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A Map of the United States' Mythical Lake Monsters
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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.
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
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
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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
cartoon_soldier
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SciFi needs to do a movie on each one of these
Dog Problems
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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.
Byakuya769
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turtles can get fucking huge
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
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There probably really is a giant octopus in Lake Dirty Bird.
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
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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.
None in Oregon? That seems unlikely, they love their tall tales in the backwoods up there.
Which was fucking awesome, just quietly. First non dinosaur prehistoric animal thing I learned about when I was a kid.
Unless Stupendemys has returned from the dead.
Which was fucking awesome, just quietly. First non dinosaur prehistoric animal thing I learned about when I was a kid.
Unless Stupendemys has returned from the dead.
Byakuya769
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indigo-cyclops
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turtles can get fucking huge
Photoshopped without a doubt.
so were Stupendemys the largest turtles to ever exist?
man...if I saw one of those in person...would be too fucking awesome
doubt it, probably a movie prop
man...if I saw one of those in person...would be too fucking awesome
doubt it, probably a movie prop
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
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That Goat creature sounds like he's straight out of Dark Souls
Frankie Williamson
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Wasn't "The Bloop" just an underwater icequake?
lol yeah it really does.
that's one theory
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?
All fish are lake monsters, tiny tasty lake monsters.
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
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