Real Sightings
Submitted by readers who have had encounters with unidentified water dwelling creatures.   If you have witnessed something strange, share you experience with us.  You can send your stories here.
 
Added 2-1-05

This April 2004 me and my family went to Fintry Provincal Park  by Okanogan lake on the West Side.  My dad and brother walked off into the forest and me and mom went to the beach.  We sat there talking for a good thirty minutes.  There wasn't a boat in sight and the water was calm.  In fact we were joking about Ogopogo when we heard it.  It was an odd sort of splashing-paddling noise coming from about a hundred feet onto the lake.  We looked up and we couldn't believe what we saw!  We saw something dark sort of blackish-green swimming through the calm waters like a snake! We got to watch it for about fifteen to twenty minutes before a huge yacht came and scared IT off.  It don't know for sure but I think we saw Ogopogo!


Added 2-1-05

i was f
ishing about 40 miles off the coast of North Carolina in the edge of the guld stream.  as my father was driving back to shore for the day i stood on a cooler in the back of the boat so i was higher up.  as we were riding i noticed a light spot in the ocean i told my father to head towards it and slow down. as we drew close i could see that it was a large almost round creature (it was moving really slowly but im pretty sure it was alive) it was 10 to 15 feet long not quite as long as the boat we were in it was about 4 feet below the surface.  it must have been white or a light color to be able to see it in the dark water. almost like a manatee but i don't think manatees get that large or would be found there. as we drew nearer it sunk down deeper out of sight in the water.

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My family and my best friend and me went to this lake i don't rember the name but anyways my friend and i went out swimming we were so bored my friend kept talking about monsters and she knows i didnt even like hering the word monster then when we stopped talking and looked in front of us we were almost in to the middle of the lake. So we stopped and suddenly something poped up at the other side of the lake were the woods were it was in the lake every thing was blurry but our eyes cleared right away and we saw everything a little better anyways it had a large head and a very lond neck i was terrified my friend started laphing at me she said i was a chicken i saod that if you arent so scared why don't you go see what it was and she said fine and i told her it was just a joke but she went swimming directly to that thing my mom called out my name so i turned my back on my friend to see what my mom wanted and after that i turned back around to my friend and she wasn't there nether was that thing a was scared actualy terified i did not know what to do should i have tried to find my friend or go tell my parent's then suddenly something kept trying to pull me down so i kicked it with all my might and my frind came up her nose was bleeding and her mouth was to she had a bruse right awayso we went up to my mom to put some ice on her face when we got in the car i had asked her what was that thing she told me that she did not know that when my mom called me she also turned aroung when she turned back aruond to that thing that it was long gone she said that it might have been a log but i said or was it .Till this day i still wonder what was that thing was it a log or a sea monster/serpent the mystery goes on.    
                                               BabrDonny2004

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"I would have to say like 5yrs ago i'm almost 21, but anyways i was having some fun with my godbrothers and 3 of there friends this was mid afternoon around 3:00, And there is this big lake that also connects to the ocean over there my Godbother Graham has a medium pump up
boat that his grandfather had while still in the service it had a motor about 3.5HP.   But we were all out having lots of fun with the boat  cracking jokes we got somewhat far out but not to far
like maybe 2-300ft away from shore and we started to go back into shore and felt something big moving around under our boat,  One of kris's friends pushed me and i fell out of the boat and scared the crap out of me (now just to tell ya all I DONT LIKE THE WATER ANYMORE!!! cause what
happed to me i NEVER want to happen again) i got half way in the boat and all i saw was the look on my friends and godbothers faces and that i think frightened me the most then all i remember is being dragged underwater for about 15secs and fighting to get back i felt like these wet freaky things grabbing me and pulling down hard and i was screaming and kicking under, And when i i got back the surface i about jumped back in the boat i was scared stupid i almost felt numb with fear, I hope to all the people who have these experiences never have this happen to them  and even now i still have nightmares about it and i'm almost 21yrs old heh sorry will not go into unless it's man made or swimming pool where i can see whats there. I thought i was going to die that day and god
kept a close eye on me that day. 
And that would be my story that i wish i could never remember

energynova@yahoo.com 
 


 
Added 4-1-04   

About 1960 I was going to a camp on the Chesapeake Bay called Camp St. Charles. I was rowing a boat with several other guys in it. Along side a small island I saw what I thought was a huge snake. It came within 4 feet of the boat. Later in life I realized it was a sea serpent 
gbuckjr@redwoodburl.com 

 
 
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This summer, my family goes camping at a place only our family knows about in Lake Winnipeg, Mantioba. I was sitting on the beach with my cousin drying off from swimming. My aunties were cutting up a washed up net to get string and they heard a bout and looked out to the lake and i did and I didn't see a boat but i saw something. It was like a pleisiosauraus kind of thing its had a long neck and thats all i could see. I thought it was a loon but it was to far away and looked too big. It stayed up for about 10 secs. I asked anyone else if they saw it but I was the only one. This happened in summer of 2003.
dcook@mts.net

 
 
Added 4-1-04   

This is what I saw and how it happened.  Back in July 12-18 of 1994 we did a 50 mile hike with my uncles scout troop.  He asked my father in law and his two sons + me to come with him to help.  We started on Monday from Petit Lake to Alice Lake and we stayed the night there.  Then Tuesday we hiked to the Twin Lakes and Toxaway Lake then to Edna lake to stay the night.  The hike and the hundreds of lakes were so beautiful to see.  Well on Wednesday we hiked to Hidden Lake and then to lake Cramer were we set up camp and stayed the night.  Thursday we hiked to Flat Rock and set up camp to stay the night.  Friday we hiked to Redfish Lake  and we got there early in the day so we did some fishing whitch wasn't good because we didn't catch a fish.  So then we went swimming because it was so hot.  RedFish Lake is not the warmest water but it felt refreshing.  It is very clean and clear you can see the bottom till you get out to the deep part.  Well one of the scouts, dad came to the end of the lake in his boat and took us water skiing and tubing.  I was in the front of the boat and I was looking in the lake when I saw the water looked like a very big fish had took off under water very fast leaving the water turning.  It was about 4'x4' in size, so I was thinking, that was a very big fish.  When we got back to land I jumped out to hold the boat so everyone eles could get out to.  Then I looked out at the lake and I saw a large wake  about the size that our boat would make.  I first thought that it was from our boat but then I noticed a head sticking up in front of the wake.  So I asked my brother in law, what is that???  He looked and said it looks like a deer or a log.  Thats when I noticed it was long.   About the lenght of our boat.  As we both were watching this thing swimm across the lake.  We were trying to decide what it was.  The head looked to me like a horses head.  Then it went under and as its head went under the back come up and followed the head.  We sat there and watched to see if it would come back up. The thing never came back up.  My brother in law  and I both saw this thing so I know that I wasn't seeing things.  After the thing went under I kept asking him what was that??  Now, my brother in law don't beleave in things like this so all he could say was it was a log sinking.  I know it wasn't a log sinking because it had a head. I have never seen a log make a wake like that thing did.  Matter of fact I never seen a log foating at all when we were out there water skiing and tubing.  Also sence then I have watched birds, otters and beavers swim and they don't come close to making a wake the size this thing did.  I latter asked a Redfish lake Park  Ranger if they have ever had a lake monster siting or heard of one in Redfish Lake and She said she has not.  So Im hopping that if someone eles has had a sighting too. That they will report it .  All  I know is that there is something very big in RedFish Lake and I hope to see it agian someday but with a camera or video recorder. 
tbterry@safelink.net

 

