Look at the side of the river and make a reference point for where they are. At both the start of the video and the end of the video, you can see on the right bank that they hardly move at all, and instead it's the current pushing the boat backwards that makes the object 'move past' the boat, and without realising that they've been pushed back, they stick on the motor and go past it again to only be pushed back again when they turn the motor off to let it 'catch up'. To answer the bobbing and weaving thing, currents can make loose underwater objects do that. I don't think anyone could place a bet on exactly what it is, but I'm guessing it's some object that got snagged on something like a rock or some weird plant as it flowed downriver.
Pallid sturgeon are known to swim near the surface and they can get pretty big. Paddle fish,also called Spoon Bill here in Missouri do the same at times.
It’s a buoy or something attached to the bottom, it’s stationary and the river current is pushing the boat back giving the illusion that it’s traveling.notice how it’s always going faster when the engine dies down or off . You’ve been duped
this water is smooth as glass. no current unless they're letting water out the dam, and even then there's no strong current like what this looks like unless you're too close to the dam lol
I witnessed almost that exact occurence. I was bowfishing in the backwaters where the missispi overflowed it's banks. I have to say that I was awestruck and didn't even try to shoot. I would have a loved to see what it was!
TarponTango They are turning off the engine and the river is pulling them backward but keeping the camera focused on the same shot making it look live its moving upstream. then they turn the boat on and move closer to the buoy and then turn the engine back off and float away from it.
through many years fishing the same river I can tell you Iv seen some massive fish. I think it looks like a very old sturgeon or indeed a bullshark Iv seen three myself and it's a nice spook
Really nice, low budget special effects. Log or something stuck underwater in the fast-moving current. Pull your boat up to it, shut the engine off, allow the boat to drift backward with the current making it appear that "the fish" is moving away. Start the engine pull back up to the sunken log, repeat. Nice job, fooled a lot of people. However, you need only notice that the shoreline never changes. With the speed they appear to be going you would think at some point they would eventually pass that spot of trees on the right bank.
WOW! Watching in August 2023. That's incredible, love how you guys weren't afraid to get close and keep up with it to show everyone exactly what you were seeing, Awesome footage guy's!
I'm sorry for my previous post! I watched the original video very closely and the truth is that those people are playing with the river's current. If you watch closely, you can see and hear that the guy turns off the engine: that's when the so-called monster starts keeping out with them. The river current starts pulling the boat back and you can see the "monster" going faster. So far so good: the guy turns on the motor but he gives it enough juice to counteract the current. The results is: a monster log following a boat.
I've fished the Mississippi near Alton IL. We caught a 70 lb blue cat that got in the current and used it to its advantage. We also hooked into something that got into the current and headed up river. We pulled anchor and gave chase but were unable to land it. There are huge fish in that water.
my dad worked on the Missouri River bridges and dams. He saw divers come up so quickly because of what they had seen down below, and others be hauled up dead with marks on their bodies. The stories the live divers would tell were of monstrously big fish. My dad never allowed me to swim in the Missouri. Never.
@@amontii617 honestly the fact that so many bodies go undiscovered makes me think that sometimes fish get the better of someone. everyone's had a tiny bass or catfish go for a bait that's 3x it's size, why can't it happen with humans then? takes 20lbs of force to drag someone under.
It's a river bouy for the barges, when the river goes up it will do that if you look to the right you'll see the big yellow tree, every time they stop the boat, it goes downstream with the current.
Curtis Jacobson I believe your right, after your comment I started watching the shoreline, and it’s their boat floating backwards and whatever it is doesn’t move forward.
Curtis Jacobson I just watched it again it is a buoy… They start the motor up they roll up to it and then they stop the motor and float back and it gives the appearance that it’s moving forward in the water when in reality it’s the boat floating backwards. If you watch the tree line you’ll keep seeing the same tree over and over again.
That's exactly what it is. @1:10 and @2:18, they are in the exact same spot in relation to the bank. I'm quite sure it's a red nun buoy since the main channel of the river is left of them (stay left of red going upstream). These guys are extremely lucky because when those things do break the surface they a have a real tendency to thrash around and they are extremely dangerous (1000lb thrashing steel drum).
I have been fishing this river for almost 40 years just outside of KCMO and I have seen this and 1 other unexplained thing in this water but I have never been able to get up close like that though that was great, My problem is that its always at night and can never get a good look. I have always heard about the Missouri River Monster but cant say that I have seen it but have seen things that I cant explain. Great Video
@Shaikh Shaikh I really truly honestly can't explain what we saw either time. We saw a wake very similar to this like a dolphin the first time but the next time was a very long bright white shiny thing atleast 10 feet long or longer that disappeared right before a log jam and appeared again on the otherside. I still think about what that could have been even now over 25 years later and I have no answer.
