. Nahuelito is a phenomenon for the inhabitants of this region and even more so for the visitors. I had no experience about a sighting or something that looks like a strange movement in Lake Nahuelguapi despite being born in Bariloche. Yes, I had for my profession and because I made many notes the story of neighbors who claim to have seen what we define today as Nahuelito. I talked to relatives of an important businessman who died in 1987. There were four of them. Three businessmen and a bank manager. Families known here in Bariloche. It was a day like today. There was no wave in Lake Nahuelguapi. They were going in a very safe boat and the news was that they disappeared. The boat turned around and went down. Three bodies of four people appeared. The other one is still missing. It was a real mystery because they were fishing, because they were older people, because there was no wind. All this feeds the possibility that something exists in Lake Nahuelguapi. That there is something that we still do not know. I think Nahuelito is a myth. For some it is a reality. If it is there, it is ours. If it is not there, we congratulate those who reported a legend, a story, a fiction that has already reached international levels. The television sometimes shows a story of a neighbor. The radio does its own thing. And what they have taken strongly are cartoonists or cartoonists. This Nahuelito is already imagined as a central figure and as a pet of this city. Every five years we are talking about him. In five years, stories may appear that say they have seen Nahuelito. Then it returns as a deep silence where nobody speaks until the figure of this little animal resurfaces again through another popular story. I have not seen Nahuelito personally. I have seen two or three films that made me think a lot about his existence. I would love to see him if he exists. I pay attention to those people who say they have seen him because generally the eyes do not lie. In addition to the tradition and the history of his presence, you have to give credit to those who say that Nahuelito exists. Nahuelito's sightings have always been made on days when the lake is very calm, as if it were ironed, as if it were oil. On those days you can see internal movements, you can see water movements and you can see them emerge like lomos. Many have been seen from the coast, photos have been taken, but they do not stand out too much. That's why the lake has to be very calm. I think that since there were no waves, because the waves renew the oxygen in the water. On the other hand, the lake was still, still, still, like ironed. And surely they came to the surface to oxygenate, to feel oxygen. They did not appear cold or something like that. It was really a very suffocating time. And they came out protected by the island. Of all the sightings, there are some points in common, especially when people say that it emerges as if it were the back of a whale with a very loud noise. In several places that is common, even with the difference in the story of many years. And there are some very strong stories also where they assure that that spine that emerged from the lake has had an influence on some accidents that have occurred in the lake with boats and fishermen, with families who were sailing. Most of the videos seem to show something, but it is nothing. I have seen many things that are trunks. I have even seen filming of some animals called huillines, which are like large nutria. I have seen waves, what is sometimes called the famous single wave, when the lake is very ironed. There are internal currents that raise a wave and then it ends. There are some videos that have really surprised me and I can't say what it is, but it is neither a trunk floating, nor huillines swimming, nor the single wave. Patagonia has always been very hard from the beginning to the end. And much harder is at the end of the world, where they call it the end of the world, in Ushuaia, the land of fire. The Patagonian legends, for example, you have the city of the Caesars, you have the legend of the leather, you have an infinity of things that make Patagonia a place, if you want to say, a little enchanted. There are different cultures, of which if one learns, you have a total wealth. Especially the culture of the people of the land, who were the first, the originaries, who first populated Patagonia. In fact, there are records from 17,000 years ago. These monsters that you see here come many times from tradition to tradition, they happen orally, let's say. Patagonia is wonderful. Darwin had already said it when he traveled here in 1833. It is a giant museum, it is a place where fossils abound everywhere. A plesiosaur is an animal with a long neck, it has four fins, two front and two rear, and a tail. They were purely aquatic animals. To see a plesiosaur today in a lake is like seeing a million-year-old man walking down the street. Technically, it is impossible. 65 million years ago, the plesiosaurs disappeared and it is impossible for them to exist today. That does not mean that nature has not reserved some surprises for us. It may be that some animals have still survived, such as the coelacanth, for example, which is a fish that was found in India more or less 60 years ago, which was believed to have been extinct 65 million years ago. And that fish was forming hybrids, hybrids, hybrids, until today. I suppose that if that fish had been extinguished 65 million years ago and did not do it, why could it not have survived and made hybrids, a plesiosaur? There is a work carried out by scientists from the University of the South, here in Argentina, where they discovered that the famous lomos that are seen sailing on the water are gas bubbles that come out of a fault that is in Lake Nahuel Huapi, which form as if it were the back of a plesiosaur that is sailing. Those gas bubbles are produced because we are in a petroleum basin. We have a very technological culture, technology everywhere, which is not bad, of course it is very good, but we forget a lot about what the Earth is, what the Earth gives us, what the Earth teaches us. So we cannot accept, how can I tell you, the belief that a monster can exist in a lake. How can something similar exist? Some say that Lake Nahuel Huapi has connections with the Pacific Ocean. That is why they say that the Nahuelito from the