Added 4-1-02  

In 1983, in Philippines, I saw what I thought to be a large snake while on a boat several hundred meters off the island of Boracay (which shares the same sea as Masbate).  The creature was about 50 meters or perhaps more from the boat and it raised it's head about 50cm from the surface of the water. The head was about 10-15 cm wide and indistinct from the neck. We stared at each other for about 10 seconds and then it disappeared. This was in daylight. I have a biology degree and worked as a fisheries officer and aquaculturist and have spent my life around wildlife and nature. If this was not a python, which does occur in Philippines, although it was quite large, I would say it was a plesiosaur-like animal.  Initially, I thought it to be a python that was moving interisland although I can't imagine there are too many pythons choosing to emmigrate this way and I am not aware of pythons lifting their heads so far out of the water to look around. Sea snakes, as far as I know, do not reach the size that I saw. It was alive so it wasn't a log. - J.Ooms@btinternet.com

 
Added 4-1-02  

My friend and I were fishing in a small rowboat (it had a motor, I am no expert on boats though.  All I know is that it is slow) in Lake Michigan on September 10th, 2000.  My other 2 friends were not too far away from us fishing. We had only caught one small fish and decided to use it as bait.  I stuck the fish onto my hook, and let the line drop.  No sooner then I dropped it in that I felt a sharp tug.  My friend grabbed the pole too and I slipped onto the string.  My hands were cut very deep when the pole was pulled closer to the water.  When we finally retrieved the pole, we realized it had given up and we still had the fish.  We decided to go back really quick.  Then our boat was tipped over and we were ejected into the water.  My friend immediately panicked saying that the "thing" in the water was going to get us.  We tried to tip the boat back but realized it was no use.  We scrambled onto the top of it.  I told him the last hope was to do what I saw in the movie Titanic: try to keep the boat balanced.  He sat on one side, I sat on the other, and we were scared out of our pants.  For about 15 seconds nothing happened, then the smooth sea bacame rough around us.  A little head stuck up in the water, about 1000 feet away from us.  It was slender and smooth, with blackish hair on it's "neck".  It had a long horse-like snout.  It was swimming to the left of us but kept its eye on us the whole time.  My friend started to freak again but I told him to stay still as it left.  We just waited and screamed our friends' names to come and get us.  We left our boat, and I wonder if it is still floating around, or if it became a meal for a sea serpent.  - STorM866@aol.com

 
Added 4-1-02  

I was stading at a large pond, (some 20 metres across, more like a small lake, but anyway,) Near a little town named Warwick, England, some time last year. I was atually watching the sun set with my family, when suddenly a saw a small ripple on the water's surface a few feet away from where my brother was sitting on the bank. I thought it was just starting to rain when a most peculiar thing happened. A very small dorsal fin emerged from the murky water. It ran through the water and disapeared. I asked my family if they had seen it but they hadn't. I couple of minutes later we all heard a small cry- like a dolphin. Searching around we came across a fish type creature with a tadpole like tail, It was black in colour and had a snout like an eels. It stared at us from the shallows with a cold glassy stare, then slowly and quite painfully started to rotate. I could remember when I had watched my countless goldfish do this over the years, I sure sign it was going to die. It was then I noticed a deep gash in it's back. The fish-tadpole tried to right itself as it's eyes clouded over. We desided to leave it to die in peace. But to this day I cannot imagen what I was. Nor have I seen any pictures of another creature like it. -  Janys.Turner@btinternet.com

 
 
Added 4-1-02 

Hello, I am Nora Jones. I saw Nessie in 1999, I am the first person to capture a screen image of a lake monster.  
I have traveled to your site several times since my sighting in 1999. I am impressed by the amount of sightings that you have accumulated and I am very interested that quite a few of them match what me and my family have seen on different occasions. I decided to send you my sighting.  

I think each of us have one true dream when we are children. I feel the outcome of turning a dream into reality is affected by how parents react to their children's ideas, hopes and interests in their dreams. Mine was to see the Loch Ness Monster before I died and even though I never seemed to see myself having the means to travel to Scotland, I never stopped believing that one day I would see her.  
I was very fortunate to have my mother to share my dream with. She was always attentive, patient and interested. I had a wild imagination and I could talk for hours.  
I was five years old when my mother started telling me of our families struggles and saga in Scotland. Of course, Nessie was brought into the conversation. From that point on I cared less about my heritage than I did about the dragon in the loch.  
As I grew, I read every book available about Nessie at school and the public library. I sat for hours with my mother discussing all the different animals the Monster could be. My Mother never shooed me away or said she was too busy to listen. We would sit for hours and discuss the possibilities. Having her guidance made me want to dig for more clues. Having her wisdom helped me learn skepticism.  
I got on the Internet in 1998 , after my mother, who has been with computers since the early 60's, decided to start her own business online. The Internet is very addictive and most people that surf, surf for information of interest to them. For me, it was Nessie. I looked for new pictures, articles, and anything Nessie.  
I found a site that said they had a live web camera. I was so excited, I was going to Scotland and the trip didn't cost me a cent! I went out onto the site and watched the camera for a few days. I really wasn't impressed because the camera was so slow it seemed to be still. I went back to my search for Nessie and I found the Loch Ness Live site. About two months before they set up their streaming web cam, I filled out a form so they could notify me by email when the camera was up and running.  
I didn't check my mail all the time and I got my notification on or around the 5th of June, 1999 and went out to the site. I was highly impressed. The camera was on a five-second delay and I could see the water moving. The camera spans the Loch at Urquhart Bay, giving seven different shots. I sat and watched the Loch for about an hour, mesmerized by the beautiful countryside and the ripples in the water. My husband and I went outside to sit in the wading pool to cool off. We live in Texas and the nights are hot and sticky during the summer.  
When we got back in the house he went to the television and turned on wrestling and I sat back down at the computer to look at the Loch. I looked up and I saw her.  
It took me a second to focus on what I was seeing. As I was seeing her, it never left my mind that it could be a hoax. However, I don't believe it was. The web camera was pointing toward Urquhart castle when this creature that was unlike anything I have ever seen before popped up from beneath the water about a quarter of the way between the shoreline and the castle. She had a long thick neck(about 10 to 15 ft high and about 3 to 5 foot in circumference) with a massive head and jaw (shaped like a horse/crocodile / dragon). She was cutting through the waters as gracefully as a swan. The waters at the base of the neck created a thick foamy v shaped wake that lasted long after she was gone. I looked, blinked (heart pounding), looked again and called my husband, Michael, over to the computer screen. I asked him as I pointed at her, "Am I seeing what I think I am seeing?"  
He came over to the computer, his eyes bulged out and he said ( he didn't ever believe until that moment.) "she's real, she's really real!"  
She was molted in color like a giraffe ( There seemed to be a definite pattern crisscrossing but it could have been the lighting and the water.) only the colors were burnt rust orange and green or gray and her eyes were so large, it made the rest of her face stand out vividly for me. It looked like there was a mane or some kind of fringe running down the back of the top part of her neck behind her head, but it could have been the water she brought up on her rising that gave that effect. I truly don't know.  
What I do know is she didn't look anything like a normal sized horse swimming through the Loch; that would have made her look smaller in comparison to the background and location. She wasn't a deer or a seal or anything an educated person would understand. The picture was almost medieval - she looked like a moat monster, a dragon in the water.  
We watched as she swam off the screen. I cried.  
First thing that ran through my mind was, "I am going to die tomorrow." I had prayed on several occasions to get to see Nessie before I died. The second thing that ran through my mind was it has to be a hoax, but it was too real to be a hoax. The third thing that ran through my mind as I watched her disappear off the screen with Mike, was I got to see her with him. My one true dream of 32 years realized and I was seeing it with my one true Love.  
Unfortunately I was very new to computers and I didn't know how to hit print screen, I was afraid to wake up my sleeping mother for fear it was a hoax and like all fishermen out there, all I have is the story of the one that got away.  
I took several pictures of her after I learned how to capture an image using print screen, however none of them are as good as what we saw that night. Mike and I are famous all over the world for capturing the first web image of Nessie. I have had to put up with a lot of scoffing and ridicule. My pictures and story are up on a site I created in 1999 (Click here)  
The image was so vivid, if I had the means to hire a good artist we could draw it line for line together, But I am not an artist and I am poor. After we saw her, I am convinced that 90 percent of all the pictures ever published are fake. Those pictures don't come close to what I saw. There are lists of sightings all over the Internet of lake monsters and many of them are very similar to what my family and I have seen of Nessie.  
I am not illiterate or stupid when it comes to size comparisons. I had the castle in the same shot to scale her by. She put the fear of God into me at the same time she brought a great peace.  
I still have one wish to complete, one true dream and that is to hunt (not hurt) and swim with her. I have no fear, she would know me. Mom says she is there for me but don't expect her to go out in the Loch on a boat.  

