The next creature, out of Lake Superior is often referred to as Pressie. Pressie may be a relative of the Sea Panther, or one in the same creature. Pressie, named after Presque Isle River, where one of the greatest sightings occurred. The native Indians called this creature Mishipishu and referred to it as a spiky cat-like creature or serpent. modern sightings of Pressie refer to it as a serpent, or snake-like, creature with a horse-like head, body of a snake and tail like a whale, and being dark green in color.
There have been many sightings of Pressie, as usual, the written account is much better than the photographic evidence which is grainy at best. In the summer of 1981 in Munising, four children and teenagers, all siblings, observed a serpent showing 3-5 humps rising 1-2 feet out of the water (the slower it went the higher the humps). As it came within about 20 yards of the private beach, one of the children ran away crying and the animal headed away showing lower humps. In the middle 1990's, during the summer, fishermen watched in horror as a large aquatic animal pulled a wading buck deer under (leaving only it's severed head) near Point Iroquois, Michigan.
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