@@KCJAZZ60 it's amazing and terrifying at the same time having glimpse of massive creatures right before eyes. Appreciate your response to my comment, thank you.
@@KCJAZZ60one time i was at a water reservoir just sitting at a dock. then out of nowhere the water at the far side of the inlet i saw a huge wake come around a corner from farther in the lake. kept swimming toward me and around the area, it was about 25 feet long. most insane thing ive ever seen
i lived in omaha fo 25 years, urban legend has it that when they built the bridge that connects omaha to council bluffs they had hard time finding divers for this reason
jerry arnold reason?? Like ... that there’s very big fish in there or was it because,the divers never came back up? Did they see something ? This is scary because I’ve seen northerns spawning in the spring and it makes me wonder how huge the biggest fish is in my lakes. I’m from northern Ontario. Sandy lake and out lake is pretty much on the shallow side but we do have some very deep areas and it makes me wonder When ice fishing near spring time we always get Something that literally just takes the bait and swims away as if it was thread and we use 30-40lb line. Sometimes I’ll use sinew wax string and usually yank out the big walleyes no problem unless the hook itself straightens out from its weight but there’s something very big under the ice/lake We have Northern Pikes, Walleyes, whitefish , suckers, the odd perch here and there and also Maria’s ( catfish eel like fish..yuck!! Just cut the line on that one) and we have way too much Gold eyes golden eye whitefish with teeth. And finally this one is a myth in our waters but elders say they did use to have them before. Sturgeons!!! But they’ve disappeared in the 1930-50s , Elders said they moved to the rapids .. but there have been sightings of something sturgeon like in the waters but no one has ever caught one ,, We have to revel far to get to them. But I’ve read about them and they can survive anything. Plus we have a clay bottom. I’m wondering if they’ve borrowed into the clay and are laying dormant til they feel it’s time to continue living Like a hibernation type thing for survival. I’m thinking it could be it. Come out in winter and go under in summer to avoid getting hit by props and boats I don’t just my assumptions. Lol. I like to think. But Anyway. Ever since I was 14 I’ve stopped swimming in our lakes on the account on my uncle and I set out a Gil net one early spring summer and the next mornings catch I couldn’t believe my eyes as my uncle struggled to get the giant northern pike onto the boat. Since then it’s made me wonder how big the biggest is and how big do they get? I heard they keep growing in size as long they’re alive.
Gregory Schwab I’ve got to look that up. About the muskellunge. I can understand catfish and Gar but I want to know about northern pikes and muskellunge. I’ve also seen huge suckers ( maybe 2-2 1/2 feet in size ) jump way up out of the water and never saw a predator around the area like at otter or fisher/mink. And to tell you the truth. I was 14 years old when I was with my uncle and I’m 44 now. I’ve only swam in the lake maybe twice in my life after that Lol. Scary
I saw something almost exactly like that on the Columbia River a few weeks ago. I thought maybe I was seeing things, then I saw two of them yesterday. I have not been able to catch it on video but these also included a white spray right above the fish and they were even faster. I'm guessing sturgeon but if anyone knows for sure I'd like to know.
The swaying motion of this creature almost matches the motion of how a paddlefish swims to a point, yet the size leaves me astonished! I know where ima be fishing for now on
Well... Im not sure what it is. But I have seen lake sturgeon pull off some impressive waves and crazy movement in the water. We do have +300lb lake sturgeon in the Missouri. I have watched them once or twice come up the inlet of the papio creek just south of Omaha during flood stages. Pretty rare though.
The Ponca talk about a giant river monster that lived in the river, that's actually what brought me here I wanted to see if there was any footage or possible pictures of it
Lol.. What ever it is it's stationary. When they shut off the motor they are actually drifting back down stream. Watch in the background every time they catch up to it the same white building is there.
Well Speaking Of Current, I Think the Boat Started The Current IN That particular Area. The Boat had Been Tured As Its Easy To Guess In The Film And Looks A lot Like The Boat Waves, As You Said It Can Look like Its Moving In One Derection Because Of The Angle The Camera Is At. I Really think This Is Boat Waves.
It gives the illusion that it's swimming away because they cut their motor and drift down stream and away from it. I grew up along a river and have seen similar, just look at the bank of trees to the right, it never gains any distance.
@@javaidhaider9289 I grew up along a River, logs do sink after a time when they're saturated with water. Also some get trapped below the surface and bob up and down with the current giving the illusion of something swimming.
seen something like this once. it was a log hooked up on the bottom. it did the same thing. shut off the motor and float down current, makes it look like its swimming away from the boat.