By Nora Clizbe-Jones  
questsearch@hotmail.com  
 

Text used with permission from the author. All rights reserved. 

 
 
 
 
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"One day (June 23 2001) my family and I were on vacation at lake Okoboji (in Iowa). We were at a small resort, with a dock.  I must make this clear, first: Okoboji is a huge lake. This lake was naturally made multiple dozens of thousands of years ago, and it is undoubtably hundreds of feet deep and possibly hundreds of acres from shore to shore. Anyways, my two children and I (one 10 and one 13) were sitting on the dock eating some icecream cones looking at the water. It was a calm evening, probably about 7:30 so it was still light outside but just starting to darken. The water was still, like glass, with ripples only from passing boats (no fancy boats, just normally cheap little things, and none came anywhere near close to us). When my 13 year old daughter nudged me in the arm and told me to "look here" and pointed at a waked spot in the water. it was churning, almost creating a small whirl pool.. A massive hump (well ok it wasnt that big but it was bigger than anything I wanted to see) slowly and gracefully rose out, about 1 foot away from the churning water. Then it moved quickly about 2-3 feet and rapidly went back under.  I remember it didnt have scales like a fish, more like a snake or maybe it had some kind of pattern that made it look like scales. It was dark dark dark greenish or blue. We were playfully "freaked out" while we watched for more, not thinking about the safety of us. Then, we saw a head... a very good-sized oval or sphere, a bit bigger than a bowling ball (but it wasnt perfectly round, it was like a lizard or a horse's head). The head arose, i could see it had the same pattern and colour as the hump i had previously seen. It had its head out and about 2 inches of its neck, and it swam very very very quickley through the water. The only part of its body that made the wake was its head, and i knew the creature must have been big, so it must have had a fairly LONG neck for its body to not disturb the surface. It swam probably a dozen yards, then its mouth opened, it appeared to take a gulp of air, then it went under. Just a split second later i saw the same hump role under the water, then i saw the last part of its tail  (it was a fairly stumpy tail) splash out. My children and I were too dumb-founded to say or do much. Then we saw its head again and it was coming toward our dock. About 1-2 feet away from the dock supports (the poles that hold it up), it went under. Less than a second later we felt a huge bump and a large "THUD" sound. The dock shook violently for a few seconds. By this time, we were terrified. we ran back to the shore as fast as we could.  -  SassafrasTea13@aol.com 

 
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My dads friend live on the shore of oakanogen lake and sometimes early in the morning she would she lumps in the water. she lived in that house for many years and she said she say it three times.  The picture Ed  Fletcher took of the ogopogo sea monster she described what she saw more real. She said she saw humps in the water and it was moveing with the waves. But you could she that it looked like an eal. Every time she saw it, it was in the middle of the lake it must not like comeing to close to shore. It would not stay there for long. One of the times when she saw it she ran to go get her parents but by the time they were outside there was nothing there. - radfordc@telusplanet.net

 
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"me and my family took one of those helicopter trips to the grand canyon from vegas when we there in may. we were on our way to the canyon and we were flying over lake mead. me and my mom were gazing out the window when i saw something in the water. i nudged  my mom so that she could see it also and we both stared. it was a long creature (it had to be at least 50 feet long) and what appeared to be the head was above water and the the rest of the body came above the water and then went below. the creature had a white tint to it, and at first i thought that it was a boat pulling a skier or something like that. then all of the sudden it disappeared under the water so i knew  
that it could not have been a boat. me and my mom both observed this. there were no boats or anything anywhere near it. it was truly amazing." - oceanminded2121@aol.com 
 

 
Added 8-1-01 
Date of unusual event: 5/21/01 
Location: Vancouver Southern Is. (30 miles out) 

Eyewitness account: 
         I am "Dolphin" as everyone calls me. I am a Marine Mammal  
Researcher. I study whales and other Ocean Life. I have never told this to  
anyone, not my boyfriend or my family. I was about 30 Miles off the coast of  
Vancouver, basically nothin' but me and the deep blue. I was following a pod  
of Orcas (killer whales). One morning around 8:45 am I went out for a dive,  
visability was clear. I went down about 104 feet, taking a few pictures of  
the local fish. The water was a very beautiful royal blue-green. If you were  
to look a bit ahead of you there was darkness. After about a half hour of  
swimming, I heard a strange sound. I know whales and this was not a whale,  
this was something and it was Big. (The sound was something like an Orca song  
mixed with a pilot whale.) 

  I looked around to see what it was, but when I saw the fish begin to scurry  
around that's when I began to swim a few feet up. I swam slow because if I  
didn't I would get whats called Nitrogen Narcosis (Nitrogen bubbles in the  
blood.) When I looked down again I saw something come out of the darkness. It  
was a very large creature. He or she was snakelike in appearance. The color  
was a grayish-black. The length of this creature was at least 45 - 55 ft. It  
probably weighed about 8 tons or so. It had a long neck (my guess 5-10 ft)  
and large eyes. It looked like it had scales and it had a fin for a tail. It  
was terrifying to look at an animal so big it seemed to be feeding. This  
creature was a once in a lifetime thing. This is why I wish I had taken a  
picture of it !! When I finally got back onto the boat I called my fellow  
biologists that were around the area and asked to see if they had seen  
anything unusual on the monitor. Nope! I heard there is a strange animal  
around here called the Cadborosaurus, I think that may be it? 

  As a Marine Mammal Researcher I. Love my job, but it all depends on what is  
seen and what is not. I believe in a lot of things-UFO's Giant Squids (I've  
assisted on a dissection of one found in nova Scotia it was about 30ft) and  
Sea Serpents. Take it from me if you ever take a trip out to Vancouver and  
the southern islands. Keep an eye out into the ocean you never know what you  
may see. - Litldolphn@aol.com 
 

