Talk:Lake Van Monster

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I am not aware of any Armenian tradition of there being a monster living in the lake. This makes the story a likely candidate for a modern hoax combined with wishful thinking.

The sightings of the creature also coincided with a period of rapid rise in the water level of Lake Van (it went up by at least 3 metres). It is possible that what was being noticed were merely the bodies of drowned farm animals. 81.76.37.150 01:24, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was not known if the creature was evil or not and many locals believed it was sent by Allah to relieve the area of it's large Jewish population

I'm not sure what to make of the above sentence, it seems like it could be getting at something valid and interesting, but as it is seems unencyclopedic. John.Conway (talk) 19:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The video[edit]

See[1]. I know it was sent to Cousteau but not if he commented on it. Dougweller (talk) 13:26, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are photos of the 1995 sighting, there was a shop in Van that sold them and I bought one at the time. It looks more like a reddish-coloured bloated cow carcass than any living monster. The image also appeared in newspaper reports. I had some photocopies of the news articles but at the moment I don't know what I did with them. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 19:04, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's an elephant, footage here. Also, it was not shot in Turkey. --92slim (talk) 22:57, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it was a slim elephant, an IP prevented this notable article from an eventual deletion. --176.239.17.198 (talk) 22:30, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's a video of an elephant. Looks like someone doesn't really care about Wikipedia. --92slim (talk) 19:14, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This article not shows the truth. Because the van lake monster is in turhish culture. Van province is in turkey and about 1000 years turkey have it. 31.223.86.222 (talk) 05:27, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Tollens (talk) 05:46, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]