Scary Scary Lake

            So I just learned about another lake monster the other day.  This one is very different from other lake monsters that I have written about.  This one is much more sinister, and, believe it or not, much more mysterious than any other lake monster that I’ve heard about.  The lake in question is called Elizabeth Lake.  This lake is located near Palmdale in LA County.  Some say that this is the oldest lake in the state.  I’m not really a person who studies lake history, so I couldn’t tell you for sure.  This lake has been nicknamed Laguna Del Diablo; and if you look at the history of this lake, it’s easy to see why.

            Elizabeth Lake lies on the San Andreas fault line.  From what I’ve heard, fault lines are scary and interesting places.  There’s an unpredictable nature to them, and they can produce all kinds of odd phenomena.  Could this be the reason that something strange is attributed to the lake?  Perhaps.  Read on and maybe we can figure something out.

            This area, in the 1800s, was inhabited by Spanish settlers.  However, weird things happened in the lake way before the Spanish got there.  Native American legends suggest that a dark force created the lake.  To the Spanish, this dark force translated into the Devil.  A few sightings and the influence from Native American stories became the legend; the monster of Elizabeth Lake.  Tradition states that Satan is indeed the one who created this lake to house one of his favorite pets.  It is also said that the bottom of this lake contains a passage to Hell.  So I suppose the lake serves as some sort of backyard, where the Devil’s pet can get out, get some exercise, and wreak some havoc.

            The monster itself sounds absolutely appalling.  It has bat wings, a giraffe neck, a bulldog face, six legs, it’s about fifty feet long, and of course, it stinks to high heaven.  Apparently, this beast was so fowl and its presence was so greatly felt, that ranchers thought they needed to abandon their land just to escape the monster’s clutches.             

            This horrible creature first really made itself known in the 1830s, and tortured a man named Don Pedro Carillo.  This guy had a ranch built very close to the lake.  One night, not one, not two, but all of his ranch building burned down.  Carillo soon left the place, claiming the disaster was the work of the devil.  Was it really the monster that caused this?  No one saw it actually starting the fire that night; however, the lake was starting to get a pretty bad reputation.

            Later on, in the 1850s, some American settlers who moved in near the lake were terrorized by late night visions, disturbing screams, and other unnatural phenomena.  They too fled from the lake.  It seemed, at this point, that the area was uninhabitable. 

            Another brave soul tried to make the land his home, Don Chico Lopez.  He was lured into a sense of security, as nothing at all happened the first few months after moving in.  Eventually, animals started to go missing.  We’re not talking about an occasional dog running off, we’re talking about giant cows just vanishing.  To make things worse, a giant shadow of a winged entity would cast itself over the house each and every night.  This is when the actual sightings began.  Workers were actually seeing this abomination!  A few of the hands actually took a shot at this thing, and the bullets reportedly bounced right off its hide.  If I were there, I’d definitely quit; apparently, many of the ranch hands felt the same way.  Those animals kept disappearing, the terror was evidently mounting, so Lopez had to give up and sell his property.  Again, the land around the lake was abandoned.

            As if everything wasn’t weird enough, things were about to get decidedly stranger when Miguel Leonis stepped up and purchased the land.  This guy was very tough, so when the monster started picking off his animals, Leonis was certainly not going to turn his tail and run.  Instead, one night he hid and waited for the creature to rear its ugly head.  Of course Leonis shot at it, but when he discovered that this had no effect, he did one of the craziest things I can imagine; he ran right up to it and attacked it with the butt of his gun.  He ended up punching it in the eye; quite an amazing maneuver if this thing was really fifty feet across.  This must have really startled the Elizabeth Lake monster, because after that, it retreated back into the lake.  It turns out that the beast had a much more vicious bark than bite, because the next thing everybody knew, the monster took off, toward Arizona.

            It is here where the Elizabeth Lake monster meets up with another western legend to form one very tall and beastly tale.  It looked like the monster actually made it to Arizona, close to Tombstone to be exact.  In 1890, a large, winged creature appeared in the area.  Some cowboys lured it down and somehow killed it.  There even seemed to be a picture to accompany this wild claim.  A picture allegedly appeared in the Tombstone Epitaph in which a bunch of cowboys are posed with what seems to be a dead pterodactyl.  Some have suggested that the Tombstone pterodactyl and the Elizabeth Lake monster are the same thing.  This could be verified, had not the picture and apparently all copies of the newspaper gone missing; leaving nothing but a couple of crazy Wild West legends.