 
Added 8-1-01 
A few years ago, I was camping at Norfolk at a holiday camp that I do not 
remember, apart from the fact that it had its own beach. 
What made this beach great was the fact that not many people went there, due 
to the high amount of better beaches around. 
A few days into my holiday, I decided to venture to the beach, taking my 
inflatable dinghy with me. 
When I was about fifty metres out, I saw, beneath the water, a long gray 
shape. It looked like a shark, the only problem being that whatever it was 
looked like it was about seventy feet in length. 
I started to paddle towards shore, scared out of my wits by what I had seen, 
when lo and behold, the creatures horrible triangular gray head, about 
twelve feet high, emerged from the water and bit down on my inflatable. 
I jumped off, swam to safety, and looked back. 
The giant shark and my inflatable were both gone. 
Nobody believed me when I told them, and I haven't talked of it since. 
Now, I am no expert on sea creatures, but I know that no sea creature grows 
that big. - manby_c@Intranet
 
by bates@characterlink.net    5-1-01 

   "I was standing in the gazebo, looking out over a pond at Powhatan Plantation (a condominium   complex) in Williamsburg. Suddenly, my brother exclaimed, "Daniel,look at this!" I looked where he was pointing, and I could see a long, very pale (almost whitish) neck sticking out of the water. I watched it for about a minute, and then it went under. A few minutes later, my brother said, "Hey! There it is again!" (My brother is clearly more observant than I am.) I looked over, and, sure enough, there was the neck again. Obviously, I was starting to wonder what this thing was, and I was hoping I could get a look at the rest of the animal. Well, my wish came true a 
few minutes later. I looked over at an area of the pond where it was shallow enough to see the 
bottom, and, lo and behold, there was this turtle walking around on the bottom with about a 
foot-long, pale, whitish neck. Its shell was not quite a perfect circle, a little longer than wide, and it appeared to be a uniform brown. (Now, I was looking through a few inches of muddy water, so I probably wouldn't have been able to see any details anyway.) Also, it appeared to be relatively smooth, not lumpy like a snapping turtle's. It's also important to note that this turtle's neck was about a foot long in ordinary life. He didn't just stick it way out when he needed a breath of air - he was leisurely walking around on the bottom with a foot-long neck. I 
also noticed that he had a comparatively long tail - about six inches long. That's obviously not 
as striking as the neck, but it is longer than the average turtle's tail. I didn't get a very good look at the face, but I can say for sure that it didn't have a "snout" like a softshell turtle. (My brother says that its face was "kind of pointy," meaning that it tapered from the neck to the nose.) 

   Well, that's all the information I gathered from the few times that I saw this turtle. Even 
   though it doesn't appear to be anything in the U.S. field guides, the thought has crossed my mind that maybe Powhatan Plantation has stocked their ponds with foreign turtles. {I have since 
disproved this theory; I called them, and they said they don't stock their ponds with turtles.} (In one book about reptiles worldwide, I noticed a species from Australia that had a very long neck, but I didn't give it a second look, because it doesn't live in the U.S. Therefore, I don't 
remember anything about what it looks like, other than the long neck.)  I sent this same letter to another National Wildlife Refuge, and they suggested that it was probably a softshell turtle, but I've seen those before. First of all, this turtle's shell looked normal, as opposed to the "rubbery" look of a softshell. Secondly, as I mentioned before, it didn't have a long "snout" like a softshell. (I saw the head of the turtle out of the water, as it breathed, so we can rule 
out view distortion caused by the water.)"  If anyone's in southeastern Virginia anytime soon, look closely in the ponds! This summer, I'll be going back there and hope to get some video footage.

 
by peachboy_2000@hotmail.com     5-1-01 

"Well this is a true storied. My grandfather who is still living in Laos right now did witness a sighting of a Giant Sea Serpent( like a Ogopogo) when he was a teenager (it was like 60 years ago). Here goes the stories, back then before the war started, my grandfather and his family live up almost half way to the top of a mountain, and some days he would cross a bridge just to get to the other side so that he could let the goats and sheep to gaze. Then one day when he was returning home from the other side with a brothers of his crossing the bridge, suddly the rain pour and the cloud became dark. They then let the goats and sheep cross the bridge first. While they were half way to the other side, something emerge from the dark water and took one of the goat. But then the goat's horn got caught in the serpents neck and so the serpent went back in the water ........ by now my grandfather and his brother were scare, they rush the herd, and finally reaches the other side, before long the serpent came back out and was trying to get my grandfather, so he shoot it 3 or 5 time to the head with a gun I guess and the thing went straight down in the dark water ..... I don't know if it die or not. But my grandfather said it look like a snake but much much bigger. That's all I heard from him."

 
by sh1416@schoolofhope.org    5-1-01 

"hello my name is Loisha ring and i live in westerose alberta canada 
and last summer my sister and i saw a water monster in a lake called 
twin lakes its a big  and deep diving  lake we like to swim there its 
about 300 feet deep.my sister and me went swimming and saw a very  
big fish or so we thought it was about 26 feet long  and it had 2 fins in  
the back and and 2 in the front it looked like it had horns it also had a 
very long tail  but i couldent see very well as of i was swimming away 
as fast as i could i call it ursolotto  i have mot visted the lake since"

 
by aortuff@hotmail.com    5-1-01 

"i am american ,but i leave in Italy exactly in Venice 
i was near one of the lakes called Canale Maggiore 
i was just taking a walk ,i do everyday 
i must say i am sensitive and fear of what i don't see 
but.... 
i was terrified that day ,because i heard the water splash, 
i looked at the houses ,maybe was a guy throwing something 
in the water ,but not , the water splashed so hi i got  
wet , i run away a little (don't ask distances) ,i was terrified 
i saw something come out , a head and directly saw the body, 
i can assure that the distance was very near (ok i give in) 
about 8 metres from the shore, that thing was standing still 
with it's head up ,at that time i was sure it was a sea monster, 
my heart was pounding so fast i could not breathe , 
because i thought it was a DINOSAUR, i am a bank manager 
and believe me, i don't need money or fame ,but that is the truth, 
that monster came waving snake like ,had pins on the back, 
came over me and made one of the most fearful sounds you can 
immagine , like a roaaarhumpf , half lion - half GODZILLA, 
of course i run away about 15 metres from shore, 
that thing CAME OUT ,yes ,CAME OUT of the water with his head 
and swallowed in front of my eyes a gondola , 
his teeth was kinda hundreds all sticking near the other, 
i watched it from the when came out to that moment for about 
6 minutes , then he went underwater fast 
i saw him go up again ,he was like many curves and bumps, 
3 - 4 bumps wavy like his body , and that was it he desappear, 
i was simply terrified that i took a bus direct to VICENZA 
(FAAAAAR from the sea) , i went to a doctor suffering  
diziness and headaches , i told the doctor about it 
and said , what you saw could may well be a surprise for  
human kind , i suspect what u saw ,but... never say never. 
i told my family about it , and said i may have seen  
something called OGOPOGO , and that people are trying to  
prove the existence ,i was simply shocked ,why to me?? 
so i searched on internet (sites sucks) , i found your good site 
and decided to write to you , i never believed in that things, 
but from the testimony of people and after discovering it exist 
even something called LOCH NESS in scotland ,i am sure 
that what i saw is real and sea monster exists for real, 
my life has changed and i may never sleep good again, 
i saw OGOPOGO ,whoever it is!! 
i am 39 years old  and 
one i know one thing , i should have never had to go for that walk, 
that day , because now i have the prove the end of the world 
is near ,the signs are clear......SEA MONSTERS!!"

 
 
by thetimes@milwaukee.tec.wi.us 

I am a 21 year old male living in the Waukesha area of Wisconsin, but I 
attend school at the Milwaukee Area Technical College in Downtown 
Milwaukee. 

About 2 summers ago, I left school early to do some fishing in nearby 
lake Michigan.  A wealthy friend of mine owned a house along the lake 
(you have to be VERY wealthy to own land around lake michigan, 
overlooking the lake). 

Anyway, he had a small motor boat which we took out on the lake.  It was 
bright summer day, but I could see it was starting to cloud over.  

We took the boat about 350 yards off the shoreline and dropped our lines 
in the water to fish.  We were, in no way, experienced fisherman, and so 
we were just using a bobber, like we were fishing in a pond.  I learned 
later that "real fisherman" don't fish Lake Michigan with a bobber. 

Anyway, we were out there for about 3 hours just chatting and drinking 
soda. WE WERE NOT DRINKING ALCOHOL!  My friend's dad is a very bad 
alcoholic, and so he HATES ALCOHOL. We had no mind-bending substances in our systems when this happened. 

