I know this sounds funny, but I have heard a lot about some lakes here in Michigan that my have some unknown creature living in them.
This one lake, I can't think of what the name of the lake is. It is a rather small lake in raidius. I have heard that people have seen something in the lake. I thought it was rather ridiculous But one day, my brother and I was going by the lake to go and see a friend. We noticed a man was putting his boat in the lake. The friend wasn't home so we went back home. It was about 5 minutes from the first time we went by the lake and when we returned by it the guy was taking his boat back out of the lake.
i know where exactly the lake is so if you want to know PM me.
Now the other lake, and again I am not sure of the name( I would have to ask my husband). Anyway my husband was telling about a time that he and a friend and his ex-wife was fishing on the lake. He wasn't paying any attention to the fish finder but the friend and ex-wife was when it went totally black. They then felt a bump on the bottom of the boat.
So I was wondering if anybody has ever heard of any stories around there home town.

Well, i just bought a house on a lake and with a pool here in Tampa,anyway,I have seen a couple of strange things flopping around on top of the water but have no clue what the #$%@ it is.....If i get a chance(and get lucky)i might take a pic or 2 ...

l live near a lake monster , it is nickenamed Manipogo, this is a description of the creature , A lake monster sighted in Lake Manitoba in Canada. Described as looking like a giant snake or eel, the creature is dark brown and up to 30 feet long. A photograph was taken of the monster, showing a dark, serpentine animal on the surface of the water. Manipogo is also said to roar, something that neither snakes nor eels do.

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Lake Superior's Pressie




Pressie (named for the Presque Isle River where one of the best sightings occurred) is one of the world's most seldom seen lake monsters. This is likely due to the sheer vastness of Lake Superior.



Known as Mishipishu (and variations thereof) to the area's native people, the animal is depicted in pictographs at various shoreline sites, either as a spiky cat-like creature (its Ojibway name means "great lynx") or as a serpent (sometimes called by other names).


Modern sightings indicate a serpentine species up to at least 75 feet in length with a horse-like head on a longish neck and a bilobate (whale-type) tail. They swim in a vertically undulating fashion and are said to be dark green to black in color.


Sightings:


In September 1894, about halfway between Whitefish Point and Copper Harbor, Michigan, the crews of two steamers observed one of these creatures undulating along in the twilight, its back protruding 6 to 8 feet out of the water.


In July 1895, three members of a steamer crew observed a "hideous creature" off Whitefish Point (MI) which seemed at times to be deliberately pacing their ship. They claimed it had a 15 foot neck and at least a foot wide jaw.


In 1897 near Duluth (MN), a Detroit man fell overboard when his yacht struck a rock. He was then attacked by a huge serpent which alledgedly tried to constrict him in the manner of a large Boid snake. Apparently his 3 shipmates also saw the beast.


In the middle 1930's, a serpent, cruising along at 8.5 to 9 miles per hour, was observed by two fisherman at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore by Munising, Michigan. The animal created a strong wake as it swam along the rocky shore.


On a summer day in the early 1960's, an entire family watched a huge animal, alternately showing humps and stretching out straight, swim upriver past the North coast of Sugar Island (MI). No head or tail was observed and it resembled a log when stretched out straight.


Sometime during Memorial Day weekend in 1977, North of Ironwood (MI), hiker Randy Braun was menaced by a huge serpent with a horse-like head and two catfish-type whiskers. As he hid behind a boulder, he managed to snap one photograph of the animal. This is the photo featured on the next page of this site!


In the summer of 1981 or 1982 in Munising,MI, four children and teenagers, all siblings, observed a serpent showing 3-5 humps rising 1-2 feet out of the water (the slower it went the higher the humps). As it came within about 20 yards of the private beach, one of the children ran away crying and the animal headed away showing lower humps.


In the middle 1990's, during the summer, fishermen watched in horror as a large aquatic animal pulled a wading buck deer under (leaving only it's severed head) near Point Iroquois, Michigan.

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Every lake with any self respect has a monster in it.