            So now that you know the history of the Elizabeth Lake monster, let’s try to put some pieces together, shall we?

            As with many lake monsters, this one is very old; Native American legend says so.  Something odd has haunted that lake for a long time.  Could it be the work of the fault line?  I’m sure its presence definitely has something to do with it.  Strange lights, feelings and noises could be associated with the lake for as long as anyone can remember, because of that darned fault line.  Skeptics will probably place all the blame on that lake’s location.  But what of the description of the beast?  It is no simple description; it’s immensely complicated.  With other lake monsters, the animal seems to differ from one sighting to the next.  And, perhaps that’s what happened with the Elizabeth Lake monster; maybe each individual sighting added up to make a very jumbled and disturbing creature.  If we do take it to heart that the chimeric appearance of the beast was actually a true description; what could it possibly be?  In a way, it sounds like some kind of saurpod, with the long neck and such.  But saurpods don’t have six legs, from everything that I know.  Could be an evolutionary deal, but I doubt it.  Perhaps the number of legs is the first of many exaggerations and misidentifications.  Something that fits that monster’s description has to be an exaggeration, right?  There is no way this thing could conceivably be real.  Unless it was, in fact, a true demon.  Really?  I’ve heard of demonic possessions and the occasional sighting of a little demon hiding in someone’s room.  I’ve heard of people being terrorized by demons, plagued by demons, and seduced by demons.  I have absolutely never heard of the Devil swinging by and dropping off a horrible demon off in a lake.  I suppose it could be possible.  The sightings stopped in the 1880s, maybe the Devil was bolder and more invested in terrorizing living people than he is now.  I don’t really know.

            Another theory, and I promise I didn’t make this one up, is that the Elizabeth Lake monster was no kind of living being.  Some say it was an alien spaceship.  No one knew what a spaceship was back then, so it might have been given the characteristics of some kind of living organism.  Underwater UFOs, or USOs, as they are now called, are a pretty common phenomenon these days.  There is all sorts of speculation whirling about that aliens, or whatever inhabits these craft, have set up underwater stations, out of reach of the human eye.  We haven’t been down to the deepest depth of the deepest ocean, so it could be possible.  Was Elizabeth Lake a sort of sea port for flying vessels in the Wild West era?  Some characteristics of this so called monster certainly don’t seem organic; such as the ability to thwart bullets.  Maybe it could be some sort of ship.  Yet I still can’t get over how organic this thing seems.  I imagine a horrible face and head sitting atop a slithering, prowling creature; its muscles undulating beneath its leathery skin.

            The most intriguing part of this story, to me, is the fact that the sighting suddenly stopped.  This creature had seemingly been around for hundreds of years, first making its appearance known through native legends.  It faces one attack, and, at least in California, that’s the last anyone sees or hears of it.  Did Miguel Leonis really fight off a beast from hell?  I’m pretty sure there have been no modern sightings; nothing, not even from a lunatic trying to hold on to some bygone legend.  To me it seems that this was a Wild West legend that died when the west got significantly less wild. 

            And what of the Tombstone event?  Was this really the same horrible creature from the lake?  The real question is what happened to that infamous photograph of the downed monster?  Volumes have been written trying to make sense of this, and I just won’t get into that now.

            What a lot of rambling just to tell you about a simple monster.  It’s a really interesting story, with very strange aspects to it.  Whatever it was, I’m pretty sure it’s gone now.  Maybe it died, maybe it went back to the underworld, and maybe, just maybe, it didn’t exist at all.

Beyond the Curtain

            They say that monsters don’t really come from our earth.  They say that some monsters and ghosts come from other dimensions.  They say that even some UFOs are not from outer space at all, but simply from another dimension.  Who are they?  A select few monster, ghost, and UFO hunters and theorists.  It is a theory that seems to tie things up quite tidily.  It makes a good explanation as to why no one can get any concrete evidence; the strange being or whatever simply slipped back into their dimension.  I can certainly see the possibility of parallel realities.  I bet these alternate existences can account for a lot of crazy things that happen out there.  So let’s go over the whys and why nots regarding the possibility of parallel universes and the phenomena connected to them.

