July 18, 2007
Lake Kenosia’s Monster Caught.
Danbury, Conn., – The strange monster which has frequently been seen in Lake Kenosia has been captured. It is a monster serpent of an unknown species and its immense size was not exaggerated by those who saw it at various times. Warren C. Baker, a charcoal burner who has a pit near the lake, was driving along the shore last evening, when he found the serpent, lying dormant and nearly frozen on the sand. Its immense size frightened him, and he drove to the hotel for aid. The serpent was securely bound with ropes and brought to this city, where hundreds have seen it. Its length is 19 feet 8 inches, and its body is 32 inches in circumference. Its head is flat and its body is covered with scales of a black and brown color.Salem Daily News, Salem, Ohio, December 8, 1891.
Thanks for this historical item from Jerome Clark.
For more information, please see Chapter 8, “Giant Snakes,” in Mysterious America, the 2007 edition.
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.
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