What Sort of Monster Is Swimming Beneath the Frigid Waters of This Icelandic Lake?
- Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:49pm by
Liz Klimas
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Since 1345, a mysterious aquatic creature dubbed the Lagarfljót worm — or the Iceland worm monster — has been showing up unexpectedly in Lagarfljót Lake near Egilsstaðir. The Huffington Post reports that, according to lore, it is considered a bad omen when the worm appears.
Rare footage of what appears to be a giant serpent swimming through the icy water emerged earlier this month. See for yourself:
Iceland News has more on the local legend:
The story goes that the worm was once just a little heath worm which was put onto a golden ring, as that was rumoured to make the gold grow. When the owner of the ring came back later, she discovered with shock that the worm had grown enourmous, but the ring was still the same size as before. In frustration she threw both the worm and the ring into the lake, where the worm continued to grow bigger still.
Serpent-like image swimming through the lake's icy water.
Here's a blurry screenshot of what would be the "head".
Like those coming up with rational answers for the eerie photographs capturing the outline of the Loch Ness Monster, there are skeptics for this video footage as well. Some have said the worm is really just a frozen fishing net floating through the ice.
What do you make of it?
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Comments (148)
aronmantoo
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:31pmIsn’t that a Lawyer?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:44pm.
Report Post »No, Laywers are made of the stuff that falls out a cows behind………..
MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:49pmI hope it does a “Devil In Miss Jones’ on that skank Nazi Pelosi …
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:17pmWhen my wife was reading this article, I told her, if you want to see a giant worm, let me unbuckle my pants…….I am now told that dinner tonight will be whatever I can fix myself…….:(……..humor is truly dead……..
Report Post »ScratInTheHat
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:32pmThe thing is clearly segmented! Just a hoax!
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:41pm“…The Huffington Post reports that,…”
Report Post »There’s the problem, right there. If HuffPo reports it, it must be real.
Uh-huh.
Hey, Mister- wanna buy a bridge?
Bloody Sam
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:51pmThink of the temperature of the water. If it is a cold blooded beastie, it couldn’t move and would die. If it is a warm blooded beastie it would perish from hypo-thermia in only a few minutes.
Report Post »Hoax.
Emrys
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:03pmBloodysam-
Have you never heard of arctic sharks, polar bears, seals, penguins, beluga whaltes, narwhales, walruses, etc.? Not sayin this isn’t a hoax, but you gotta use some logic on debunking it; a lot of animals live in arctic waters, just watch Discovery channel sometime and see the king crabs being caught from the ocean floor in the Bering Sea. With a long time to evolve, depending on your view of creation/evolution, surely there are things living in that lake year-round. Heard of ice fishing? :)
Report Post »Coulterr
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:17pmNaw, lawyers are bottom feeders.
Report Post »Dom321
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:18pmOk TXPILOT, You made me spill my wine on the keyboard… Sounds like something I would have said. Females have a rough time with humor like that.
Report Post »LIBS-ARE-DINGLEHEADS
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:55pmNo…it’s the slithering OBAMASNAKE…covered in Marxist goo…..
Report Post »quicker
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:09pm@ Txpoilet .Looks like you`re in the dog house now.When I do something like that I make sure she does`nt have something in her hand,like that 18 in cast iron frying pan.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:39pm@TXPILOT
Report Post »Your wife knows for a fact that your story was a hoax so it is sandwiches for you tonight for a pants-on-fire violation of the marriage pact. :)
USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:15pmTEX You sure opened up a
can of wormes
Looks like one of obo’s used condo@###################@s
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:47amAAAWWW TXPILOT,
She’s not really mad. She‘s just showing her true disappointment in what she gets as opposed to what you think you’re giving her.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:42amTXPilot OMG i’m dying laughing here!
Report Post »Tyson
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:42amTXpilot
Report Post »HAHHAHAHAHAHH
They SMEAR what they FEAR
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 12:36pmWhat do you call 10,000 lawyers buried at the bottom of the sea?
A good start!
Report Post »Ba-dum-bum
Impenitent
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:30pmI would say Godzilla…
Report Post »Gary_K
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:28pmIts the Obamanation slinking along.
