August 21, 2009

Florida Muck Monster Filmed

This is breaking news out of Florida:

Partial transcript:

There’s something lurking just under the surface of the Lake Worth Lagoon.

Greg Reynolds of LagoonKeepers.org recalls, “Channel marker ten is the first time we saw the unknown creature.” “I hollered out…and said what is that? We followed it, started taking video.”

This mysterious creature was caught on tape by the LagoonKeepers.

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Reynolds calls it, “The elusive muck monster!”

Thomas Reinert a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Marine Biologist studied the video and said: “This appears to be one animal moving in this direction…nothing’s breaking the surface. Typically dolphins break the surface, sea turtles, manatee, a large school of fish, if it were a shark at that level you would see a fin.”

“I can’t definitely say what it is.” “I can speculate but we need more evidence to determine the identity of the Lake Worth muck monster,” said Reinert.

“We spend a lot of time out here on the water and seen a lot of different creatures out here and this is the first time in three and half years that I’ve ever seen anything out here that didn’t know what it was,” Reynolds said.

“We see dolphins out there, sharks, we always see a fin.”

Whatever it is, it certainly has people talking, and watching.

Reynolds jokes “Maybe Nessie’s vacationing in South Florida!”

The source of the above story, with the complete transcript, is here.

Thanks to Cryptomundo News Spotters Thomas Burke (3:00 PM E) and Mark Seymour (3:05 PM E) for sending this alert our way! And colpittsdragon2 for the video link right before 4 PM E.

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