You can drive through Parkville at English Landing Park right down to the Missouri River. About fifteen feet off the shore there was a distubance in the water just like this. When the river was higher the surface would be smooth then suddenly swirl into a whirlpool sucking water a couple of feet below the surface. Then the whirlpool would vanish for a few minutes. People would step off the park's walking trail to stare at the spot, but that murky ol' river would never give up its secret. It was spookier than the devil! Eventually, during a lower river stage, divers discovered a dump-truck that had been stolen decades before and run off into the river.
At 3:46 there is a slight silhouette of a fish. It’s hard to see because the color matches that of the water, but there is some visibility. If it was a buoy, the bump you see at this time stamp would be smaller.
I was on the White River below Calico Rock, AR last Saturday, 10/7, with some friends and we witnessed the same thing. And yes we would like to know what kind of fish is this?
Wow! That was crazy big whatever that was. Did you ever figure out what it was? I never even seen a fish swim that way. That was really interesting thank you I'd love to hear back from you what that was?
I actually started looking these up because I was at S. Holston lake early one morning. No one was on the water yet and all the sudden I seen something huge moving underwater. The wake this thing made actually formed waves like a Big boat would make when its hauling butt on the water. I never got to see what it was but you better bet my kids didn't go swimming that day!!
@@adamsbrs260 Oh yeah. Lol you never know what's in that water. I know it sounds crazy but sometimes I wonder if things come out of underground springs from the aquifer? Makes you wonder if something lives down there and sometimes it comes up here? Thanks 😊
A sighting like this at Loch Ness in Scotland would keep the tourist industry happy for decades lol. Probably a very large Alligator Gar hunting for small fish near the surface.
I saw this clip too, watched over and over again, many years ago. That same feeling of disappointment and despair still prevails. Of not really knowing what magnificent, gigantic creature caused such wakes.
It's a buoy stuck underwater. The current of the river is giving an illusion that it's moving but it's actually stationary. When the guy pulls up to the "fish/creature" he cuts the motor and as the boat drifts back with the current it's giving an illusion of the submerged buoy swimming forward. It's not a fish/creature but a buoy stuck underneath water 😂
ok folks, i studied this several times and my findings are, lol.... if you watch from the begining and look to the top of your screen, you will see something white across the river, each time they shut the motor off, then you can see they are still across from that white thing again about the same distance, so my findings are ( A BOUIE )... thanks for watching...lol
+chicago guy the shore is far away, you wont notice it change from their perspective because they're so far offshore. If they were like 100 feet from shore then you could go by the background and trees on the shore...but when you're that far from the land, you really dont notice movement unless you're moving greater distances than they're moving in this video
Honestly, a few hundred pound alligator gar would probably do this when it swims at the top. I've seen lots of gar swim just below the surface. And as strong as gar can be, it seems to check out
They are turning off the engine and the river is pulling them backward but keeping the camera focused on the same shot making it look live its moving upstream. then they turn the boat on and move closer to the buoy and then turn the engine back off and float away from it.
This is obviously a submerged navigation buoy. The buoy is stationary but the Missouri River current makes them look like they are crusing upstream. See them all the time. This is a trick I play on our educational boat trip passengers. On the film, everytime they cut out the motor, the boat starts drifting downstream with the current (3.5 or more MPH on the Missouri River) and they guys are like "whoa there it goes!". You can tell by the landmarks on the bank of the river that they are not moving at all.
Exactly right, they move towards the submerged object, it is not swimming away, cut the motor, and they drift backwards, it never advances 1 inch upstream.
I've never seen any fish stay on the surface like that before. Especially when there's a boat right on top of them. Very strange, would like to know what it is. I think it would almost have to be a sturgeon or a paddle fish
I have the exact same thing happen on the Kansas river last month, we followed it for two miles. Had people try telling me it was a school of buffalo. Hahah that’s one single fish not multiple.
Likely to be just a rock. Fish do not stay nearby when a noisy outboard comes near them. It also seemed to be in the same place and it did not leave the correct kind of wake for an animal swimming up stream.
I believe this is real, because in one part, you could see a fin or a part of “its” head bob out of the water, and if it was a log or something, it would most likely float at the surface. I am not entirely sure, but that is my guess
Funny how it never maks any forward progress on the river. Every time you go to the head of the wake it lines up exactly with the same spot on the opposite bank. Always it that straight line. Never swims off when you approach it. It's a damn log in the river.
I have friends pulling 3 and 4 foot flatheads out of the Fox River between Elgin and Aurora IL, so a 5,6,7 foot channel cat is not impossible. I've seen 7 foot sturgeon pulled out of channels/ narrow rivers. Just because you haven't seen anything like it yourself does not mean it isn't possible.
They are very popular in Germany they call them chirstmax fish. They was interduced over here years ago. As algae feeders but they love minnows n worms. Closer to a sucker fish.
