Mississippi Mystery On The Move
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 16th, 2009
“I was on the bridge picking up trash,’’ local resident Glen Miller said. “I was also looking for river otters along the bank when I looked back to the west toward the Back Bay. That’s when I saw a big wake, an oddball wake swimming along the shore.
“At first, I thought it was an alligator. But I could not really make it out because it never surfaced. I then saw what I thought was a tail and I knew it wasn’t an alligator.’’
What unfolded left Miller puzzled.
At first the “it” being seen was taken to be an alligator. Then the “it” turned out to be a something else off Mississippi.
The first sighting was inside the Ocean Springs Harbor before it moved north under the Biloxi Bay Bridge. Then it swam west into Back Bay and turned east toward Fort Bayou.
“We’ve had a sighting up in West Pascagoula,’’ said Claire Pabody of the Mobile Manatee Sighting Network at Dauphin Island. “And we had the one in the inner harbor in Ocean Springs. There is no way of knowing if [the Ocean Springs Harbor] sighting was the same mammal. We never were able to get any photos.”
But local photos in the area have been taken.
Manatees seen in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 2008.
Manatees sighted in Mobile Delta, 2009.
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About Loren Coleman
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.
