Wolf Pond Giant Snake?

 Wolf Pond Reptile

Wolf Pond is a  fishing lake in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.A 30 foot(10 metres) long creature is said to live there. Last reported in the 1800’s.  It's described as black with yellow bands and a green head, and measured about 6 feet ( 2 metres)  wide.One fisherman was said to have panicked on seeing it and he tried to hit it with an oar.The creature capsized his boat before disappearing back into the lake.It is mentioned in a book by  Charles Skinner “ Buried Treasure and Storied Waters” written in the 1900s.

It appeared to be a huge snake. Snakes are present in the area but none that large.Could it have been an aberration ,a one off that grew very large? No recent sightings have been recorded

Kootenay Lake Creature

 

 Kootenay Lake Monster

Kootenay Lake is  located in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kootenay River.

Its  65 miles (104kms) long and approximately 3 miles (5 kms) wide.It varies in depth from 33 feet (approx 10 metres)    to a maximum of 490 feet ( 160 metres) . Large enough to house a few monsters.

In  October 1900 a Captain WJ Kane reported seeing a lake monster in the lake. He described it as being large and bulky.  A 12 year old boy also saw something on October 10^th 1900, on the shore of Kootenay Lake, George Goudereau saw a 12ft ( 4 metres) creature that looked like an alligator  crawl  out of Crawford Bay and made its way towards a pile of rubbish on the shore. George watched  as it used its  claws and its snout to search through the pile. After a while it went back into the lake leaving a trail of tracks of  webbed feet. The creature  became known as the Canadian Alligator.

The area also has another prehistoric creature ,Big Bertha,a 10-foot Kootenay white sturgeon that weighs over 350 pounds. However sturgeon don’t normally come out of the water to forage.

If it was an alligator how did it get to Canada or survive the winter there? It could have been a pet released into the wild but again the winter weather would surely have killed it.

No recent sightings are recorded but other lakes in British Columbia have had sightings of similar creatures so the mystery remains.

Sea Monster or Baby Whale?

 

Strange creature filmed off North Carolina. Watch the film and see what you think:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11607467/Has-Loch-Ness-Monster-moved-NC-Snake-like-creature-slithering-inlet-sparks-online-debate.html

Merry Cryptid Christmas

 I wish you all a happy peaceful Christmas and all the very best for 2023. Thank you for reading and commenting on the blog. 

Its been a rough couple of years for us all I survived major surgery and sepsis ,losing  a part of  my foot in the process,and am still recovering.On top of covid,lockdown and unrest in the world we have all struggled  and its not over yet. Whoever you are,where ever in the world you are ,I wish you good things for the future.  Merry Christmas xx

Cryptids at Christmas

Christmas Monsters!

Christmas is also for Monsters!

 Not all Christmas creatures are benign like Santa Claus. Krampus looks like a demonic goat who walks on its hind legs like a human. He punishes naughty children, beating them with birch branches and carries a basket on his back so he can carry off a child to eat later.The 5th of December is Krampusnacht ,men in homemade Krampus costumes run around Alpine villages causing havoc. These 'Krampus Runs' continue today. The Karakoncolos looks like a cross between the Devil and a Sasquatch. In Turkey, the legend says he would stand at street corners on winter nights setting riddles for passers-by. If the traveller gave an answer that included the word ‘black’ they were free to go on their way. If not, he would strike them dead .Sometimes the Karakoncolos would just put them in a trance and leave them to roam free. In Serbia, the story says the Karakoncolos jumps on the victim’s back and uses them as a ride. The exhausted person was only released at dawn. Jólakötturinn is the Icelandic Yule Cat or Christmas Cat. Jólakötturinn, who first appeared in the 19th century, a huge, ferocious beast with razor-like whiskers, blazing eyes and terrible claws who consumed any child who did not receive new clothes on Christmas Day.It is tied into an Icelandic tradition in which those who finish their work on time received new clothes for Christmas, while those who were lazy did not . Jólakötturinn could tell who the lazy children were because they did not have at least one new item of clothing for Christmas and these children would be eaten by the Yule Cat. Then there is the macabre skeleton mare of Welsh tradition,Mary Lwyd, which rises from the dead and wanders the streets with her undead attendants, to remind the living of their existence. Mary Lwyd wants to to get into your house. To keep the zombie horse out, you must engage in a battle of rhymes . Usually singing the rhymes to which the zombie horse replies.On New Year’s Eve, the undead mare is represented by a puppeteer parading a horse skull on a pole draped in white cloth around the towns and villages. Next there is a creature from Scandinavian folklore who looks like a gnome and lives among the dead inside burial mounds called the Tomten.He can act as a caretaker of the household, that is if you keep on his good side. The Tomten has quite the temper and is known for biting people who upset him. The bites are poisonous and deadly. People leave a gift of food out on Christmas Eve for the Tomten. One of Iceland’s creatures associated with Christmas is Gryla a giant troll who is bad tempered with an insatiable hunger for children. Each Christmas, Gryla comes down from her mountain dwelling to hunt for naughty children. She catches them in a sack and takes them back to her cave where she boils them alive for her favourite stew.