It's either a sturgeon or one of those Colombian cocaine smuggling subs. :P
The dumbest answer I've ever seen
@@jhonrestrepo9970 it’s plausible tbh
This somehow made me laugh...
Can it be sturgeon that smuggles cocaine or they don't do that?
lol thats wut i said too
6 yrs ago video, and i am watching this vid in 2020 dec, anyone else?
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@Banks Wooten Yep friend that seems to be a lochness monster or some sort of giant fish
It's a bouy. Probaly would have been hard to get into the boat, since they are anchored down.
@@mattcadwell1652 Yep i saw other videos as well the bouy are like swimming monsters
Steve Erwin would have done a flying leap on its back. I miss that guy.
Didn't he die by a Stingray
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@@lovetv5366 thx
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@Cobra Kai Never Dies nope
2:55 he sounds like golem from lord of the rings
Dude that's funny
Look at the side of the river and make a reference point for where they are. At both the start of the video and the end of the video, you can see on the right bank that they hardly move at all, and instead it's the current pushing the boat backwards that makes the object 'move past' the boat, and without realising that they've been pushed back, they stick on the motor and go past it again to only be pushed back again when they turn the motor off to let it 'catch up'. To answer the bobbing and weaving thing, currents can make loose underwater objects do that. I don't think anyone could place a bet on exactly what it is, but I'm guessing it's some object that got snagged on something like a rock or some weird plant as it flowed downriver.
I kept waiting for somebody to say "hold my beer ..."
Haha
@@gangland479 yeah. Who's this Bill btw?
I'm waiting for someone to dive and grapple that thing beneath so we will have an idea what it is
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@@WHOOOSHXDOfficial I'm old, and memory is from the day I saw it, 1974? But thanks..
@@youknowme8578 were you a kid in 1074?
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Pallid sturgeon are known to swim near the surface and they can get pretty big. Paddle fish,also called Spoon Bill here in Missouri do the same at times.
sturgeon live in saltwater not freshwater stupid
time to get Jeremy wade to come check it out . lol
The people in the boat are like ‘Why we still here just to suffer’
Shovel nose sturgeon. Saw a 10 footer under me once.
When they turn off the boat its then you notice there moving backwards with the speed of the water, then they catch up to it again. Its stationary
Yeah it’s pro ya buoy that got pulled under or something similar.
Camera tricks
It’s a buoy or something attached to the bottom, it’s stationary and the river current is pushing the boat back giving the illusion that it’s traveling.notice how it’s always going faster when the engine dies down or off . You’ve been duped
That is the best explanation I have heard yet.
Maby a sturgeon? But you probably right
You can also tell by looking at the bank it never moves from its land mark.
this water is smooth as glass. no current unless they're letting water out the dam, and even then there's no strong current like what this looks like unless you're too close to the dam lol
@daftnord4957 please stop being dumb
I witnessed almost that exact occurence. I was bowfishing in the backwaters where the missispi overflowed it's banks. I have to say that I was awestruck and didn't even try to shoot. I would have a loved to see what it was!
Hey dude hold my beer I'm jumping in a little noodle action here...
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Ha! You guys have never seen a buoy before eh? Jeez.
My husband has been on the river for many years and this is not a buoy!
Lol. You're right. Probably Bigfoot bobbing for apples...
oh I didn't know buoys could move upstream. fascinating.
TarponTango They are turning off the engine and the river is pulling them backward but keeping the camera focused on the same shot making it look live its moving upstream. then they turn the boat on and move closer to the buoy and then turn the engine back off and float away from it.
+Chris Duey it's moving and it's not an optical illusion ...
through many years fishing the same river I can tell you Iv seen some massive fish. I think it looks like a very old sturgeon or indeed a bullshark Iv seen three myself and it's a nice spook
Really nice, low budget special effects. Log or something stuck underwater in the fast-moving current. Pull your boat up to it, shut the engine off, allow the boat to drift backward with the current making it appear that "the fish" is moving away. Start the engine pull back up to the sunken log, repeat.
Nice job, fooled a lot of people. However, you need only notice that the shoreline never changes. With the speed they appear to be going you would think at some point they would eventually pass that spot of trees on the right bank.
I've seen the same thing while on the river, it's a log like you said, they kept floating away from it, lol
dude it’s not a log. that is a fish, and you can even see it moving side to side
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As you can see, it is obviously a pigeon.
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But Pigeons Don't Get As Long As This Wave Can get.
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WOW! Watching in August 2023. That's incredible, love how you guys weren't afraid to get close and keep up with it to show everyone exactly what you were seeing, Awesome footage guy's!
Nessie has come to USA to check out all her Scottish cousins.
