Harriet the Lake Monster
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 14th, 2009
What is Harriet the Lake Monster?
Suddenly, last week, the following mysterious Lake Creature appeared on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota!
On July 16th this site promises a fun announcement!
And finally, one last image, taken by a local resident who is a professional and friend of Cryptomundo, credit DR Shoop Photography, is shared below:
Click to make it huge.
D. R. Shoop’s feels he knows who might be behind this:
The Loch Ness Monster has been spotted
<> on Minneapolis’ Lake Harriet. While some speculation exists, at least by a
joking guy interviewed by KARE-11, that the creature is part of a millfoil-abatement plan. My guess from looking at their website is
that it’s art. (It’s got a Twitter account, too.)The work has a striking resemblance to that of artist Cameron Gainer, whose sculptures — entitled _[ – have
showed up in Brooklyn, Key West, and other locales. Gainer, formerly based in New York, now calls
Minneapolis home; he’s engaged to Walker Art Center director Olga Viso. Next week we’ll see if I’m right: the project’s site says it’ll officially reveal details on Thursday.
See:
The Loch Ness Monster in Key West
and
Nessie on Holiday in Brooklyn. DR Shoop, July 14, 2009.
More mainstream media about this unexplained publicity stunt, here.
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.
Ha! Cleary NOT an otter! Unless the otters have taken up sculpting….
Nessie can FLY! LOL
deer ?
My first instinct when seeing the picture of “Harriet” is that it must be a mangy fox. Note the hairless body and the shape of the snout 🙂 However, upon looking at the pictures more closely, I would have to say that it is a very cool piece of art! Very nice!
You people are blind! That’s NOT a cryptid — it’s clearly some kind of common animal … baby moose maybe, or as sshep said, a deer.
You loonies always want to see something that isn’t there.
I mean, I know it’s exciting to see wildlife up close, but don’t let your imagination get the best of you.
Or else it’s photoshopped.
;-p
still looks like a piece of drift-fiberglass to me
sweet art, i wounder how they made it and how long it took, i would like to have one in my house or a mini one for my aquarium, it would be sweet! and i agree jmac75115!
judging from how blurry the photos are I would have to guess that its some sort of hunting dog dragging a baby moose snagged on a scuba diver back to its master who is photoshopping the pics at the same time.
Too many scoftics posting here! Go away! We don’t want your stinking mundane explanations!
This is certainly a photo of Nessie! We KNOW the Ness monsters migrate from time to time. (And sometimes, just in time to avoid wall to wall and end to end sonar scans. Nessie and family members are very smart!.)
That thing sure couldn’t fit in a plastic cooler! Sorry, Tom 😉
Clearly dritftwood.
Although, on second glance, it might be a “super-otter”.
Definitely a cryptid. 🙂
I think it is the Chupacabra taking a dip on vacation, or it might be my brother playing in the ditch with his dino toys again. He is 29, this has to come to an end at some point.
In the photo before the large one, it looks like its scheming something.
The photo seemed blurry at first but if you zoom in substantially, you can clearly tell by the subtle fur patterns that this is a Chupacabra, of the Texan variety of course.
I can’t tell: I think its Champ riding an ATV but it’s to blurry to tell… Seriously though, that is good art.
from its view of far away i thought it was real….but cool work of art. LOL