 A Cryptozoology Christmas Carol To be sung to the tune of the 12 days of Christmas: 

 On the first day of christmas I received in the post an owlman in a large tree

 On the second day of christmas I received in the post two thunderbirds 

 On the third day of christmas I received in the post three almas

 On the fourth day of christmas I received in the post four ozark howlers

 On the fifth day of christmas I received in the post five gold ogopogos

 On the sixth day of christmas I received in the post six bunyips laying

 On the seventh day of christmas I received in the post seven Nessies swimming

 On the eigth day of christmas I received in the post eight chupacabras sucking

 On the ninth day of christmas I received in the post nine yetis dancing

 On the tenth day of christmas I received in the post ten spring heeled jacks leaping 

 On the eleventh day of christmas I received in the post eleven black dogs howling 

 On the twelfth day of christmas I received in the post twelve bigfoots drumming And an owlman in a large treeeeeee. 

(First posted 2009)

Lake Chelan Creature

 

Lake Chelan Dragon

 

Lake Chelan is in  northwestern, U.S. A. The narrow lake goes through a glacier-carved valley . It is fed by the Stehekin River.Its length is 55 miles (88 metres) and is  estimated to be 1,486 feet deep.

It is said to be home to a monster.The monster was supposedly brought there in September 1812 by a Captain Chelan’s on his ship,as an egg.The egg was came from Captain Chelan’s childhood home in Fort Augustus  Scotland.The egg was said to be offspring from the Loch Ness Monster.

The Lake Chelan monster  is believed to be a dragon that  can fly..Local indigenous people in  the area have a long history of stories of encounters with the Dragon. Accounts claim that on December 2nd 1892, three men on the shore  were attacked by a Creature from the lake. It apparently grabbed one of the men and flew off with him.

The Daily Picayune of New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 4, 1892, published this account , “An Amphibious Monster.”

A most extraordinary story comes from Boise City, Idaho, which is said to be well authenticated.It says that while three travelers were at the upper end of Lake Chelan recently one of them went into the water to bathe. He was seized by the foot by a marine [sic] monster and was being pulled into deep water, when his screams attracted the attention of his companions, who came to his rescue. They pulled him ashore, the monster hanging to his foot.It had legs and body like an alligator and the head and eyes of a serpent. Between its fore and hind legs were large ribbed wings.The men tried hard to tear the monster from the foot of their companion, and finally tried fire, which had the effect of causing the animal to rise suddenly into the air, taking its victim along, and finally landing in the lake, where both disappeared from sight.

No further information was published.

In 1945 a school bus crashed into Lake Chelan.Everyone on board was killed. Divers were sent  down to investigate and recover bodies. They said they were circled by a slithery shadow, a creature  75 feet ( 25 metres)  in length. The divers came up and refused to return under water.

So a dragon or a large aquatic creature? Sounds more like a large snake or eel. What do you think?

A Kelpie in Loch Borralan?

  

Loch Borralan Water Kelpie

Loch Borralan is a freshwater loch in the Assynt District of Sutherland.It has with wild brown trout and char for fishing and is  popular with tourists.It is about 7 metres (21 feet) deep. It is said to be the home of a kelpie.

Usually in the form of a  horse, kelpies live by lakes /lochs and  tempt passersby to ride on their backs.The rider finds themselves unable to dismount .The kelpie then dives into the water,drowning the rider which it later eats. The kelpie at Borralan is said to appear as a white steed.

The story goes that   two fishermen went missing when fishing at the side of the loch.The only things found by searchers were a brace of fish and  two fishing rods.Large hoof prints were seen in the sand .They appeared to come from the loch and disappeared back into the water.

The Assynt area is a place of strangeness:

Loch Assynt is a few miles  inland from the  west coast of the Scottish Highlands in Sutherland. In 1837 two fishermen claimed to see a strange creature ,not once but twice.Also in the same area Loch Awe is a large fresh water loch . There have been stories of a creature in the Loch going back hundreds of years. The creature is said to come ashore during winter and can be heard growling and panting.

Read rest here:

https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2022/06/three-lochsone-monster.html

Stories of Kelpies are common .

Map of lochs with kelpies

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1I0Jks27q9VE94UE40FiNR2G732M&hl=en_US&ll=56.93641755164652%2C-5.048162209277626&z=6

Do Kelpies exist or are they just folk tales? What do you think?