            I’m going to start out with regular people.  I understand that people have been proven to exist and there is evidence of said existence everywhere.  So I guess you can’t really call people paranormal phenomena.  However, stuff that happens to people can get kind of weird.  Have you ever had a day where everything seems slightly off to you?  It could be a personal problem, I mean, we aren’t always at the top of our game.  But sometimes, maybe it isn’t us.  Maybe something weird is really going on.  We very well could have slipped into a parallel, albeit similar, universe.  This is highly unlikely, since the illogical implications of this would be astoundingly numerous.  For instance, how do we move from one universe to another?  Does it happen while we are asleep?  How do we get back to our own universe after slipping into another?  Are parallel universes really that similar that we can hardly tell the difference?  Though it is very unlikely that we jump around from universe to universe on a regular basis; perhaps the theory of being sucked into a parallel dimension isn’t that far out.  People disappear sometimes.  I’m not talking about those cases where there is a tiny bit of evidence that suggests that the person was killed, kidnapped, or vanished on their own accord; I’m talking about a person that straight up vanishes.  They have perfectly normal lives, no true enemies, and close bonds to other people.  Then one day, they are gone.  I’m not making this up.  I watch a lot of true mystery shows and I read about this stuff as well.  There have been people who have to reason to run away, but they vanish, with no clues as to their whereabouts.  Could it be that these people have disappeared into another dimension?  Where else could they have gone?  Of course, there are many logical explanations; but maybe, just maybe, this is the solution to some of those missing person cases.  The police can’t put “skipped dimensions” on a report, though I’m sure that some of them want to.  My question is do any of these people ever come back?  The answer looks grim.  Unless they somehow manage to come back to their correct universe hundreds of years from where they initially left.  If that were the case, wouldn’t we be finding missing people from bygone eras?  I haven’t heard of a medieval knight showing up in the modern streets of London.  If a person popped up that was obviously from the past, I think we would have heard about it.  Maybe these missing people from our time and from older times will never come back; or they just haven’t come back yet.

            Then there is the missing time phenomenon.  People sometimes discover that they have missed a few hours, such as a road trip taking a much shorter time than expected; or the very opposite, a road trip taking much longer than expected.  Missing time is usually attributed to aliens.  Could it also be a journey through a parallel dimension?  They could have passed through some sort of wormhole that stretches or shrinks time.  Maybe it’s some weird space physics thing that I don’t understand and really shouldn’t be talking about. 

            I think that some people, while not actually stepping into one, have glimpsed parallel universes.  Yes, people have wandered into scenes from the past; there are famous accounts of such incidences.  However, there are stories of people seeing houses that tend to disappear.  There are also stories of entire towns showing up that shouldn’t be there, and vanishing just as quickly.  Are all of these instances shadows from the past?  Why couldn’t they be inter-dimensional houses and towns?  Maybe some houses in a parallel universe are built on some sort of dimensional rift.  The same thing could happen in our universe, but have you ever heard of a person going home and their house just wasn’t there?  There seems to be a lot of evidence that allows for other realities to seep into our own, but very few occasions in which our universe releases anything that belongs to it into other dimensions.  Perhaps we are the less evolved reality, we have yet to discover how to enter a parallel universe.  That’s why they are always coming to us. 

            Then are monsters multidimensional beings?  Are they the ones who possess the power to enter into our reality?  I’ve heard the theory many times, that monsters are not really of this plane of existence.  If that’s the case, the veils between realities are oddly specific.  If Bigfoot is from a parallel universe, why then is he only seen in the woods and other hard to reach places?  Why is the Loch Ness Monster only seen in that lake?  Could it be that Bigfoot prefers our forests to the ones in his dimension?  Maybe our wilderness is a vacation destination for an entire population of alternate reality Bigfoots.  Does Bigfoot—who by all accounts seems to be smarter than an ape, but not quite as smart as a human—possess the ability to travel to different universes?  If it is an accidental shift, why doesn’t Bigfoot show up on the streets of a busy city?  Would these inter-dimensional portals really be that specific to the creatures that pass through it?  I think our world is mysterious enough, I think our monsters are from Earth.  Tears in our reality just don’t fit the monster agenda.  It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