I'm sorry for my previous post! I watched the original video very closely and the truth is that those people are playing with the river's current. If you watch closely, you can see and hear that the guy turns off the engine: that's when the so-called monster starts keeping out with them. The river current starts pulling the boat back and you can see the "monster" going faster. So far so good: the guy turns on the motor but he gives it enough juice to counteract the current. The results is: a monster log following a boat.
ever heard of him saying unknown?
Guys, what are you talking about?
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time to call Jeramy Wade from River monsters .
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I've fished the Mississippi near Alton IL. We caught a 70 lb blue cat that got in the current and used it to its advantage. We also hooked into something that got into the current and headed up river. We pulled anchor and gave chase but were unable to land it. There are huge fish in that water.
my dad worked on the Missouri River bridges and dams. He saw divers come up so quickly because of what they had seen down below, and others be hauled up dead with marks on their bodies. The stories the live divers would tell were of monstrously big fish. My dad never allowed me to swim in the Missouri. Never.
@@amontii617 honestly the fact that so many bodies go undiscovered makes me think that sometimes fish get the better of someone. everyone's had a tiny bass or catfish go for a bait that's 3x it's size, why can't it happen with humans then? takes 20lbs of force to drag someone under.
Agreed. Flatheads, blues, gar, sturgeon... Could be anything.
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It's a river bouy for the barges, when the river goes up it will do that if you look to the right you'll see the big yellow tree, every time they stop the boat, it goes downstream with the current.
Curtis Jacobson I believe your right, after your comment I started watching the shoreline, and it’s their boat floating backwards and whatever it is doesn’t move forward.
Curtis Jacobson I just watched it again it is a buoy… They start the motor up they roll up to it and then they stop the motor and float back and it gives the appearance that it’s moving forward in the water when in reality it’s the boat floating backwards. If you watch the tree line you’ll keep seeing the same tree over and over again.
Thanks for your clarification sir. I was struggling to figure out what was really happening here.
That's exactly what it is. @1:10 and @2:18, they are in the exact same spot in relation to the bank. I'm quite sure it's a red nun buoy since the main channel of the river is left of them (stay left of red going upstream). These guys are extremely lucky because when those things do break the surface they a have a real tendency to thrash around and they are extremely dangerous (1000lb thrashing steel drum).
I think its loch ness monster visiting her relative... 😂
I have been fishing this river for almost 40 years just outside of KCMO and I have seen this and 1 other unexplained thing in this water but I have never been able to get up close like that though that was great, My problem is that its always at night and can never get a good look. I have always heard about the Missouri River Monster but cant say that I have seen it but have seen things that I cant explain. Great Video
Any suggestions what would you saw could be?
@Shaikh Shaikh I really truly honestly can't explain what we saw either time. We saw a wake very similar to this like a dolphin the first time but the next time was a very long bright white shiny thing atleast 10 feet long or longer that disappeared right before a log jam and appeared again on the otherside. I still think about what that could have been even now over 25 years later and I have no answer.
@@KCJAZZ60 it's amazing and terrifying at the same time having glimpse of massive creatures right before eyes. Appreciate your response to my comment, thank you.
@@KCJAZZ60one time i was at a water reservoir just sitting at a dock. then out of nowhere the water at the far side of the inlet i saw a huge wake come around a corner from farther in the lake. kept swimming toward me and around the area, it was about 25 feet long. most insane thing ive ever seen
maybe you need to call Jeremy from river monsters. you'll be on the tele...
Yep we really need him
hey I love to watch him on TV
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It's bigfoot with scuba. They should throw in a fishing line with a slim jim.
i lived in omaha fo 25 years, urban legend has it that when they built the bridge that connects omaha to council bluffs they had hard time finding divers for this reason
jerry arnold reason?? Like ... that there’s very big fish in there or was it because,the divers never came back up? Did they see something ? This is scary because I’ve seen northerns spawning in the spring and it makes me wonder how huge the biggest fish is in my lakes. I’m from northern Ontario. Sandy lake and out lake is pretty much on the shallow side but we do have some very deep areas and it makes me wonder
When ice fishing near spring time we always get Something that literally just takes the bait and swims away as if it was thread and we use 30-40lb line. Sometimes I’ll use sinew wax string and usually yank out the big walleyes no problem unless the hook itself straightens out from its weight but there’s something very big under the ice/lake
We have Northern Pikes, Walleyes, whitefish , suckers, the odd perch here and there and also Maria’s ( catfish eel like fish..yuck!! Just cut the line on that one) and we have way too much Gold eyes golden eye whitefish with teeth. And finally this one is a myth in our waters but elders say they did use to have them before. Sturgeons!!! But they’ve disappeared in the 1930-50s , Elders said they moved to the rapids .. but there have been sightings of something sturgeon like in the waters but no one has ever caught one ,, We have to revel far to get to them. But I’ve read about them and they can survive anything. Plus we have a clay bottom. I’m wondering if they’ve borrowed into the clay and are laying dormant til they feel it’s time to continue living Like a hibernation type thing for survival. I’m thinking it could be it. Come out in winter and go under in summer to avoid getting hit by props and boats I don’t just my assumptions. Lol. I like to think. But Anyway. Ever since I was 14 I’ve stopped swimming in our lakes on the account on my uncle and I set out a Gil net one early spring summer and the next mornings catch I couldn’t believe my eyes as my uncle struggled to get the giant northern pike onto the boat. Since then it’s made me wonder how big the biggest is and how big do they get? I heard they keep growing in size as long they’re alive.
