CHESSIE · LAKE & SEA MONSTER · 7:46
Evening Magazine: Chesapeake Bay monster (1979)
WJZ-TV Baltimore · Internet Archive
A 1979 Baltimore TV feature on the Bay’s sea monster, from the early years of the Chessie craze. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
CHESSIE · LAKE & SEA MONSTER · 7:46
WJZ-TV Baltimore · Internet Archive
A 1979 Baltimore TV feature on the Bay’s sea monster, from the early years of the Chessie craze. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Raw Baltimore news footage from September 1982, a few months after the Frew video made headlines; the Chessie segment starts at about 20:55.
The original television report from 1960, made in the wake of Tim Dinsdale’s famous film of a hump crossing the loch.
Period newsreel from the heyday of the 1960s hunts, when a small submarine was brought to the loch.
Contemporary BBC news footage of Operation Deepscan’s line of sonar boats sweeping the loch.
A light student-TV overview of the Champ legend made in Burlington, on the lake’s shore.
Burlington community-media participants discuss the 2009 Champ cellphone video.