Well, the clouds got darker and it started to rain and we could hear 
thunder, so we decided to head in.  We had stringer slung over the side 
of the boat in case we caught anything.  Well, as I leaned over the edge 
of the boat to pull up the stringer, I saw this huge black shape go 
gliding by under the water.  I almost shit my pants!  I jumped back 
because I thought it was going to come up out of the water, that's how 
close it was to the surface!  

My friend laughed and said it was probably a big fish. When he went to 
get the motor started on the boat to head back to shore, I looked out 
across the water and saw this serpent like head break the surface.  It 
was moving really fast across the water and its nose was pointed up 
toward the sky like it was basking it's face in the rain.  My friend was 
watching, too, and then it submerged back into the water. 

I swear this story is true.



 
by StalkingMoon@webtv.net 

Hello, on Memorial Day Weekend in 1978 I was camping at Presque Isle camground north of Ironwood, Michigan, with a friend.  I don't remember if it was Saturday or Sunday but it was a beautiful morning and Lake Superior was like glass.  Visibility was remarkable when looking out across the Lake; and distant land was visible.  There's a trail that leads east from the campground which crosses the Presque Isle River that I was navigating,  however; the bugs were unbearable,  and I headed north 
towards the lake hoping that walking along the beach would be more comfortable.  
     When I reached the treeline there was the beach but about one hundred feet below me. The slope leading to the beach was close to a 45 degree angle with short dead trees protruding from the moss covered rock, and come to find out also very slippery.  It's still amazes me to 
this day how I was able to control my slide and with a full backpack.  I sheared off some of the scrub trees on the way down.   Then again I was young and  ex- perienced having had extensive background in forestry; and working in Idaho and Montana.  I was twenty-six years old then and now I am fourty-six-----fourty-seven next month.       The beach was maybe thiry feet from the waters edge to the the slippery slope and as I continued to walk east sometimes no beach at all.  Instead there was water with tangled lake debris amid dead standing trees.  The water was knee deep to waist deep but difficult to get through; and as I think about it I'm glad "it" wasn't lurking in there.  After crossing through a couple of these beach barriers it was clear beach as far east as I could see; and I stopped by a 3'x3' boulder, sat, and began to east lunch.  
     When I looked straight out to open water I saw two very distinct dark bumps which  seemed to be seperated by just a few feet.  First, one bump would go underwater then the next bump would do the same, but only after the first one surfaced.  I had a 20x spotting scope with me and couldn't quite make out what they were.  Then they began to move 
east and to my left; one bump going under and then the other, but one bump always stayed on top of the water while the other submerged. 
    It became frightfully apparent to me that this object was close to one thousand feet out and as it gained speed I realized there was a third smaller bump, and that the oject was undulating.  It moved very rapidly "VERY RAPIDLY"  to the east and quartered towards and nearly up to the shore.  The now obvious living thing stopped maybe several hundred feet from me and began moving and weaving around large boulders that were in the water, and directly towards me.  IT WAS BIG  and resembled an anaconda with the girth of a volkswageen.  Don't laugh it wasn't funny. 
     There was no where to go for me because of the slippery slope and the water barriers so I jumped behind the boulder and grabbed by 
35mm Yashica.  As it moved towards me it slowed down considerably but was making a noticable wake.  It was strangely quite while it 
snaked towards me and stopped dead in the water, right in front of me.  IT WAS BIG!  I steadied my camera on top of the rock and fired one picture but was afraid to move after that.  The thing sat there for about thirty seconds with its huge horse shaped head and large dark left eye staring at me.  On the nose was a visible catfish type whisker, maybe 
two feet in length and wiggling.      I don't talk to many people about it and have the original negative which I used to make an 8x10.  The picture is high quality and every-thing plus more makes it quite a conversational 
piece.  Incidentally a Doctor Reines from the State University of New York in Plattsburgh,  New York has an 8x10 I've sent some twenty years ago.  The picture is copyrighted so he didn't pursue purchasing the photo, atleast that's what I think.     At the time of the incident I lived in northern Illinois but now ironically live in Michigan and only several miles from Lake Superior.  Two 
summers ago and not far from where I live, now, recreational fisherman observed a large something bite a buck deer in half while it was wading in the water near Sault Ste. Marie. An indian friend of mine has the newspaper article.  
     May I also add that seeing these creatures is in indian legend.  Legend has it that indians observed the creature do the same thing I did; 
and legend further adds that when It stops in the water sometime gulls mistake it for a log and land on its nose.  You can guess what happened to the gull. 
    Furthermore and finally, people disappear near Presque Isle River occasionly and are never found.  It's attributed to the undertow (???).  I don't swim in any deep water lake anymore and occasionally have nightmares of being consumed by the thing I saw.

 
My mom's co worker who doesn't belive in anything let alone somthing like Ogopogo, went on a weekend boating trip with three friends.  They were on the water and sometime throught the day he began to smell a really strong fish smell or somthing close to that.  He stood up and looked around and after a little bit of looking he saw a big patch of water about six to ten feet away from them begin to churn, then a minute or so later this serpent like creature.....oh hell with it Ogopogo popped it's head out of the water and looked straight at him, looked at the others looked around and then dove back under water.  This needless to say scared the s**t outta him and they drove off and back to the shore. - airfire@nisa.net
 
Me and a few friends went fishing, we always went in a way so we got to the  
deepest water were the best fish were. We were fishing, and it was a nice  
calm day, no wind or anything, so, i was watching out alittle further than  
the spot my line went out to, and the water had ripples that moved across the  
water, Just one set of ripples that just moved, and i kept watching it and  
somthing dark popped up, well, it seemed like the back of it, it was a long  
serpent like creature with little spined on its back, and moved fast but slow  
enough to notice it. then after a couple seconds it went back under and the  
ripples never showed up the rest of the day, or the serpent creature. If you  
think i was drunk or sumthin, guess agaiim a 13 year old kid so i couldnt be  
drunk. This story is TRUE! 
- AxeLBomB@aol.com
 
 
IT WAS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC IN A MILITARY FLIGHT FROM FRANKFURT GERMANY TO  
PHILADELPHIA WE WERE AT A HIGH ALTITUDE AND WITNESSED LARGE OBJECTS IN WATER  
A SCHOOL LIKE FORMATION SIMILIAR TO WHALES THE ONLY INTERESTING THING ABOUT  
THIS WHEN NOTICED WAS THEY WERE VISIBLE AT A HEIGHT OF OVER 15,000 FT. THE  
PILOT CAME OVER THE SPEAKER SAYING THEY WERE WHALES IVE SEEN WHALES FROM THE  
AIR BEFORE AND THESE WERE NO WHALES FOR ONE WHALES DONT SWIM  WITH HALF THERE BODIES OUT OF THE OCEAN FOR SEVERALLY LONG PERIODS OF TIME ALSO WHALES AREN'T  
SNAKE LIKE SHAPED. I COULD BE WRONG BUT IF SO I'VE NEVER NOTICED ANYTHING  
LIKE THAT BEFORE. -  BCM2568@aol.com
 