Gregory Schwab I’ve got to look that up. About the muskellunge. I can understand catfish and Gar but I want to know about northern pikes and muskellunge. I’ve also seen huge suckers ( maybe 2-2 1/2 feet in size ) jump way up out of the water and never saw a predator around the area like at otter or fisher/mink. And to tell you the truth. I was 14 years old when I was with my uncle and I’m 44 now. I’ve only swam in the lake maybe twice in my life after that Lol. Scary
Dayam would've been a surreal experience being there in person. So intrigued as to what it was, definitely not a Sturgeon in my opinion.
Paddle fish
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mabey it was a fishing line giting blone in the wind
Kristina Warne maybe* blown* getting*
Maybe a "DuPont lure". (aka a stick of dynamite. Just kidding).
They could have caught a fish and find what it was.
mike48632 you right
It's a Bigfoot. He's breathing through a straw.
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I saw something almost exactly like that on the Columbia River a few weeks ago. I thought maybe I was seeing things, then I saw two of them yesterday. I have not been able to catch it on video but these also included a white spray right above the fish and they were even faster. I'm guessing sturgeon but if anyone knows for sure I'd like to know.
Hmm me no scientist but thats loch ness on a vacation.
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The swaying motion of this creature almost matches the motion of how a paddlefish swims to a point, yet the size leaves me astonished!
I know where ima be fishing for now on
Where is the fin
My Dad claims that down in southern Missouri out of the Mississippi River they caught a paddlefish that was as long as a 17 foot John boat.
Ha ha. That fish will gobble you up. You supposed to run the other way.
JEREMY!! THERE'S A PADDLE FISH TO WRANGLE
1:24. The fish whisperer over here. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣☠️💀
this is not no ordinary fish. fish gets spook an swim off when the boat is that close, but it still kept swimming and doesn't care about the boat.
Please tell me this isn't pure ignorance and is sarcasm
Never know what is in these rivers.
Bull shark...?
@@Mindcroscopethere’s a chance
Well... Im not sure what it is. But I have seen lake sturgeon pull off some impressive waves and crazy movement in the water. We do have +300lb lake sturgeon in the Missouri. I have watched them once or twice come up the inlet of the papio creek just south of Omaha during flood stages. Pretty rare though.
The Ponca talk about a giant river monster that lived in the river, that's actually what brought me here I wanted to see if there was any footage or possible pictures of it
Lol.. What ever it is it's stationary. When they shut off the motor they are actually drifting back down stream. Watch in the background every time they catch up to it the same white building is there.
Well spotted!
Good eye. This video is a fake.
Wow they never leave that bay dude it's a probably a rock in the water and they keep drifting back down what a fake video they never leave that bay
Good eyes bro. I just realized after reading your comment.
Ya its a submerged buoy. See them all the time. This fake. They messing with everybOdy
how is it a log if they said it stopped and changed directions?
Ikr if its a log then thats a long ass log (Thats what she said 😏*
Look carefully. It never moved at all. They were moving the boat in relation to it, not the other way around.
How can it move? Then
It was moving by the current they say they were headed up stream but the way the current can be seen moving says differently
Well Speaking Of Current, I Think the Boat Started The Current IN That particular Area. The Boat had Been Tured As Its Easy To Guess In The Film And Looks A lot Like The Boat Waves, As You Said It Can Look like Its Moving In One Derection Because Of The Angle The Camera Is At. I Really think This Is Boat Waves.
I guess they have never seen a navigation buoy pulled under by high water flow.
it’s just a big fish my guy
That's funny the fish never deviates its direction and I would have to say its a submerged log.
Kind of hard for a sumerged log to flow against the current,
It gives the illusion that it's swimming away because they cut their motor and drift down stream and away from it. I grew up along a river and have seen similar, just look at the bank of trees to the right, it never gains any distance.
Logs float on the surface. Theey do not submerge.