            You could say that ghosts are the best example of travelling between alternate realities.  Brief flashes of out of place people certainly seems to be evidence of universe overlap.  I understand that certain locations may contain a vortex, or doorway to another world.  If you have a vortex in your house, weird things are bound to happen.  But if you have one side of a vortex on your end, where is the other end?  Some vortices lead to the other side, and by other side, I mean afterlife; you know, where dead people hang out.  Now this particular other side could also be categorized as some sort of parallel universe; it’s where people travel to when they pass on.  I don’t really want to go into that, so I won’t.  I want to talk about alternate realities that contain living beings.  So yes, it’s pretty obvious that some ghosts are spirits of the dead; since these particular ghosts can be recognized and historically backed up.  What about one time ghost sightings?  Or sightings of a ghost that really has no business being in that location?  People sometimes get a glimpse of a person that seems to be out of place and these people tend to disappear with no logical explanation.  Are these the sightings of actual ghosts?  Or, maybe these are sightings of a person who slipped into our dimension.  Maybe the people who come from other realities don’t necessarily realize what has happened to them.  Perhaps people from our universe slip into others as well.  If a certain location contains the right kind of vortex, people could be popping in and out of realities and hardly realize it.  The journey may last a split second.  In essence, we could be each other’s ghosts.  This may be a good explanation for a one-time ghost sighting.  If you catch a glimpse of some strange man in your hallway, but you only see him once, does that mean you have a certified haunted house?   Probably not.  It could be a spirit passing through; but it also could be a little slip up in the order of the universe.  People in this world have claimed to see visions of scenes that should not be there; a look into the past, or what seems to be the future.  Could this be evidence that people from our time and place can slip through a rip in reality and see a different world?  Inter-dimensional traveling may account for at least a few ghost sightings.  And I’m only talking about the really weird ones, the ones that don’t make historical or familiar sense.  It could just be an overlay of a different dimension.

            If you’re going to try and travel through parallel universes at will, you probably need some kind of technology to do it.  Perhaps some sort of advanced flying machine?  Are UFOs multidimensional travelers?  Do they come from another universe and not from outer space?  You’d think that a trip into another dimension could be accomplished on the ground, but maybe not.  Perhaps the upper atmosphere is the optimal place to try and cross into another reality.  Yes, aliens could be alternate earthlings.  Not all of them, mind you; the ones that take soil samples and mutilate cattle probably aren’t from a neighboring universe.  Those ones probably come from the far reaches of the galaxy.  As far as abductions go, parallel universe travelers could still want to do tests on us.  Maybe they are looking for something, something that would help their dimension prosper.  Maybe a cure for a disease?  A way to repopulate a dying planet?  I apologize for being too speculative, but you kind of have to in my field.

            So do I think parallel universes exist?  I’m on the fence about that.  Mainly because the mathematics and physics of the concept would blow up my brain if anyone tried to explain it to me.  From a strictly paranormal point of view, it’s all possible.  If I have an open mind about one thing, I should open my mind up to everything.  Just tell me next time you pop into another dimension, tell me what it’s like.

There's Something in the Water...ALL the Water

Are you afraid of water?  I’m not really, I can swim and all that fun stuff.  However, there is something strange going on in our lakes and rivers and I think it’s enough to make anyone scared of the water.  Sea farers have reported strange goings on in the oceans since man built his first boat.  It seems like there have always been sightings and tales of sea serpents and other underwater behemoths like the kraken.  Are these really just legends?  If that’s the case, then are all lake and river monsters legends as well?  I’ve always found underwater life to be very interesting and mysterious.  In the ocean, especially; no one really knows what’s going on down there.  We finally know that a rare giant squid lurks in the depths.  They don’t exactly wrap their tentacles around boats and drag them underwater, but they’re still pretty big.  The ocean is too much of an enigma for me to try and conquer today, so I will just stick with lakes and rivers. 

            It is astounding how many lakes and rivers contain their own monster.  I mean, a few strange sightings in one or two lakes is definitely something, but there are tons of these things everywhere!  How can there really be that many monsters hanging out in Earth’s smaller bodies of water?  Is it just a strange optical illusion?  Do lakes and rivers go through some kind of phenomena that makes people think, nay, believe, beyond a reasonable doubt that they’ve seen something strange?  The lakes and rivers where these creatures appear are hardly identical in their conditions.  They are different sizes, temperatures, elevations, and any other differences you can think of that exist among bodies of water.  From a strictly scientific standpoint, it would be hard to deny that people are getting startled, disturbed, and scared in these aquatic environments.  It doesn’t necessarily have to be a living, breathing, undiscovered species of animal.  Maybe, sticks, logs, fish, or birds doing strange things are the definite answer.  Maybe it’s underwater geysers.  I know nothing about geysers, especially underwater ones, but I can certainly still have a guess.  Maybe there are underwater geysers springing up everywhere, pushing hot water to the surface of lakes and it all somehow looks like a breaching serpent’s humps, or perhaps a plesiosaurs’ head and neck.  A real scientist or anyone else with any brains is probably going to tell me that my ramblings are complete nonsense and an appearance of that many geysers would probably signify the end of the world, because eventually, the geysers will spew lava and cover the earth with hot, molten rock and kill us all.  Wait a minute, I don’t think a scientist would say that either.  What was I talking about?  Right, lake and river monsters.

