Pitt Lake and its creatures

 

  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.