Pitt
Lake Creatures
Pitt Lake is lake in British Columbia. It is approximately 25 km
(16 miles) long and about 4.5 km (2.8 miles .) wide. It is one of the world's tidal lakes, The lake has a
reported maximum depth of 468 feet.
There are many
strange things about the lake including the report of the so called Pitt Lake Giant.
Described as 10 -15 feet tall ( 3-5 metres) ,covered in hair with long arms . Prints
show 4 toes and are 2 feet long( .66 metre).
On June 28th, 1965, two prospectors Ron and Loren Welch, followed
a track of large footprints to a smaller
ice bound lake.where they encountered a large bigfoot like animal estimated to
be 10-15 feet tall (3-5metres). They returned later but it had gone.
In late 1975 a man deer hunting saw what looked like
a bear walking on its hind legs
In 1995, there was a report from the owner of the Pitt River
Lodge who spotted a set of large tracks alongside a creek whilst hiking in a
remote area.
The strangeness doesn’t end there the lake also has
a monster, the Pitt Lake Lizard, a.k.a. Canadian Alligator .It is reported to
be between 5 and 10ft long (1.6 and over 3 metres),with a dark skin,a long
snout and four legs with webbed feet.
In June 1973 couple Warren and Sharon Scott watched as
a large number of creatures that resembled huge reptiles swam slowly through
the water looking like a family group.. While the couple watched from shore,
Warren reportedly captured a baby one and sent one it to the Simon Fraser
University biology department for study. Records of what became of this
collected specimen have not been found.
In 2002 the Pitt River Lodge owner, Dan Gerak
claimed to have seen a creature that was over 5ft (1.6 metres) long and
possessed dark black skin . He described the creature as resembling that of an
oversized salamander.
There have been stories of giant salamanders in the USA
but no proof was found.
See: https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/07/does-new-discovery-give-hope-to.html
Then there is the legend of the lost gold mine.
Local newspapers claimed that since 1900 some two
dozen prospectors and treasure hunters looking for Pitt Lake’s gold mine died.
It was said to be Slumach’s curse. An old man who put
a curse on the mine in the Chinook language
“Nika memloose, mine memloose”. Loosely translated it reads “No man who finds the gold
will live long enough to bring it out.”
I have often said some areas seem to attract
strangeness and more than one phenomenon is found there…..Pitt Lake appears to
be one of those areas.
