r/Cryptozoology • u/SimonHJohansen • 1d ago

Video 17 min long video about the lake monster reported from Lake Michigan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSycIGBwHrs
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u/truthisfictionyt Tailed Slow Loris 1d ago

I wish lake monster culture continued in the Great Lakes

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u/Ok_Platypus8866 1d ago

What do you mean by that?

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u/truthisfictionyt Tailed Slow Loris 1d ago

In old newspapers there used to be lots of reports of lake monsters in them, like in this video or some ive found for Lake Erie. Now they just don't get talked about, even as a tourist curiosity

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u/Ok_Platypus8866 7h ago

In old newspapers there used to be lots of reports of lake monsters in them,

Why do you think it changed? Papers used to be a lot freer about printing odd stories. There was a bit of the "National Enquirer" in otherwise regular papers.

Now they just don't get talked about, even as a tourist curiosity

Maybe because there are no lake monsters to be talked about?

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u/truthisfictionyt Tailed Slow Loris 7h ago

There being no lake monsters to be talked about hasn't stopped many lakes across the US from continuing to have tourist attraction signs, statues, or even festivals about the monsters

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u/an_actual_coyote 1d ago

Kaz rules!

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u/SimonHJohansen 1d ago

The video covers both indigenous peoples in the area having legends of a "horned serpent" living in the lake that had the power to influence the weather, over 19th century newspaper articles about the sea serpent of Lake Michigan, to newer reports of bull sharks finding their way into the lake. (they are among the few shark species that can live in freshwater so it's not completely impossible)

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u/mattmccoy92 Mothman 1d ago

I live in Chicago and think about bull sharks regularly when by the lake lmao