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:46pmYou just let everyone know that you have no interest in this country, but only to rid it of a Black President.
Report Post »HYPNOTOAD
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:14pmTo UNBOTHERED: Nice try unbothered. Your racism is showing. Your pathetic reaching is obvious to all.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:28pmI’m surprised that Glenn UNBOTHERED Beck even has time to post on here.
Report Post »Gary_K
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:23pmgee, you are such an A$$, I just want to get rid of a socialist in the white house.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:32pmI kinda like the black Obama, it’s the white commie part I dont like
Report Post »I guess I’m just a raciest
Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:26pmReminds me of an educational film we were shown in 9th grade health class.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:16pmooof
Report Post »Lawrence7
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:25pmLooks to me like an optical illusion created by Ice sheets/chucks moving at different speeds and causing strainge rippling in the water being churned betwee the moving ice.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:14pmYep, I’m with you on this one….
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:21pmI’m not really sure what it is but I flushed something similarly shaped just the other day, albeit not as big.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:28pmStay classy, Stud E.
LOL
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:21pmHey, Blaze,,, Stick to real news,,, BUT, WHAT THE HE11 WAS THAT THING,,,
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:06pmLOL — reminds me of when SNL was funny.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:21pmI looked at several films of it.I see why some would say it is a abandoned fishing net.However, at least two I looked at, show clearly that it was alive and swimming rather deftly against the current.Could be some sort of eel.Maybe a ribbon fish.They are deep water fish though and don’t usually surface unless they are dieing.Maybe this one evolved for bouancy in different water depths.It is in norway fjord country and well ,it would be a useful adaptation.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:47pmFjords run deeper than Gmc.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:18pmCaution stupid stuff being towed up-stream
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:36pmyep. you nailed it. fiction is stranger than truth.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:16pmSend in Jeremy Wade-he’ll find out!
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:14pmI‘m just happy the story didn’t relate to ringworm.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:28pmBENINNY< or a tape worm? ……….Eeeeeeeesh! creepy thought.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:13pmIs “The Blaze” trying to ruin its credibility as a news source? Seriously. Loch ness monster of Iceland? Really? If huffpo wants to report on it, fine, let THEM start looking like a tabloid. C’mon blaze…. next it will be yeti, space lights, and celebrity alien babies.
Report Post »Sr Newk
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:19pmI agree with you Firebrand, this is just crazy nonsense. The TRUTH supposedly lets keep it that way. No guessing stuff, just report the truth. If you don‘t know for sure if it is real of fake the don’t report on it.
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:39pmSome people find this stuff interesting and really, does the news have to be hard hitting all the time? You obviously took enough note of it to click on the article and then waste even more time by posting a comment. As with everything in life, what you don’t want to read or find uninteresting, don’t read it. Just because you don’t find it newsworthy or interesting hardly means everyone else is of the same opinion.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:44pm@Firebrand,&Sr Newk–I think Blaze is making fun of Huffington post by this. In the article they(the Blaze) say it’s the Huffington post who did the article.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:54pm@dstar
Report Post »The title of the article doesn‘t imply that it’s a “tabloid-esque” type of story. Another thing to remember is that tabloids and gossip rags are read by millions of “interested” readers a year. The difference is that if I pick up a tabloid, I know it’s a tabloid. When I read the Blaze, I want investigative journalism and no “bovine feces/opinion” filled news.
cemerius
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:06pmMy thinking as well!
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:09pmI’m sorry you find cryptozoology to be in realm of tabloids.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:43pm@ objective
Report Post »I’m sorry you find cryptozoology to be a real science. When was the last cryptozoologist awarded a Nobel Prize again? Or for that matter, any major scientific prize? How many R01′s and NSF grants go to cryptozoologists every year?
Shrugged
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:02pmThey already have UFO articles – Undeniably Failing Obama
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:16pm@shrugged
Report Post »You have to have 3 independent witnesses to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that something has occurred. That’s a UFO sighting witnessed by 365 million people. Unfortunately, 50% of them refuse to admit what they’ve seen. =o)
cuinsong
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:13pmPhony floting boat shaped like a dragon! But if it was real I would dedicate this song to it called Sunny Day http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11314300 cause he/she looks like they are on the hunt for a companion?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:07pmSubsurface gas.
