A Superior Monster
Posted by: Nick Redfern on July 9th, 2012
The beast of Lake Superior – Pressie – gets profiled in a lengthy new post over at Cryptid Chronicles and which, in part, says: “The native indigenous people called the serpent Mishipishu and it is seen in pictographs at various shoreline sites, either as a spiky cat-like creature or as a serpent. Modern sightings cite a serpent type creature up to 75 feet long with a horse-like head on a longish neck and a bilobate (whale-type) tail, and described as dark green to black in colour. The reported sightings go back centuries…”
And here’s where you can read the rest of the Pressie post…
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I’m familiar with this critter, though for me (even though it’s probably closer to my locale than most other USO’s), Lake Superior is too big of a body of water to really do any hunting. You’d literally almost have to be in the right place at the right time, and I want to increase my odds a little better than that (if you’d ever gambled with me, you’d know why:).
There was also a snake like critter seen in one of the other Great Lakes–even a photo, but I can’t remember off hand which lake.
Still, yes, there’s been an abundant number of sightings across the Great Lake area–I just prefer my sea critters confined to lakes…or lochs…
I grew up in the Lake Superior region, and while I know about the pictographs of Mishipishu (also known as the water panther), I never heard anything about “Pressie” until now. If something does exist, it’s probably incredibly rare. But it’s refreshing to see a different cryptid get the fuzzy photo and unreliable eyewitness testimony treatment!