This recent video is supposed to be a reported sighting of the Mekong River Creature. You will need to view it Full Screen to see any detail worth seeing.
The Mekong is the world’s 12th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km (2,703 mi) as it travels from Tibet through China and across much of South East Asia.
At around eighty feet at its deepest, I guess you cannot rule out such a creature for lacking anywhere to hide, and rivers have some advantages over lakes like Loch Ness in that they have a larger supply of fish available to feed larger unknown creatures. But then Asian cultures have a tradition of believing in river dragons and spirits which believers will say comes from the sightings of such creatures over history, and skeptics will say makes them a little less prone to question if what they are seeing isn’t maybe just an especially large Pangasianodon Gigas in shallow water.
Dragons are not the only mystery that surrounds the Mekong, mystery lights as are reported in various places around the world are also reported rising from the waters of the river.
Balls of light are observable from time to time rising from the water’s surface in the stretch of the river near Vientiane or Nong Khai. These are sometimes referred to as Naga fireballs. The locals attribute the phenomenon to Phaya Naga, Mekong Dragons. The balls are said to be reddish and to have diverse sizes from smaller sparkles up to the size of basketballs; they quickly rise up to a couple of hundred metres before disappearing. The number of fireballs reported varies between tens and thousands per night.
Of course anytime some unexplained sighting becomes a tourist attraction, it raises questions about its validity and the motives of those who report sightings.
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