IT WAS ON SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 MY HUSBAND AND I WENT TO THE FISHING PIER AT LAKE NOCKAMIXON STATE PARK AT ABOUT 8:45 AM TO FEED THE DUCKS.  AS WE WERE SITIING IN THE CAR AND WATCHING THE WATER ON THE LAKE I SAW SOMETHING THAT LOOKED LIKE THE WAKES THAT WOULD COME AFTER A BOAT HAD PASSED. THE WIND THAT DAY WAS BLOWING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION SO I KNEW THE RIPPLES IN THE WATER WERE'NT CAUSED BY THE WIND AND THERE WAS  
NO BOAT IN THE AREA AT ALL.  I KEPT MY EYES ON THE WAVES FOR ABOUT A MINUTE BEFORE I SAID TO MY HUSBAND,"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT SWIMMING IN THE WATER?"  HE SAID,"I DON'T KNOW BUT WHATEVER IT IS, IT IS HUGE!" IT WAS APPROXIMATELY THE SIZE OF A SMALL VOLKSWAGEN CAR.  WE KEPT WATCHING IT AS IT SWAM BY US AT A PRETTY GOOD PACE. WE WATCHED IT FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES THEN IT DISAPPEARED. AFTER LEAVING A FOOT HIGH WAKE. WE HAD JUST GOTTEN OUR FIRST VIDEO CAMERA EVER AND THIS WAS THE ONE DAY MY HUSBAND DIDN'T BRING IT WITH US.  WE HAVE BEEN OVER THERE A FEW TIMES SINCE AND HAVE NOT SEEN IT AGAIN.- NHOJ3MTA3@aol.com 
 
I have told this story in parascopes' creature site, and now relate it to 
you.  In 1968, I was stationed in the army at Indian Town Gap, PA.  There is a 
small, 10 or 15 acre lake named Marquette.  I believe the pases water supply 
is drawn from it, and it sits at the base of the mountain which overlooks the 
base.  During the summer, my friends and I spent many hours on and around the 
lake.  One day, two of us were using drop lines from a small bridge that 
connected the pumpstation to the shore.  About thirty feet of water was 
between the station and land, and the bridge was eight or ten feet off the 
water.  The water was deep, at least six feet, at that point.  We noticed 
something floating towards us.  It was an opaque object, white in color, and 
we saw that as it got closer it resembled a coil of a giant tube about two 
feet in diameter.  The coil was humped up on the surface, with the rest of the 
tupe trailing into the depths on either side.  When it floated under us, my 
friend snagged at it with his line, pulling off part of a skin like material. 
We had a paatch about twoinches square, composed of pentagonal scales 
connected to one another on each side.  The scales were nearly transparent, 
about a half inch across, with a small black dotin the center, from which 
raised lines of material radiated out to the edges.  The edges of the scales 
were also outlined in black, and the material was fishy smelling, so bad that 
we just threw it back into the water, not thinking it was something important. 

Two weeks later, we found a larger sample near a boat house.  This had an 
eight inch piece of "skin", and attached was a five inch thick layer of clear, 
jelly like material.  We poked at it with sticks, and it was just like 
jelatin.  We could stir up lumps in it, but all of it was clear.  No one knew 
what it was, and I've always assumed I could identify this, but nothing has 
ever turned up.  The lake is still there as far as I know, and It sure would 
ber interesting to find out what the heck this is - Mr4440@aol.com

 
In September 1987 we were staying on Malta in a place called Bugibba. 
Because our flight home had been delayed we went for a walk along the seafront, this 
was at about 2.00am.   As we walked towards the seafront we saw a cream coloured  
creature, that resembled a very large llama with a long neck sitting by the rocky shoreline. 
At first we thought it was a statue until it moved its head slowly from side to side.  
We estimate that it was probably 100 metres away from us.  Once we saw it move its  
head we were a bit wary to go any closer considering the hour of the morning. ( We  
were a bit scared too ).  
We are wondering if anyone else has had any similar experiences in or around Malta 
as this has baffled us for over 11 years. 
If you have please email us at pauline@copland33.freeserve.co.uk

New Sightings Below  added 4-1-00

I must confess, I used to live in that area of Michigan.  In 1965 I was 
in my father's fishing boat in the Paint River.  My father was raising 
the nets just as the boat began to shake.  After the chaos had ended the 
net slowly rose out of the water, however, the net had disappeared and 
the hooks that had once been holding the net had been gnawed away.  
A few seconds later we saw only one hump rise out of the water.  It seemed 
eel-like and slithered away.  I can't remember how long it was but it 
was at least the size of my father's boat.   - anonymous
 
My experience was when I lived in Maine.  At my house, I had a slightly 
large river.  One day when I was crouching down to pick up an insect out 
of the water, I fell in.  I instantly felt something tugging on me.  I 
looked into the muddy water.  It was hard to see, but I can remember 
seeing a distinct shape wrapped around my leg.  It was dark black in 
color, and seemed to have a long, slender body.  It was atleast 6 feet 
long.  I could not see any fins or eyes.  I was probably 3 or 4 feet 
tall at the time.  I screamed and jumped out of the water.  I never went 
near that place again. - okaw@home.com
 
WHEN I WAS A BOY I GREW UP IN THE AZORES  MY FATHER  WAS A WHALER IN THE  
ISLAND OF ST.GORGE  AND HE TOLD ME SOME STORIES THAT ONLY TODAY  I CAN MAKE  
SOME SENSE OF . HE TOLD ME ON ONE NIGHT, THEY HAD A WHALE IN TOW AT ABOUT  
MIDNIGHT THEY WERE SLEEPING MY FATHER FELT THE BOAT RISING WHEN HE LOOKED UP  
HE SAW  THIS BIG FIN JUST A FEW FEET FROM HIM IT WAS A WHALE . LET ME TELL  
YOU MY FATHER WAS A  FISHERMAN  AND HE KNEW  HIS FISH! HE COULD TELL ALMOST  
ALL FISH APART , AND THIS BAD BOY WASN' T KNOWN TO HIM OR THE OTHER MEN THAT  
WERE  WITH HIM ON THE BOAT.  THE  AZOREAN WHALE BOAT IS  35 FEET LONG  AND  
THIS FISH  WAS a lot BIGGER THAN THAT.  IN THE MORNING  WHEN THEY  LOOKED UP  
AHEAD TO THE TOW  MOTOR BOAT THERE WAS  SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE DEAD WHALE  
IT HAD A LARGE WOUND ON ITS SIDE WHICH MEASURED 10 FEET DIAMETER.  THE WHALE  
ITSELF WAS  A BIG MALE SPERM WHALE  HE WAS 40 FEET LONG . .MY FATHER  HAD  
ONLY TWO OFF THESE  ENCOUNTERS, IN  HIS 40 YEARS  FISHING THESE WATERS. THE  
SECOND  SIGHTING TOOK PLACE SEVERAL  YEARS LATER  MY FATHER  MY FATHER HAD TO  
GO TO THE NEAR INLAND OF PICO, TO PICK UP WHALE MEAT FOR BAIT  . PICO IS  
11MILES FROM  MY ISLAND    AND ITS A NICE TRIP ON A CALM DAY, PICO IN THOSE  
DAYS , IS WERE THEY  CUT  UP THE WHALES  FOR  THE OIL  SO ALL THAT BLOOD WAS  
ALWAYS  GOING OUT TO SEA . THE OCEAN AROUND THE AZORES IS VERY DEEP AND IN  
THOSE DAYS   THERE  WERE ALOT  OF STRANGE SIGHTINGS .YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER  
THE  LATE SIXTY'S EARLY SEVENTY'S  IN THE AZORES  WHALING WAS A LARGE  
INDUSTRY IN THOSE DAYS  THE WHALES  WERE BEING  KILLED BY THE HUNDREDS,  AND  
THOUSAND OF GALANS OF BLOOD WAS BEING  SPILLED INTO THE OCEAN  .BACK TO THE  
STORY  THE BOAT WAS A DOUBLE ENDED  INBOARD ENGINE 35 FEET LONG AND  8 FEET  
OF BEAM  AND LIKE ALL FISHING BOATS OF THE ISLANDS OPENED, THAT DAY  
THIEY,WERE COMING INTO THE  HARBOR AND THEY  NOTICED THAT  THEY,HAD  A  WHALE  
CARCASE ON THE HARBOR   CRANE  IT WAS DRIPPING  THE REST  OF THE  FAT  AND  
BLOOD INTO THE HARBOR  MY FATHER SAID THAT  DAY THERE WAS A GOOD TRAIL OF  
BLOOD THE TIDE WAS TAKING OUT . WHAT HAPPEND  THEN  IS THIS MY FATHER  LOOKED  
 BACK OUT OF THE HARBOR AND HE SAW THIS TAIL FIN, JUST BEHIND THE BOAT. WHEN  
HE LOOKED OVER THE SIDE  HE FROZE  AND IMMEDIATELY TOLD HIS FRIEND TO KILL  
THE ENGINE OR THEY WOULD  DIE. THE GUY DIDN'T  UNDERSTAND AT FIRST  WHY  MY  
FATHER WAS SO  NERVEOUS UNTIL MY FATHER TOLD HIM TO LOOK OVER THE SIDE THEY  
SAW THIS BLACK SHADOW  JUST BELOW,   IT WAS ALOT BIGGER THAN THE BOAT. WHAT  
HAPPEND  NEXT IF HE WASN'T MY FATHER I WOULDN'T BELIEVED HIM, HE SAID THAT  
THIS SHARK  WENT TO THE CARCASS   JUMPED  OUT OF THE WATER  GRABBED THE  
CARCASS SHOKE BACK AND FORTH  UNTIL THE  CRANE GAVE WAY AND BENT INTO THE  
HARBOR. MY FATHER SAID THAT THE  SHARK  WAS BLACK WITH A SQUARE  HEAD, AND A  
GRAY BOTTOM  FULL OF BARNACLES AND HAD AN ENORMOUSE DORSAL FIN . EVERYBODY ON  
THE DOCK JUST WATCHED IN HORRER, BUT THAT WASN' T THE END . AFTER FEW  HOURS  
THE SHARK  HAD GONE AND MY FATHER AND HIS FRIEND FELT IT WAS SAFE TO RETURN  
HOME, THEY DID  THE  COMPANY A FAVOR AND TOWED THE REST OF THE CARCASS TO THE  
 DEEP CHANNEL  TO  LET IT SINK TO THE BOTTOM, THEY NO,SOONER CLEARED THE  
HARBOR THAT THEY NOTICED THAT THEY  WERE  MAKING NO HEADWAY  IN FACT IT  
LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE GOING BACKWARDS. A LITTLE AT FIRST THEN ALL MOST TO THE  
POINT  THAT THE TRANCEM WAS GOING UNDER ,THEY LOOKED BACK ,TO THERE HORRER  
,THE SHARK  WAS TAKING  THE CARCASE UNDER .  MY FATHER GRABBED THE AX  AND  
CUT THE TOW LINE LOOSE JUST IN TIME ,TO SAVE THE BOAT. THEY BEARLY ESCAPED  
WITH THEIR LIVES ,TODAY MY FATHER  STILL SAYS THE THAT WAS  A VERY DEEP SHARK  
THAT CAME UP FROM DEPTHS  ON THE RICH,SENT OF ALL THAT BLOOD AND  
,BLUBBER,THAT WAS VERY COMAN IN THOSE DAYS . I WROTE  GODS  HONEST  TRUTH.MY  
FATHER IS STILL LIVING TODAY AND HAS A FEW MORE STORIES TO TELL. - Louzetania@aol.com 
 
