Nessie & Aquatic Cryptids (4)
With all the news about the Alaskan Sea Monster, I decided to do some more research on the monsters of the Great Lakes. Being avid readers of Weirld, as I know you are, then you are already familiar with Bessie, the Lake Erie monster. Besides Bessie, there are c couple of other local legends from around the different lakes I wanted to inform you about.
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Sea creatures have always been a secret fascination of mine. When I was a boy (which some people will tell you I still am), I watched a documentary on Loch Ness and Nessie. That is what hooked me. I wanted to get pictures or catch a sea creature of my own, growing up near the Great Lakes only added fuel to the fire. The tales of Lake Erie's Sea Creature, Bessie, always kept my hopes up that someday I would find one. I still catch myself watching all the old documentaries about sea creatures in…
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March 17th is, of course, St.Patrick’s Day. But it’s also the feast day of Saint Gertrude a saint who had quite a few contacts with the ‘weirld’ in her time. Let's take a look...
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Lake Erie is the sallowest of the 5 Great Lakes, yet it contains one of the least known Lake Monsters in the world. Unless you grew up on the shores of Lake Erie, like I did, I doubt you heard much, if anything, about ‘Bessie’. She is said to be a snake like creature, 30-40 feet in length, approximately a foot in diameter and grey/blue in color. ‘Bessie’ is most often seen in the Western Basin and was first witnessed in 1817.
There are many skeptics around, they believe that ‘Bessie’ is large lake Sturgeon,…
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