Pacific Ocean would enter here, but that is also impossible. The Chileans say that this animal is seen in the Pacific. Now, how does it get here? I think that the mountain range is not a mole, but there are undergrounds. Otherwise, how can the lake always be at the same height? Because with the rain it does not grow. If the Pacific Ocean was here and the Nahuel Huapi here, the Nahuel Huapi would have salty water. And if it were the other way around, that the Nahuel Huapi is higher than the Pacific, the water of the Nahuel Huapi would end up in the Pacific and not in the Atlantic. And if they were both at the same level, it would have to have a very large cave. The feeling that I have of living here is of freedom, of pure air, especially in silence. And early in the morning I hear the birds. And I have a carancho, which is a rather large gray bird that stands on top of the pole and we have a conversation. I have a very strong connection with nature in general, whether it is trees, plants and animals. The indigenous cultures are very different from our cultures. They respect the land, their traditions, their monsters, their mythological beings. They respect them because it is part of their life. The land is part of them. They call it a monster. What right do we have because we find animals that are not the same as a horse, a bee or a dog? Why do we have to call them monsters? When it appeared on the island, it was a big one, which I thought was the female, and two smaller ones were playing there. That's why they were running around, as they say, the mother is with the boys on the beach. That's why I could see their whole body. They are not terrestrial, they have four fins. I loved seeing them, they were free. And in that, the one I thought was the female stopped suddenly and looked to the side and there were boats coming from the nautical club. I started screaming, go away, go away! I was like crazy. I don't know if they heard me or not, but they disappeared under the water. We are predators, we are not going to study a creature like you, we are going to investigate what this is, why is it here, we are going to destroy it. Our ancestors didn't do that. The evidence is circumstantial, a sighting or a photograph that can be taken occasionally. But scientific evidence, no. Because for scientists, it is very difficult to believe that an animal of those characteristics or a beast of those characteristics could have survived too many climatic changes. All legend comes from a reality. First there is reality, then it becomes a legend and then it becomes a myth. One of the versions that affirms that the Nahuelito does not exist, I take it from the experiences of an old captain of a ship, now deceased, whose name was Don Fernando Galeani. Since the 1930s, when he started sailing next to Nahuel Guapi, he maintained that the presence of the Nahuelito was nothing more and nothing less than what he called the dead wave. That theory that I had as valid made me think about the possibility that the animal really existed. Because one day, a friend of mine was coming down from Cerro Campanario and saw a strange movement in the lake, more or less between the movement and the chair, about two kilometers. He pointed with his camera and brought it with the zoom and it was a body that was moving that ascended towards the surface forming a circle, a curve, very close to the coast of the Campanario arm almost on the surface because the color of the body was more or less grayish, light gray in my memory and it always returned in a curve to sink into the water and disappear. These images made us think that possibly a living animal was in the depths of the Nahuel Guapi. Because a trunk does not rise in a curve to the surface and sink again in a planned trajectory, but it really had life and it must have been quite large. We were more skeptical in thinking about the life and the presence of the Nahuel. The truth is that at that moment we doubted that at least there was something under the lake, but we did not know very well what. I think there is that is similar to a mantarraya. I think there is a couple or an individual who is and can live quietly, that is to say, get out of the lake quietly. I was surprised to see something floating in the lake. It was as if it were a black balloon that came at full speed from the peninsula of San Pedro, from the bottom of the mountain range. I went to look in the long view to focus it better and when I focus in the long view I see that that black thing that was floating was not a balloon nor a submarine as I thought, because it had taken a very long neck with the head up. I thought it was the periscope. And when I saw the whole body I quickly looked for a sheet to draw it and I called the radio to say that if you please look because I did not want to be the only one who had seen such an animal. I have a camera but I did not have a roll, right? And this plethosaurus did not notify me by phone when it came. Maybe it came many more times that I could not see it. The date it came, the two or three times I saw it, the lake was flat, the time was very overwhelming. For me it feeds on algae. It does not have the mouth to eat a person. If it had ever happened to eat a human being it would have died poisoned because we are so bad, we distill so much evil that it would have become poisoned. Let's take into account an interesting detail. These lakes are not very old lakes. Their age is around 1.5 million years, approximately. So between the space of 65 million years to 1.5 million years ago, where did the plethosaurus live? If the lake did not exist, the plethosaurus could not exist. These animals were of technically warm waters because the Jurassic and Cretaceous system had seas with slightly warmer waters. But it may be that because it is observed more in summer than in winter. In winter here it is very cold and there is not much to stand next to the lake to see what is happening. There is a lot of wind, the water is more in motion, unlike in summer when the water is more still and maybe some things are seen. But that is not an indication to say that in summer they are seen more than in winter. I could tell you that in summer the gas bubbles are more soluble and they rise much more easily than in winter. Apparently there would be rare animals in different parts of the world. In