I just saw this and I wasnt sure if this was posted. If it was im sorry. I am heading out the door from work and I wanted to get it posted before I shut down.




http://www.wnbc.com/slideshow/news//17458037/detail.html


Thank you

Kind of cool.

Now that looks like something I've never seen before,Good find.

Wow...I've never seen that before. Strange, since I have been to West Hartford. But good pictures, they look very interesting. Looks a bit like a crocodile. I agree, great find!

Well I've never seen anything like that either.

And I spent the first 30 years of my life in West Hartford, right around there.

It's not at all remote, and it's not at all deep. It's in one of most developed and used areas of town. We're probably looking at floating garbage, something in a plastic flotation toy.

Very nice, the most probable explanation. Although it would be cool to see a mutant croc or other strange creature living in it, we are not talking about the Loch Ness. If it was more rural, I might say something, but last time I checked the lake wasn't all too clean, either, was it?

Hehe, it looks like a cross between a hippo and a croc. None of which I'm guessing are in conneticut. For a minute I got excited and thought it was in Harford Co. in MD not Hartford.....just more evidence nothing neat happens here.

i heard tell once that dead logs rotting at the bottom of the lake can surface do to the gases and look like that. not sayin gthat is what it is. but notice how the dorsal spines (if that is what they are) dont undulate? they are the same fixed position. still a great find though. thanks for sharing.

Cool pictures, good find. What it is; I have no idea, but it looks interesting. Too bad it wasn't caught on video, as you can learn a lot by observing how things move.

Good Journey.

Kyle Rajasthan.

yeah i saw this somewhere else!!!...some say its an alligator, some say a hippo, and i also heard a snapping turtle......i think its a cryptoid!!!!!!!!..........they shud try and fish for it!!!!....get like a crow bar as a hook and a raw steak for bait....

Yeah, I thought it was really cool when I saw it and since I didn't see it on here, I just had to share. I always read the posts on here and never post. I was waiting to get flamed to search the forums for this exact topic so I made sure I did that first


Ill keep my eyes open for more stuff


-Jfinx

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange...21&catid=82
Just a little googled news to supplement the pics.

Interesting, but likely some kind of wooden structure doing the natural broaching and sinking that wood often does as it rots.

im not trying to be skeptic of the photo but they look like seals or otters. but there probably aren't any seals in co.

The link didn't work for me......

u dont need the link, just type in West Hartford Co. Monster in google and its pretty much everywhere and r practically all the same....

Is this the place?

It does not look like a great place for a cryptid to hide. My vote is on toy after one of the pics seems to have a red eye.

Seems to be quite a few water bodies. Do they all connect to that river?

A peice of floating trash.

either its an escaped crocodile, odd looking logs, or a sturgeon, which have plates on their back

There are very few crocodiles in West Hartford, and the lake is way too shallow for sturgeon.

There is, however, a fair amount of garbage in it.

I never thought I'd see the day that a town bordering my hometown would be discussed anywhere on this site, let alone in the cryptids page.

I was taking a walk at that reservoir 2 weekends ago on a visit home (there's some beautiful woods on the property, and they're open to the public for "hiking"). I've done that probably 5 times in the past couple years.

This is total garbage. I don't know what's in there - hell, it probably IS garbage - but it's definitely not some giant monster.

i dont think garbage would look like that in that shape. wouldnt it just sink?

most likely an out of place sturgeon

Take a plastic alligator shaped flotation device (like my kids used to have), put a hole in it and sink it halfway.

There's your monster.

look im not rejecting your explanation, but im not making any incredible theories. it resembles a lake sturgeon, not a monster. however you may be right.

i think that someone would identify a plastic alligator toy before a sturgeon

All she had to do was wade out to it and haul it into shore.

But then there'd be no story.

he he he ha ha ... O.O i live in hartford county and like right near it too ! *takes camera* time to search!

anyone fish there???....

Got it in one

Looks like a slightly submerged hippo eating an alligator.