August 14, 1999, Saturday 1:15am.  Location of Sighting: Sacramento, 
California - Street Crossing: Riverside Blvd & Clipper.  On this night 
couldn't sleep too well and decided to take my Chow dog T-Rex to the 
Sacramento River levy for a small walk, hoping that this would help me get 
some sleep.  As I was walking along the levy, I heard what sounded like huge 
rocks dropping into the river.  It was a continuing noise that occurred 
every 2 minutes.  I took a look closer and saw a snake like object swimming 
in the river, about 20 to 30 feet in length.  This snake like creature was 
doing something out of water with it's body, causing the loud splashing 
noise in the river.  When I threw rocks at it, it would instantly make the sound of 
diving into the water.  At one point of time, when we were at the edge of 
the river and my dog was lapping water from the river, it edged close to us 
and I took my dog and backed away.  -  Silhouet9@aol.com
 
Yesterday, June 1st, 1999, me and my family, my uncle's family and a friend  
of mine, were spending Memorial Day at my Uncle's place in Vermont. He has a  
cottage on Lake Champlain. It's located on the north shore of Isle la Motte.  
It was about noon, and I was looking through the window of the dining room  
staring at the lake. We were packing to leave, and my friend, brothers, and  
my cousins were outside playing some ball game called SPUD. Well, I saw a  
series of humps rise out of the water, so I ran outside and called all of the  
kids over to the water, we all watched it. This series of humps (about five  
of them, were about 10 inches out of the water, the ones at the ends were  
smaller (about 7 inches), it was about 300 feet off of the shore, it headed  
south for about 50 feet, and was moving about 15 miles an hour. Now, this was  
no log, it was moving fast, and against the wind. It wasn't a school of fish  
either, because the humps stayed in perfect unison (confirming that it was  
one creature) and after about 50 feet it sank back into the water. We watched  
for almost 45 minutes to see if it reappeared but it didn't. Somebody else  
must have seen this also. I am told this was the notorious Champ monster of  
Lake Champlain. - Zack8078@aol.com
 
I saw a "lake monster" in the Big Rideau Lake, Ontario, Canada, about 43 
years ago. It suddenly appeared infront of us as we were going to our 
island. I had to do a U turn so as not to run into it. It was about 20 feet 
out of the water. It seemed to have a serpent like body, but it's head and 
jaw were in at an angle to the neck like a mammal. We were 3 in the boat and 
we all saw it very clearly but we didn't speak about it together or mention 
it to anyone else at the time. I didn't think anyone would believe us and 
was afraid of ridicule. - southam@email.msn.com
 
This is a true story i swear......last summer i went to visit my brother at collage and we went fishing at lake michigan ,my friend went with me well we were there mabey 2 and a half hours and hadent evernt felt a nibble the whole time my brother was talking about tipping the boat over knowing i cant swim and didnt have sence enough to bring a life jacket  then we felt the boat move and i told my brother to quit playing around and he said it wasnt him so i looked over the side of the boat and saw a big fat black thing swimm fast out from under the boat i screamed and scooted to the middle of the boat my brother said it was probly just a fish i said it was just to dang big to be a fish but never the less my brotherwas detemend to catch at least one fish then about 20 ft away from us i saw a giant head come out of the water well obviously everyone else saw it to it looked around and went back under water so then my brother thought it would be a good idea to leave and he said "screw the dang fish that hting probly ate them all' started up the moter and we left.  From: Romelia Valverde [mailto:valverde@mesh.net]
 
Hi,  My name is John Shaw ( 18 ) 
About a month ago myself and my family went up to scotland. 
We had a smashing time, and we stayed with my cousins in Edinburugh. 
On the third day we went on a 3 hour road trip to a bay where we ate and then  
stayed in a bed and breakfast hotel,that night me and uncle dan went down to  
the harbour.  In the distance i could see a sort of black, big snake, with a flat tail. 
it looked like it had 2 flipperes at the side of its body, 
i was aboustly terrified and ran to dan. 
he just said it was my imagianation and that i was imagining it,  
i know what i saw  From: Johnyshaw@aol.com
 
i was in Majorca on holiday in August with my family.  it was the day before 
we were supposed to leave for the uk. me and my brother decided to go to the 
beach that evening. it had a lovely atmosphere. at about eight thirty it had 
gotten slightly dark.  as i looked out at the sea i saw a huge serpent like 
creature in the water. it had dark skin and it made a horrible howling 
noise. as i looked closer i could see something in its mouth, moving. i was 
so afraid. it also had a fin like thing on its back.  as it swam away i 
looked at my brother, he had seen it too. as we looked around at the 
deserted beach it seemed we were the only two that had. to this day i still 
don't know what we saw out there but i have been more interested in sea 
creatures which is how i found your sight.  
From: Helen Mcdonald  info@jumpdesign.co.uk
 