reality, no one saw them. We did not see God and we believe in God, did we? I have a theory. For me there are giant turtles in this lake. Scientists say there are not. I have had turtles with my son in my hand, large turtles, aquatic turtles in this lake. So I think there may have been a deformation of some kind of turtle. This is an area of ​​turtles from a long time ago. Hopefully the research through this audiovisual work gives me the reason. Some say there is a giant turtle, but the turtle is an animal, it is a reptile, and in cold waters I do not think it could walk for a long time because in the middle of winter it would freeze. Reptiles need heat to live, not cold water. In this era, in this time that we are living, everything is hidden. UFO research is top secret. Cryptozoological research is the same. So people do not have the means to be able to search. We know more about space than we have here. There are areas in the Congo, in the Belgian Congo, in Africa, that are still unexplored. In Brazilian jungles, indigenous tribes are still being discovered. We are living in a world where they are putting other kinds of things in our heads. If someone took the risk to investigate well what exists in this lake, I think it would be a surprise. I'm not saying you're going to find a precious audio, but you can find some sarcastic that can demystify the myth of the grandfather. I have not seen a grandfather. My belief is in reading, my belief is in research, in contact with people, in seeing, in going out and reading, in looking for information. I have always been interested in this kind of mysteries and enigmas. It's not from now on. I've been researching this kind of stuff for 42 years. UFO, parapsychology, occultism, cryptozoology. I like everything that has a word for mystery. So I go and research. I try to find the yes and the no, the why and the why not. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a person who has a criterion. I don't say yes to everything. Everything is a spectacular possibility that it can be. Now that I assure you that it can be, I don't know. But all arguments to discredit the testimony in favor of the existence of Nahuelito have little value in the eyes of Roberto Polola. After many years conducting his own investigation, his findings invalidate all these dissenting theories. This, this, and this. And what about the real? Well, the real is what the witness sees. The real is what they tell you. The real is the photograph. You can also cheat the photograph because that is very common today. But there are photographs and photographs. Now there are techniques that tell you, well, this photograph is cheated and this is not. And many of the photographs they have taken are not cheated because they have done all the analysis. So they have been veridical results. And with these theories of what bubbles are, I take them as a reference, but I don't take it as a very real thing. We have a little bug that is so tiny, which is the cockroach, 400 million years ago, and those animals were mutating. They were mutating and mutating until today. Why couldn't they have mutated a precious object to get to this height, to this life, to this time? They could have done it well. I can't assure you that they have done it, but if we base ourselves on those strong evidence, you can't say no because yes. The tourists who come to San Carlos de Bariloche basically come looking to enjoy nature. This region has multiple possibilities to take advantage of nature, whether in summer with the mountains, with its lakes. A poet once called it the region of the four skies because the four seasons of the year are well differentiated. Now, in spring, the possibility of enjoying the first days of sun, with 20, 22, 24 degrees of temperature, enables outdoor activities, whether in the mountains, in the lakes or in the rivers, or in the steppe, which is that area where the forest is not. I always say that this film will change the history of the city a little. The scientific part can base all its sayings and the part of the neighbors and the people who have had sightings can also base and we can know in depth and relive from the recreations those sightings and find perhaps an answer that so far has not given any work. At the beginning of the 21st century, the presence of Nahuelito in all excursions was practically daily. It was seen, especially in the days of spring and summer, the days when the lake is calm, it is flat. There people say that it is when you can see it better. Tourism entrepreneurs, in general, institutions, different leaders, do not talk about Nahuelito. If the society, the common neighbor, talks, then that thing is very interesting to rescue. The last reference I had was in 2006. But supposedly from 2006 to 2013 have passed a few years and sightings will have seen many. I do not say no. So far 1,500 different species have appeared of totally unknown animals. And even today there are animals that do not know how to classify them. You see that each animal has its scientific name. Scientists put them to determine what kind of animals. Well, today there is a huge amount of these new species that still in large centers cannot be classified. We are inhabiting an almost unknown planet. The message that all this has for me, that millenary story, is let's take care of nature. Be careful with the lake, which is very beautiful, but you can drown. Try to caress and respect a lot the lake, the streams. A little further south are the continental ice. That's the interpretation I make. These animals, such as Onesi, Ogopogo, Mukelembembe, Mapinguari, Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot, are animals that come from a tradition. Because if we talk about Bigfoot or Sasquatch, for example, Bigfoot, the Indians of North America, the Cheyennes, the Navajos, all those, the Anasazi, already spoke of all these types of beings who lived in that place. So it comes from a tradition. And it can't be, for me it can't be, that all the cultures of these people have seen all these things and they don't exist. The human being needs to believe in something. The human being has to believe in something. Believe in God, believe in aliens, that there we could have another conversation, it is more feasible. And we have to believe in something. And, well, we believe in Grandpa. And why not?