Two Lake Walkers and their Monsters
This Walker Lake is a natural lake, in western Nevada in the USA. It is 11 miles (17
km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide The
lake is fed by the Walker River .The lakebed is a remainder of prehistoric Lake
Lahontan that covered part of Nevada
during the ice age.
There is a legend of a monster in its depths. The lake was the home of the Paiute tribe who told the settlers stories of
a giant snake-like creature that lived in the lake, and was known to have eaten
humans . They refused to go fishing on the lake because of the legend.
In 1868, it was reported to
the to the editor of the Esmerelda Union ,Aurora, a man called Reuben Strathers
said he and a friend had killed one of the monsters. The creature was described
as having a head similar to a crocodile, with its front feet near its neck,
with a long tail and covered in scales .
In 1907 The Washington Herald reported that Don Cornelison and his friend John McCorry
had been fishing in a boat when they
spotted the something strange .
The report stated:
“Cornelison says that at first sight he took the serpent for a man in a skiff,
and when it disappeared for a moment he thought the boat had capsized, and
rowed toward the spot, when it suddenly reappeared, giving them a good view of
its proportions, which they estimated to be about thirty feet in length and six
feet across the back.”
In 1909, the Reno Evening
Gazette reported that a Japanese railroad worker had attempted to swim ashore
from a boat but was drown and the monster was thought to be responsible as no
remains were found.
In July 1915, the Walker River Bulletin printed a
piece that monsters had disrupted the
lake into a large wave like a Tsunami. There had been a violent disturbance in the water near Dutch Creek. It was so large that some people believed it to be a volcanic
eruption underwater.Others blamed the monsters. The story said, “After the
outburst or upheaval of water, which sent white horses in every direction,
white smoke or fog arose to the crest of Mountain Grant.”
(Which sounds to me like an explosion or eruption)
In 1934 the Mineral County
Independent reported that underground springs fed into Walker Lake and there
was an underground passage to Pyramid Lake,enabling the creatures to pass
theough.
There are also legends of a
serpent in Pyramid lake .It was reported to Major Henry Douglas in the 1870s
that “The Pyramid Lake Paiutes tell of their ancestors seeing a large snake or
serpent in the lake some two or three hundred feet long.” Again it was said to
eat humans .
Sightings are still reported sometimes
today by campers and hikers.The serpent is nicknamed Cecil.
Walker Lake is the source of the Kobuk River in
northwestern Alaska. The lake is located deep in the remote interior of
northern Alaska. Explored during an expedition led by John C. Cantwell in 1885.
Locally known as "Big Fish Lake". The indigenous people ,the Inupiaq have
a legend which tells of giant, ferocious fish that lives in the lake . An attempt was made by a member of the Cantwell expedition to catch one of these
giant fish using a hook made of an
entire set of reindeer antlers baited with a whole goose.However it was
unsuccessful and giant man eating fish are still said to be living in the
waters .
There is another Alaskan lake with giant fish Read about it here :
https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/05/alaskan-lake-monster.html
What
I find interesting is there are two lake Murrays both supposed to have
monsters.Is there something in a name?Are some names linked to Fortean
activity? There is a Bridgewater in the UK and one in the USA ,both areas of
strange phenomena
Read about the Lake Murrays here: https://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-lake-murray-monsters.html
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