@@javaidhaider9289 I grew up along a River, logs do sink after a time when they're saturated with water. Also some get trapped below the surface and bob up and down with the current giving the illusion of something swimming.
Look at the house on the shore at the beginning. It was gone when they went upstream
seen something like this once. it was a log hooked up on the bottom. it did the same thing. shut off the motor and float down current, makes it look like its swimming away from the boat.
Finally, someone knows what they're seeing
been on the river more than once. you see a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense until you really look into it.
Hoosier Waterfowlers it's going up stream
Stephen Hollinrake was gonna say the same till I scrolled down and seen you took the words out my mouth lol
The water isn’t even barely moving at this part of the river. That water would have to be moving a bit faster to make a wake like that.
imagine swimming in the same water then you see this huge fish attack you.
If he/she is no a shark then that fish will have his/her hands full with me
@@raffysungarngar3684 Fish with hands that came from Chernobyl
I am scared of some big game, now I think of the dangerous fish in the Amazon River and the Missouri.
You can drive through Parkville at English Landing Park right down to the Missouri River. About fifteen feet off the shore there was a distubance in the water just like this. When the river was higher the surface would be smooth then suddenly swirl into a whirlpool sucking water a couple of feet below the surface. Then the whirlpool would vanish for a few minutes. People would step off the park's walking trail to stare at the spot, but that murky ol' river would never give up its secret. It was spookier than the devil! Eventually, during a lower river stage, divers discovered a dump-truck that had been stolen decades before and run off into the river.
You missed the opportunity to go FULL ON TURTLE MAN!!!
At 3:46 there is a slight silhouette of a fish. It’s hard to see because the color matches that of the water, but there is some visibility. If it was a buoy, the bump you see at this time stamp would be smaller.
yeah but people are ignoring that
it looks like a long snake because it was kind of moving in the motion of a snake or it was just waves
Most snakes stay above the water. Sea snake is only snake i know that breaths under water
Looks like a big paddlefish!
it almost looks like to me a bunch of big Carps getting together during spawning season
That's what I was thinking.
That's the loch Ness monster, that's what it is...
"I almost saw his head" lol
I was on the White River below Calico Rock, AR last Saturday, 10/7, with some friends and we witnessed the same thing. And yes we would like to know what kind of fish is this?
Must be a sturgeon at that size. Flippin huge
Wow! That was crazy big whatever that was. Did you ever figure out what it was? I never even seen a fish swim that way. That was really interesting thank you I'd love to hear back from you what that was?
I actually started looking these up because I was at S. Holston lake early one morning. No one was on the water yet and all the sudden I seen something huge moving underwater. The wake this thing made actually formed waves like a Big boat would make when its hauling butt on the water. I never got to see what it was but you better bet my kids didn't go swimming that day!!
@@adamsbrs260 Oh yeah. Lol you never know what's in that water. I know it sounds crazy but sometimes I wonder if things come out of underground springs from the aquifer? Makes you wonder if something lives down there and sometimes it comes up here? Thanks 😊
The American Paddlefish is my guess; they can be found in the Missouri and seem big enough. Maybe that or a sturgeon.
@@Gerelosagreed
Oh my grawd I am blind I can’t see it!!! :P
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A sighting like this at Loch Ness in Scotland would keep the tourist industry happy for decades lol.
Probably a very large Alligator Gar hunting for small fish near the surface.
Wouldnt it just try to attack them?
2:35 IF you pause there, its a shadow of The fish
Guys its a river marker under water the boats moving not it. At one point you can see the reflection from the tape on it
Giant catfish? Or giant sturgeon? Maybe a shark? I've heard those can travel all the way up the river from south
That is true. There is some history about the U.S Rivers where some species of shark head upstream for some freshwater snacks.
2:44 omg.. if u look closeley it looks like it has 8 flat fins with circles
MyBrainKeepsOverHeating • 7 years ago I saw it but it looks like the water reflecting the sun
@@dg787 wdym
I saw this clip too, watched over and over again, many years ago. That same feeling of disappointment and despair still prevails. Of not really knowing what magnificent, gigantic creature caused such wakes.
It's a buoy stuck underwater. The current of the river is giving an illusion that it's moving but it's actually stationary. When the guy pulls up to the "fish/creature" he cuts the motor and as the boat drifts back with the current it's giving an illusion of the submerged buoy swimming forward. It's not a fish/creature but a buoy stuck underneath water 😂
@@DUDEfreestylenot a buoy my friend. that is a fish.
I’ve seen this as well last year ! I knew I wasn’t trippin‼️‼️
My husband and I seen this exact same thing in the Missouri River near Washington Missouri
ok folks, i studied this several times and my findings are, lol.... if you watch from the begining and look to the top of your screen, you will see something white across the river, each time they shut the motor off, then you can see they are still across from that white thing again about the same distance, so my findings are ( A BOUIE )... thanks for watching...lol
+chicago guy and if you look at the trees on the right you can see they never get closer to them.