Its spelled tourist trap.

There is a large man-made lake I live by called Lake Kemp. Maintenance workers for the dam say they've seen catfish the size of small cars. Sounds like a lake monster to me.

I think that some of the monsters that people are seeing in the inland lakes maybe just large turtles or something of that nature. I am not sure as I haven't witnessed any myself. I have thought of sitting by the first lake that I mentioned and see if I can see anything and try to video tape it if possible. But I never had the time to do it, and now I live farther away from it.
I have lived in Michigan all of my life and never heard of the one in Lake Superior. I have always wondered if there was one in Lake Michigan. Seeing how there is the Lake Michigan Triangle. As large the Great Lakes are there could be more to them then what reseachers have found.

A lake near my town is called Mahopac, which an old Algonquian Indian word for "The Lake of the Great Serpent". It's not a very big lake, and when ever I go boating on it, I have never seen a Great Serpent. I just think it's interesting.

That is basically why I started this topic. I figured since everybody talks about Nessie and Champ, why don't we try and see where there are other such creatures. Maybe a little closer to home.

there'sa lake north of here about an 50-60 miles called muskrat lake in cobourg, ontario.
apparently there has been something seen quit a few times in that lake, and it's very deep.

I have heard about that....I live by cobourg as well. I believe it was a cross between a serpent like eel, and a crocidile from what I heard.

I wish someone would find tangible proof of one of these lake monsters already.

I actually live near one of the big boys-Champ. I've never seen him myself, but my wife ,who used to camp on the lake as a kid and in her teens, has seen unexplained ripples and wakes several times, but no actual monster.The lake I am actually closest to is Saratoga Lake, a average sized body of water that I don't think has any monsters(it's only 400 ft deep) but there has been an odd number of UFO sightings over it over the years, including one which apparently went into the lake back in the 60s.I don't know if that was ever investigated, but it's definately part of the local lore.There used to be an AirForce radar base right near my house and quite close to the lake that operated from the '50s -the late '70s, so maybe that had something to do with the UFOs.

There's a Lake Shitagoo (no kidding, google it) in Ontario, Canada that sports a creature the locals have dubbed "Gooy." It's been described as long and brownish, and has mostly been spotted near the water treatment plant.

...wow. That can be taken so many ways. Maybe they put the water treatment plant there because the name was appropriate?

i live on a lake in West MN and i havent seen any thing suspitions at all

Yo whats up guys! I started a thread but no one ansewered my ? so I was told to come to this one and answer it but anyways have there been any stories about any Lake Monsters in Lake Michigan?Thanks

The most common error found in "monster" sightings are attributed to sturgeons. Some sturgeons have been known to weigh 1,500 pounds and if anyone visits Mountain Home, Idaho, you will see in a gas station there a photo of two horses pulling a sturgeon from the Snake River. The sturgeon often rises to the surface and breaks water and because of its size and length, it is mistaken for a "monster."

That is true Sturgeons are very large and prehistoric so I would call them The Monsters of the fresh water fish.

yes, sturgeons can grow big...more than 12 ft long and 1000 lbs. I have caught 1 sturgeon before, but it was a measly 70 lbs

These huge sturgeon are Very rare know....in the US, probably the only place to have the sligtest chance of catching a monster is the Columbia/Snake R., around Seattle, and in the waters off Tampa bay. There might still eb giant sturgeon living In BC, Canada and Alaska.

@ cubsfan23, the only monster sighting in lake MI was near Traverse City, where 2 people were spearfishing for carp, and they said they saw a huge scaly back moving through the water and dissapear

Alright thanks very much and do you know when it happened or do you got a link?

There is a creek that runs through my neighborhood. If you follow it for about half a mile, it widens into a very tiny pond... There is a forty feet long pond monster which lives in this twenty feet wide pond... it's kinda crazy, i think it uses some type of spatial distortion device... I think it was originally a lake monster on some technologically advanced alien world and stole a spatial distortion device and a spaceship and came to earth and now lives in the pond...