Lake Monster or Giant Snake?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 23rd, 2008
Milwaukee [Wisconsin] Sentinel
September 4, 1886
THE SEA MONSTER IN MICHIGAN.
Charlotte, Mich., Sept. 2. – Charlotte is somewhat stirred up over the report that a genuine sea monster exists in the water of Narrow lake, ten miles south of this city. The monster, it is claimed by the habitués of that vicinity, raises itself out of the water on moonlight nights to a height of ten feet and then disappears. Its body is said to be about the size of a stovepipe and its head to resemble that of a serpent. A party is being organized for an investigation.
(Thanks to Jerome Clark for this archival find.)
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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
interesting. Thanx
Still, if it can raise up ten feet out of the water, then it’s got to be significantly longer than that…if it’s a snake then we’ve got a biggggg critter on our hands, and if it ain’t then we’ve got a big crypto on our hands…
Should have a category “cold case files” for these.
You know, it might just be an over-fed snake? (doubtful) it might be a new species. I mean there are thousands, millions even, of animals out there we haven’t discovered. just because its big and different doesn’t mean its weird or mutated. i mean, we’re all different. Does that make us weird and mutated?