            Could it really be true that we lack the capability to explore the depths of a mere lake?  I think we can do it, but a boat, or even a small fleet of boats can’t cover an entire lake at the same time.  It’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time.  Look at the Loch Ness, for example.  I know that poor Nessie has been debunked so many times that he himself doubts his existence; but get this, for every picture proven fake or explainable, a new piece of unexplainable evidence floats in.  Recent expeditions have indicated that there are large entities under the water that can’t be positively identified.  I’m talking really recent expeditions, like in the last year or two.  Some people have received sonar hits that even a trained marine or whatever can’t officially claim to be a stick.  The Loch Ness buzzwords these days are non-submarine vehicles.  Meaning that whatever is being caught out there, seems to be alive.  From seeing Nessie as a tourist on the shore, or as a legitimate scientist with the latest technology, something is being sighted again and again.  Are we all suffering from mass hysteria?  Mass hysteria is a very real thing, but could it last for hundreds of years?  Is the human mind that fragile?

            You’re probably totally sick of hearing about that jerk Nessie.  What makes him so great?  Well, I think you’re right, let’s turn our attention from that spotlight hog Nessie and take a world tour of various bodies of water and we can learn about what people are seeing in less flashy locations.

            The Okanagan Lake is the home to Ogopogo.  This lake is located in British Columbia, Canada.  He’s your basic sea serpent, about 40-50 feet long with many sightings that date back to the 1800s.  It apparently ate some horses in 1860, but the first documented sighting didn’t occur until 1872.  The mass sighting, which seems to be a requirement of many lake monsters, occurred in 1926.  This mass sighting included 30 cars full of people whose reports all described the same thing.  It, of course, has been filmed and photographed, but not very clearly.  Apart from the mundane explanations, cryptozoologists have categorized Ogopogo as a primitive whale called basilosaurus.  Canadians must like pogo as a surname for their monsters because some of their other lake creatures are Manipogo, from Lake Manitoba, Winnipogo, from Lake Winnipegosis, also in Manitoba, and Igopogo in Lake Simcoe in Ontario.  Manipogo has been seen since 1908 and has a very serpent-y look to it.  It also has been theorized to be a primitive whale called the zeuglodon.  Though Manipogo can hardly be set apart from other lake monsters; one thing that makes it interesting is that in 1948, it came out of the water and made a sound that was deemed “dinosaur-like”.  Now, how people know what aquatic dinosaurs sound like is a mystery to me, but, there you go.  Winnipogo is pretty much the same as Manipogo, so I won’t go into detail here.  Igopogo has a dog head, so it really isn’t your regular dinosaur lake monster.  It apparently likes to sun bathe, indicating that it breathes air.  So if you’re in Canada and you want to see a monster, it’s best to do what the Canadians do and go pogo.  We aren’t finished with Canada yet, because some other monsters modeled their name after Nessie, like Cressie and Mussie.  Cressie comes from Crescent Lake and once had a much cooler name, Woodum Haoot, which means pond devil.  It looks like Cressie is a very big eel, it’s gone after some scuba divers and it happily swims around the lake.  Mussie lives in Muskrat Lake, near Ottawa, Canada.  He is thought to be a weird seal or walrus-like creature.  He’s been captured by sonar and all that great stuff, but Lake Muskrat apparently has hallucinogenic qualities.  I don’t know about that, unless a whole lot of seaweed makes people hallucinate, but I guess that’s a discussion for another time.

            Making our way south, we simply must stop at Lake Champlain, a lake nestled between the U.S. and Canada.  I’ve mentioned Champ before, so there’s no need to go into detail about him again.  He just needs to be mentioned for the sake of this article.  Besides Champ, most U.S. lake and river monsters are pretty boring and rarely seen.  Bessie, of Lake Erie, is snake-like and gray.  There’s a $100,000 reward on its head, so that’s pretty neat.  Tahoe Tessie, of, you guessed it, Lake Tahoe is pretty entertaining.  The size range of this thing is 10 feet to 80 feet.  Its coloration is anywhere from jet black to turquoise.  Tessie has been the star of Native tales since the mid 19^th century.  It lives in an underwater tunnel beneath Cave Rock.  There have been sightings by cops, pictures taken, the usual stuff.  There’s really nothing unique about Tessie.  In the U.S. there are reports of giant turtles and salamanders, but nothing terribly exciting.

