From an enormous octopus to an eel pig – this is America’s weirdest lake monster myths

There’s been a number of lake monster sightings throughout the US and these vary from claims of an enormous octopus to a half eel half pig creature.

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Atlas Obscura created a map of all of the ‘lake monsters’ in America.

This is 4 of the creepiest sounding creatures that may make you suppose twice about going for a swim.

Big Octopus of Lake Thunderbird

Regardless that an octopus technically would not have the ability to survive in a freshwater lake, there’s nonetheless a rumor that there is one in Oklahoma.

An enormous octopus delusion surrounds Lake Thunderbird.

Myths and rumors recommend the octopus is as massive as a horse with lengthy tentacles that drag swimmers to their deaths.

Lake Value Monster

You can keep away from an enormous octopus if you happen to stayed out the water however you’d must tackle Texas’s Lake Value Monster on land.

The monster of Lake Value precipitated mass hysteria again in 1969.

In keeping with Texan folklore, it is a legendary creature that inhabits Lake Value on the Fort Value Nature Middle and Refuge.

It is stated to be half man, half goat and lives on land and within the water.

Within the late Nineteen Sixties, newspapers reported on sighting of the monster.

It allegedly jumped out of a tree onto a person’s automobile and left a path of useless sheep with snapped necks across the lake.

Some individuals blamed highschool college students in a fancy dress however no offender was ever caught.

Eel Pig of Herrington Lake

Kentucky has its personal lake monster delusion.

Folklore states there’s an eel-like pig creature with a protracted curly tail that lives in Herrington Lake.

One concept for the story is that sightings had been truly of an enormous alligator.

Alkali Lake Monster

The monster of Alkali Lake in Nebraska had a watch witness report in 1923.

The shocked witness stated it seemed like an alligator with a single rhino-like horn.

It was additionally stated to roar from the water and apparently smelled horrible.

Sightings peaked within the Twenties and no affordable clarification for the monster sightings was agreed upon.

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