On the subject of places with the same name having
fortean activity ,I came across the Silver Lakes.
Silver Lake Massachusetts
Silver Lake is
in Plympton, Massachusetts. The Pembroke/Plympton town line is within
the lake, and a portion of the western shoreline of the lake is the town line
with Halifax. The inflow of the pond is Tubbs Meadow Brook Access to the pond
is through Silver Lake Sanctuary.
In the 1940s and 1950s there were reports of a “lake
monster” – believed to be a “giant frog” or a “frogman” in the Lake. It was mentioned in old newspaper
articles. Locals believed it but little else is known.
Loren Coleman did write about it in article on
October 25, 2013 Boston Globe article titled "Monsters of New England”
However it had no more information.
Silver Lake Saugus Massachusetts
Breakheart Reservation is a public recreation area
covering 652 acres in the towns of Saugus and Wakefield, Massachusetts. A
creature was reported there that looked like an alligator.In 2011 wildlife
officials hunted for it fearing it had taken up residence there. Officials from
the Department of Conservation and Recreation searched Silver Lake in the
Breakheart Reservation Park in Saugus on July 28, 2011, after sighting two
alligators. No alligator was found.
Read story here:
Silver Lake New York
Silver Lake originated
several thousand years ago when retreating glaciers left western New York.It
has a maximum depth of 37 feet(12 metres).
According to the indigenous people The Seneca, the
lake was home to a slug-like creature. That monster of the Silver Lake creature was killed ,
according to folklore, after a thunderstorm drew it from the lake. John John,
the elder in the Squawkie Hill Indian Reservation said that the Seneca used to avoid Silver Lake
because of big, foul-smelling snake that lived beneath its waters. They had left
the lake in 1820 just to get away from the beast.
Then in the 1880s : an unknown mysterious animal
was sighted in Perry, New York. The Serpent
of Silver Lake was first seen on July 13th, 1885 by four fishermen who saw what
they thought was a huge log – until it moved in a serpentine manner. Over a
hundred people saw the serpent during the next several weeks. Hoards of people
travelled to Silver Lake, hoping to see or kill it. The creature’s last
appearance was in the late summer of 1885.
It was however a hoax :
In 1857,
there was a fire at A. B. Walker's hotel. Firemen found a contraption, about 60
feet long, made of waterproof canvas with coils inside with weights attached to
it, a hose and large bellows to inflate it and ropes to move it, in the attic –
the remains of the Silver Lake serpent.
Walker
wanted to increase his hotel business, so he and friends created the serpent.
After they were almost discovered with their contraption, they stored it in the
hotel’s attic. Walker left Perry after the hoax was discovered. The townspeople
of enjoyed the hoax. They decided to hold an annual Sea Serpent Balloon
Festival that commemorates the “serpent.”
Source:
https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2011/04/serpent-of-silver-lake-hoax.html
The Hotelier used the local legend to his own
advantage ,but it was another Silver Lake that had a lake monster in folklore
.So maybe there is something in a name ,what do you think?
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