The Icelandics are extremely superstitious, to a point that it shocks those not from Iceland. A large majority there still actually “for real” believe in things like elves, trolls, etc. They’ve carried their ancient Norse heritage with them untouched by modernity for almost a thousand years. Very strange culture.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:15pmTake a look at Henry Waxman, trolls ARE real.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:30pmSame with elves aka Barney Frank.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:31pmWell, we cannot count on Thor, because he just died.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:42pm.
Report Post »So what your saying is, that’s an Earth Fart……….Somebody light a match……..
SgtB
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:50pmThor died?
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:03pmMonster swimming. Wonder if Pelosi is on vacation in Iceland?
Report Post »SmallGovBigGuns
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:03pmthat looks like its huge!
Report Post »Sergei
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:26pmwhat she said
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:00pmIt looks like it’s comprised of many pieces; like box cars make up a train.
–Gold and rings?
};^> connectors
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:59pmIt’s the Loch Ness Monsters third cousin…
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:58pmIt is not alive. Only a mammal or true reptile would hover on the surface like that, and it’s neither of those. Whatever it was it was floating on a current.
Report Post »dheard
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:16pmGotta disagree w/ you on that Bonnie. If it was floating on a current it wouldn’t be making those undulating movements that are characteristic of a swimming snake or crocodile tail. That takes muscle and bone attached to that muscle to produce that. It is slow moving but it‘s in freezing water and that isn’t conducive to moving quickly. If you watch the video closely on the close ups of the “head” you can see it is going against the current so it is definitely not floating debris.
Report Post »capecod1
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:17pmBut if you watch the flow of the water it is swimming upstream? It looks like propelled movement to me…it would be pointing the other way if it was drifting on a current.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:46pm@capecod
Report Post »No I thought the same before I looked at it.Its actually going against the current horizontally.Its cutting across it.There seem to be pockets to the fjord in this lake.Ribbon fish/oar fish could very well inhabit the fjord.If they came into the lake the surfacing may be them dieing.Might actually be an adaptation into fresh water and bouancy levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbonfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish
Sorry I’d leave a link to fish base but it takes forever to load.Great site though.You can get to it by a search engine.Just use the name and add .org to it.
SevenTrumpets42
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:58pmThis looks like a fracture in the ice with trapped air.
Report Post »TraceyM
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:58pmIt’s a sreeking eel!
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:18pmGet back in the boat princess, and I promise you you will not be harmed.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:30pmWe have Buttercup and William. Does that make me Sicilian?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:57pmIt doesn’t look alive to me.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:55pmNeither does Nancy Pelosi.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:56pmAnyone remember the horror flick “Lair of the White Worm?
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:09pmIt was based on a book by Bram Stoker of “Dracula” fame.
Report Post »Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:21pmInteresting. I’ve never heard of it. It sounds like something Poe or Lovecraft would have come up with. I would never think Stoker. Was that the title of the book also?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:23pmLooks like you’re on your own DD. Was it any good?
Report Post »Sean In LI
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:02pmI saw “Lair of the White Worm” a very long time ago. From what I recall, it was basically soft-core porn, lol. And the white worm was all about the fire, right? Not so much the ice…
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 12:11pmActually, the movie was quite entertaining. Good looking actresses, European modesty standards, a kickin’ theme song, and relatively faithful to the book of the same title by Bram Stoker. The book, like the subject of this posted story, was based upon a medieval legend. Just as Stoker based “Dracula” on the Romanian vampire legends (themselves based in part on the real life King Vlad Tepes), “Lair of the White Worm” was based on the Lambton Worm legend of the River Wear in Durhamshire, England. Not to be confused with the “Liar of the White Worm,” William Jefferson Clinton.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:55pmHas the FLOTUS vacationed in Iceland recently?
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:54pmIt”s a weather balloon.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:58pm@bullcrapbuster–I agree. It’s the weather balloon from the guy who tried to set sky diving record..
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