I lived in a little town called SealBeach and there is a marsh there and once  
I was driving in the car with my friend my dad and my brother and we saw a  
shark like thing come out of the water. The weird thing is is that it was a  
freshwater marsh near a beach.  I don't know what it was.  Maybe just a fresh  
water shark I and the people in the car with me still don't know.  
from: MadTrekkie@aol.com
 
Hello! 
My name is Benn, I am 25 and live in Jakarta, Indones. 
I remember once in 1985 I went snorkeling in Java Sea, 
in the thousands island north of Jakarta (around Pulau 
Bidadari and Pulau Petondan), I encounter a large 
marine reptile form. It looked very much like a phyton 
reticulatus, maybe about 10 metres in length. It swam 
in the surface and ignored me. It was very fast. 
Phyton reticulatus is very common around the area and 
mature sizes of 7-12 metres is known about. What I am 
amazed about is the ability of these Boidae snakes to 
perform inter-island swimming. I didn't know that 
snakes could swim that far. I think that's all, and 
thank you for making a nice website for all of us sea 
serpent enthusiasts. 
From: Benn [tukangbanting@yahoo.com]
 
This happened a few years ago. My family and I were in Canada 4 vacation and  
we were touring on a boat. I was on da edge of da boat and was looking at da  
water. Suddenly, I saw a big grayish kinda fish floating on da surface; it  
was dead and it had bites on it from wat i remember. I was kinda freaked out  
bcuz dat fish was pretty big ; it was about da size of a cat, and something  
just killed it like it was nothing! N e way, I was lookin at da water again  
and i saw a huge fish-like creature swim next 2 da boat! It was at least 4  
feet to 5 feet long! Ok, Ur probably thinking, It's probably just a fish!  
But wat astonished me was dat it was a bright orange color! It sorta  
resembled a coelacanth or a giant goldfish and it had a big head. I was  
really freaked out and I was yelling at my parents 2 look,  but they dawt dat  
i was just seeing things bcuz they came over 2 me and didn't see anything,  
but i know wat I saw! I was lookin at dat thing for over 3 minutes, so I know  
dat i wasn't just seeing things!  
From: Musashi717@aol.com
 
I would like to tell you about what my colleague and I saw today. While sitting in our vehicle on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Pacific Ocean near Victoria B.C., we saw a large head come to the surface then several feet behind more of the body came to the surface in a hump and several feet behind that yet more of the body. A head and 2 humps. A total of approximately 30 feet in length from head to the second hump. The body was black, slender and smooth. It travelled quite fast and dived under the water so that the sighting took approximately 3 - 4 seconds. The creature was approximately 20 feet from the shore and travelled quickly. My colleague and I then drove approximately 1 kilometre west along the shore to another open area with a good view. Several minutes after the first sighting we saw it again this time only the head and one hump. Thats about it. I would like to know if ther have been any other sightings in the Vancouver Island area. My colleague tells me that there have been sightings in the area going back several decades and that somewhere there is a picture of a dead baby cryptosaur taken a long time ago in the Victoria area. Maybe in the local newspaper...I am not sure. Well, thanks for listening to my short story.       p.s. I told a couple of people at work and now they think I'm cracking up!!! 

From: rcawley@uniserve.com

 
me and my dad were out fishing then suddenly out of the depths. It was about 200ft long and 10ft in diameter.  It had a strange oval shaped body with a massive fish tale,and insteard of fins it had long tenticals with suckers on them. It came up to the boat and i saw these massive eyes the size of a football. It came beside the boat and swam along side for a moment but the ripples from it'smovement sent us skimming across the sea.it was doing about 30knots then it jumped up and vanishedin to the sea sending us and the spay nflying.  

From: Jeffrey Coy [Coys@btinternet.com]

 
Hi me and My friend Were aboard the Odessy2 boat on lake michigan, we were up  
top talking about video games when we noticed a weird animal swim by the side  
of the ship, we could not make out what the thing was, all we saw was a long  
body like a snake thats all we saw. 
From: TBONEJAR86@aol.com
 
I am 14 nearly 15, I also live in KY near the Miss. and Ohio River. July 28, 1999, a little while after I turned 14, I was scuba diving with my sisters old College Prof., in Green River. For those of you dont know about "the River", its a span off of the Miss. Now I was very scared of Marine Biology and Im one of those to conquer their fears so I decided to do it. Anyways I was crawling on the bottom, him being about 10 ft to my left (where gonna be closer but I kind of wandered off). Well I felt something slimy and was black, so I crawled on thin thing on the bottom (wasnt flat, but since it was at the bottom, it was like an arch from side to side, side to side at the max from what I saw was about 5ft?). I crawled on it for about 30 feet, then I saw almost a mouth with small whiskers, and perhabs a nose. I still at this point thought it was a log, but that was about to change. While I was feeling around it I touched a "whisker" (I thought was a branch), then in a moment I will NEVER forget I saw its eye suddenly open. I layed there in absolute terror which seemed like 20 mins which probably was only two, but they were the worst moments in my life. I was in shock and then decided that it wasnt going to eat me so I swam up as fast as I can. I was thinking that at any moment I was going to be swallowed, but I made it to shore. I lay there in shock and nearly crying when the Prof. came up and I told him the story. He decided it was a 30 ft Catfish perhabs a mutant or just unknown species. I wondered why it wouldnt notice me till I touched its "whisker", but I guessed it had parasites larger than me. I never had trouble telling this story, but then again alot of people dont believe me since Im 14. I do have very bad dreams about it, and seeing it has made me reasearch sea monsters. This story isnt solved and I hope someone can one day, even if its me.  - MRASS316@prodigy.net
 
my name is danny and one day, at paint river, me and my friend were swimming in the river when i felt something brush up against my foot, then the creature caught one of my legs and wrapped around it!  i was so scared that i screamed at the top of my lungs!!!!!!!!  i screamed and paniced until the creature let go.  i swam ashore and i saw a creature swim away.....  it was about 50 feet long and had and 6 to 7 humps.  i saw it for a bout 20 seconds until it swam underwater - kiexpress@netzero.net
 
My name is Roger Bance, Im 18 and come from England. 

7 weeks ago me and my friend and his family went to spain. 
My friend dad is more then less rich and hired a big, and I mean big boat out for us, the plan was to go out and spend two nights off the coast, half way through the first day we did or tryed to do a bit of fishing but had no luck. I looked out to sea and thought of all the dangerous animals out there and thought of what it would be like to fall in and have a shark take your leg off. Thats just me and my sick thoughts. 
When It got to about 3, O, clock I was starting to get board so I went down below and watch a bit of tele, This boat had it all, t,v, 3 bed rooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and lounge. 
So I sat down and watch tele for 15 minites. Then my mate came down and said, "you know you like sharks, well my dad thinks he saw one".So I've gone up on deak and his dad pointed it out, I could see it, but It seemed miles away.So we wait for it to come closer and when it did we paniced because it was huge, and I mean not like your great whites but twice the sizes of it. It must have been 50 foot long. We keept away from the side of the boat and waited for it to go away because my mates dad did'nt want to start the boat incase he drew its attention.It did swim of in about 6 minites then we went back to shaw and reported it. Im not suprised that we saw it, there have been many sigtings of these sharks and I belive that its name is Megalodon which lived in the jurassic time or what ever. But I am suprised that we saw it of the coast of spain and so close to shaw. I think there were more sigting of the shark but I don't know how many, but thats the last time I go swimming in the sea again.  From: roger bance [roger@bancer.freeserve.co.uk]


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