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[waypoetic]

The Land Of Fairy Tales.

Except all of those creatures are fake, riiiiight?

 

[Ecotic]

The Land Of Fairy Tales.

Except all of those creatures are fake, riiiiight?

The giant turtles are plausible. In the sense that it's probably just a really big, really old snapping turtle that fishermen exaggerated further over the years.

 

[Jacob]

I live in Maryland and have heard of Chessie. I also have an aunt and uncle who live near Lake Champlain and they told us about Champ when we went out on the lake in their boat. I always wished I got to visit the sight of a more original monsters rather than just another Loch Ness ripoff, though. Winged alligator snakes FTW. xP

 

[v1lla21]

Ahh I remember when my cousins and I first found out about Tessie. On one of our annual trips to Tahoe we stayed by the lake for a long time just to see if anything would pop up. We were young, around 6 years of age. I remember a person telling us that scientists came and took Tessie for research. We were pretty bummed out and went to the arcade.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/lost-tapes/videos/oklahoma-octopus.htm

So somehow an unknown large species of saltwater octopus managed to get to Oklahoma, where they lived in all of the lakes in Oklahoma (and just Oklahoma) unknown for millennia, they all like to eat or attack humans, and they just started attacking people recently.

Yeah okay

 

[WorldStar]

The giant turtles are plausible. In the sense that it's probably just a really big, really old snapping turtle that fishermen exaggerated further over the years.

turtles can get fucking huge

 

[cartoon_soldier]

SciFi needs to do a movie on each one of these

 

[Dog Problems]

I live in Indiana and have never heard of the Beast of Busco. I wonder if it was just an alligator snapping turtle that was seen because they can get pretty big and they do look like a monster.

 

[WorldStar]

So somehow an unknown large species of saltwater octopus managed to get to Oklahoma, where they lived in all of the lakes in Oklahoma (and just Oklahoma) unknown for millennia, they all like to eat or attack humans, and they just started attacking people recently.

Yeah okay

 

[Byakuya769]

turtles can get fucking huge

That looks like neither a Green Sea Turtle or a Leatherback. Fake.

 

[WorldStar]

That looks like neither a Green Sea Turtle or a Leatherback. Fake.

9ft leatherback

no clue if the other one I posted is real, but this guy's skeleton is in a museum

 

[youngwerther]

There probably really is a giant octopus in Lake Dirty Bird.

 

[cafemomo]

lol giant eel pig?

 

[Dune1975]

I live in Indiana and have never heard of the Beast of Busco. I wonder if it was just an alligator snapping turtle that was seen because they can get pretty big and they do look like a monster.

Indeed that seems to be the General consensus, probably the same as the New Mexico one as well. These buggers can get pretty big, 200 pounds isn't uncommon, and up to 350 has been confirmed

 

[Byakuya769]

9ft leatherback

no clue if the other one I posted is real, but this guy's skeleton is in a museum

That's more like it. The other one looks like a model of the extinct archelon.

 

[Ecotic]

Those are all sea turtles though, these sightings are freshwater lakes. It's probably just a really huge snapping turtle.

 

[Teknoman]

That goat dude sounds kinda creepy.

 

[Dead Man]

None in Oregon? That seems unlikely, they love their tall tales in the backwoods up there.

That's more like it. The other one looks like a model of the extinct archelon.

Which was fucking awesome, just quietly. First non dinosaur prehistoric animal thing I learned about when I was a kid.

Those are all sea turtles though, these sightings are freshwater lakes. It's probably just a really huge snapping turtle.

Unless Stupendemys has returned from the dead.

 

[Byakuya769]

Those are all sea turtles though, these sightings are freshwater lakes. It's probably just a really huge snapping turtle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupendemys

Believe!

Spoiler

yeah, guaranteed to be some snappers

 

[indigo-cyclops]

turtles can get fucking huge

Photoshopped without a doubt.

 

[WorldStar]

so were Stupendemys the largest turtles to ever exist?

man...if I saw one of those in person...would be too fucking awesome

Photoshopped without a doubt.

doubt it, probably a movie prop

 

[Delio]

HAH I remember hearing about Goatman at camp when I was younger. There were always stories of kids spotting Goatman on this trail going to school thru this slightly thick brush. Fun legend there lol.

 

[Ecotic]

so were Stupendemys were the largest turtles to ever exist?

man...if I saw one of those in person...would be too fucking awesome

It looks a decent bit larger than Archelon, the largest ever sea turtle.

Stupendemys

Archelon

Honestly it probably just depends upon if we have a 1:1 comparison fossils. The ones we found may have been juveniles, or at least not a full grown 'buck', so to speak. And if they were, we may have found smaller than average individuals, or larger than average ones.

 

[Host Samurai]

That Goat creature sounds like he's straight out of Dark Souls

 

[acrid]

Where's Man-Bear Pig? It's a creature that's half man, half bear, and half pig. Also, you all know the Goatman is Torgo, right?

 

[Frankie Williamson]

I can't tell whether I'm pissed off that we'll likely never know what made the Bloop, or terrified that we might eventually find out.

Wasn't "The Bloop" just an underwater icequake?

 

[Teknoman]

That Goat creature sounds like he's straight out of Dark Souls

lol yeah it really does.

 

[WorldStar]

Wasn't "The Bloop" just an underwater icequake?

that's one theory

 

[Smellycat]

Photoshopped without a doubt.

I think it is just a prop, but how is the harness thing connected to the turtle? I am trying to picture it, but I am having a hard time. Is it simply circling around the outer shell?

 

[happypup]

Also, 99% of these stories are made up, 1% are from people like me who are terrified of deep water, see a fish splashing in the water and immediately conclude that it was a lake monster.

All fish are lake monsters, tiny tasty lake monsters.

 

[mre]

Holy Shit! LOL. I can't believe this made it in there. This crazy homeless blogger lady in my town called EelKat talks about this White Monkey, but there are zero accounts of this legendary creature anywhere here in Maine.

http://eelkat.hubpages.com/hub/The-Saco-River-Curse

You were not fucking around when you called her crazy: http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat

I am an adult Indigo Child, a natural born Psychic and Faerie Channel. Working towards Mental Health Nursing & Clinical Psychology student working towards a Psy.D to become an Alien Abduction Psychotherapist using Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Color Therapy, Guided Creative Visualization, Faerie Healing and Angel Therapy to bring both spiritual and emotional healing to those traumatized by abduction memories.