+chicago guy the shore is far away, you wont notice it change from their perspective because they're so far offshore. If they were like 100 feet from shore then you could go by the background and trees on the shore...but when you're that far from the land, you really dont notice movement unless you're moving greater distances than they're moving in this video
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Dude my attention span is so low I went from joe rogan to this in seconds.
Honestly, a few hundred pound alligator gar would probably do this when it swims at the top. I've seen lots of gar swim just below the surface. And as strong as gar can be, it seems to check out
They are turning off the engine and the river is pulling them backward but keeping the camera focused on the same shot making it look live its moving upstream. then they turn the boat on and move closer to the buoy and then turn the engine back off and float away from it.
This is obviously a submerged navigation buoy. The buoy is stationary but the Missouri River current makes them look like they are crusing upstream. See them all the time. This is a trick I play on our educational boat trip passengers. On the film, everytime they cut out the motor, the boat starts drifting downstream with the current (3.5 or more MPH on the Missouri River) and they guys are like "whoa there it goes!". You can tell by the landmarks on the bank of the river that they are not moving at all.
Missouri River Relief hes following it up stream
MRR. You're stupid
Great, next you'll tell us that santa Claus and sasquatch aren't real either
Exactly right, they move towards the submerged object, it is not swimming away, cut the motor, and they drift backwards, it never advances 1 inch upstream.
Makes no since
i am an astronomer , its clearly a snagged log , well spotted Devon Smart
brian heppell I assure you this is not a log sorry Im late
I've never seen any fish stay on the surface like that before. Especially when there's a boat right on top of them. Very strange, would like to know what it is. I think it would almost have to be a sturgeon or a paddle fish
It was dying (old age), hence the reason it wasn’t responding to the boat.
It's a tree or log..it's all a trick the river takes them back then they catch up again which looks like it's moving
Got big Gator Gar in there to. I've seen some 6ft long
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In my culture it's called a dragon 🐉...in your culture it's called loch Ness...ain't no god daym fish that big n long especially in a river
I have the exact same thing happen on the Kansas river last month, we followed it for two miles.
Had people try telling me it was a school of buffalo. Hahah that’s one single fish not multiple.
Its a colombian cocaine sub
Likely to be just a rock. Fish do not stay nearby when a noisy outboard comes near them. It also seemed to be in the same place and it did not leave the correct kind of wake for an animal swimming up stream.
I believe this is real, because in one part, you could see a fin or a part of “its” head bob out of the water, and if it was a log or something, it would most likely float at the surface. I am not entirely sure, but that is my guess
billschannel sent me here :)
Haha! Almost had me fooled till i watched again and saw the shoreline. it's not moving at all. Lol good one guys.
it’s a fish.
yo thats crazy still when i look at this, its got to be a giant snake or something like what can leave a wake like that?
Funny how it never maks any forward progress on the river. Every time you go to the head of the wake it lines up exactly with the same spot on the opposite bank. Always it that straight line. Never swims off when you approach it.
It's a damn log in the river.
Yeah the white sand island-looking or somthing😂
I live right off of the Missouri river and see things like this all the time. It's just submerged logs
Yeah when I see fish leave wake it's a continuous v shape. After reading that it looks like it's slightly bobbing
probably a submerged buoy.
Swimming upstream?
That wasn't Nessy, that was Messy. (from missouri)
You forgot your bow! Lol, Its a mini sub w/a tactical nuke!
Bill sent me here...
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Big Spoonbills / Paddle Fish will swim like this. I've seen some big ones in the Mississippi. I'd bet that's what it is.
Except it’s stationary it’s not swimming. Only thing moving is them.
I have friends pulling 3 and 4 foot flatheads out of the Fox River between Elgin and Aurora IL, so a 5,6,7 foot channel cat is not impossible. I've seen 7 foot sturgeon pulled out of channels/ narrow rivers. Just because you haven't seen anything like it yourself does not mean it isn't possible.
I agree. There are probably some huge river fish that we will never see.
Always weird when I see a comment from somewhere close by! I didn't know we had those here. I'm in saint Charles :D
@@SpiritofCliffhangers there are 52 inch muskies in that area north of the dam by Riverview Park. Same in Yorkville and Montgomery on the Fox River.
Its St. Charles Missouri, not Illinois.
@@SpiritofCliffhangers Its St. Charles Missouri, not Illinois.
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They are very popular in Germany they call them chirstmax fish. They was interduced over here years ago. As algae feeders but they love minnows n worms. Closer to a sucker fish.