            In Africa, that’s where the fun starts, because that’s where the dinosaurs live.  Though the names are often hard for us westerners to pronounce, we can all agree that Africa, especially the Congo, is the most likely place for a hiding dinosaur to reside.  Most of these things aren’t exactly lake or river monsters because they are known to tread upon the land.  They are included in this writing, however, because they hang out mostly in the water.  Like the Emela-ntouka, Mokele mbembe, and the Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu.  These are all described as saurpods who swim in the swamps and have an affinity for killing elephants and rhinoceros.  That Congo is a tough and unexplored place, who knows what could be out there.  In the Zambezi River located in Zimbabwe lives the river god Nyaminyami.  It’s dragon-like and snake-like, but this guy is revered as a god!  People have claimed to see it, but there are no official records of the creature.  Its presence can be felt and the BaTonga people of that region know for a fact that it’s there.  Nyaminyami made himself known when in the 1950s, outsiders tried to dam up the river.  The people knew their river god would protect them, he would show the foreigners not to mess with his river.  His vengeance occurred in 1957, the Zambezi River flooded like mad and the dam was destroyed, along with many of the outside workers.  In fact, some of the white worker’s bodies went missing.  The BaTonga elders told the white man that a sacrifice must be made to Nyaminyami in order for the carnage to stop.  A white calf was sacrificed and they floated it down the river.  The next day, the calf was gone, and in its place were the bodies of the missing workers.  The flooding was predicted to never come again for the next 1000 years, but, to everyone’s surprise except the BaTongas, the flooding came again the next year.  Those pesky outsiders finally harnessed the power of the river in 1960.  The BaTonga still wait for Nyaminyami to return and once again be the dominant power of the Zambezi River.

            Although Nessie gets top billing in Scotland, there are a few more monsters lurking in other lakes, that, or Nessie gets around.  In Lake Morar, Morag makes his home.  He’s serpent-like and 20-30 feet long, brown, with a head that’s a foot wide.  Its humps and head have been photographed, but nothing conclusive has ever been found.  A fun one lives in Iceland, the Lagarflóóts Worm located in Lagarflóót Lake is supposed to be 300 feet long.  It’s seen on dry land and in the water.  It should be noted that this particular lake has gas, so, that may be an explanation.  The Swedish Lake Storsjön is the home to Storsjöodjuret, a very old monster, first reported in 1635.  The lake is located near the city Östersund and in 1986 the city created a law that protected Storsjöodjuret and any offspring it may have produced.  The law was revoked in 2005, which leaves us to wonder, what did the monster do to get off the protected list?

            Russia, as cold as it is, still contains a few lake and river monsters.  The Brosno Dragon has been around since the 13^th century in Lake Brosno.  This thing could be anything, from a giant, mutated beaver to a living dinosaur.  This thing has the power to scare armies by eating its soldiers and horses.  In World War II it apparently swallowed an entire German airplane.  Whatever it is, it has a giant mouth.  The Lake Van monster in Lake Van of Turkey didn’t appear on the scene until 1995; but since then there have been over 1000 sightings of a fifteen meter beast with spikes on its back.  Seems pretty intense, but since this monster is so new, it’s very likely a hoax to generate tourist revenue.  There might be as many as 20 monsters dwelling in Heaven Lake in China.  In 1903, 3 people were attacked by an aquatic creature that looked like a buffalo.  This creature was shot, but retreated to the water.  In 1962, two monsters were seen chasing each other in the water.  That sounds pretty cute, actually.  Recently, the monster being spotted has a human-like head, a long neck, and smooth, gray skin, that sounds a lot less cute.  Reporters have seen as many as six Nessie-like monsters swimming around in that lake.

            Finally, in Argentina lives Nahuelito, the monster of Nahuel Huapi Lake.  It’s described as a plesiosaur with a hump and a serpentine body.  It’s been photographed and has received attention from the Buenos Aires Zoo.

            So, as you can see, the waters of Earth are brimming with strange creatures.  None of them have been proven without a doubt to be real.  What’s going on under the water?  Something weird, that’s for sure.