Seal-Headed Lake Monster
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 7th, 2010
Fort Wayne News
Fort Wayne, Indiana
August 8, 1913
TO CAPTURE STRANGE WATER CREATURE.
Frank Conners and “Daisy” Talmadge left this morning for Hoffman lake, where they will endeavor to bring in, dead or alive, a strange water creature that at time cavorts about the waters of the lake, within sight of fishermen, yet never close enough that anyone can determine to a certainty just what kind of fish or game it might be. Its presence has been known to persons who live in the vicinity of the lake, and to the visiting fishermen for ten or fifteen years, but it has been appearing more frequently of late and shopmen who spend weekends there have been devising some method for its capture, with the result that Talmadge has incorporated the suggestions of friends and ideas of his own into a contrivance that will bring in the mysterious creature. Some of the fellows say it is an alligator, but Bill Moeller maintains it is not. He says he was close enough to see it last Sunday [August 3, 1918] and that it has a head like a seal, and a bill of an owl, but the boys at the shops merely say “There ain’t no such animal.”
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.
