Comments on: Sea Serpent Immune To Bullets

By: plant girl

plant girl — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:57:48 +0000

If there is a lochness monster it may not be around for long if people are shooting at it.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:49:12 +0000

Dogu4- I was not familiar with this particular region, so thank you for the very informative post concerning its geological history and particular idiosyncrasies.

I have some thoughts about this story, assuming the described event even happened. As far as the claim that it is “impervious to bullets goes”, I’m not so sure how those hunters could assume the thing actually was bulletproof. How did they know it was unhurt? Lack of blood? Lack of visible injury? Would they be able to definitively tell those things under the circumstances? These are pieces of information I’d like to know before assuming anything such as imperviousness to bullets. In many instances an animal can be shot, seriously wounded, yet still flee and sometimes get a considerable distance before finally succumbing to its injuries. Or maybe it was injured, but its wounds were not life threatening and it managed to escape. A large animal being shot, then diving underwater to escape or go off somewhere else to die is not unheard of, so maybe this plus the surprise of seeing something so unexplainable to them caused the hunters to get the impression of it being bullet proof. Animals that are misunderstood often get attributed capabilities, abilities, or physical characteristics that they do not actually have, so I think this is plausible.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:05:45 +0000

In this case I would guess two things at work here…one I do not think the guns back in 1919 had a lot of stopping power…suppose it depends on what they were carrying…

and two since it was only described as having a serpent’s tail, I would also think possibly a sturgeon–don’t those boys have thick armor like backs…

of course the 35 foot length is troubling…but since it sounds like this one was reported at least second hand, the length could be exxxxxxagerated too…

still on the other hand, I would not totally dismiss the account, but look into that area to see what other odd sightings are going on or have gone on in the surrounding area. If we start seeing a pattern of sightings that help corroborate this one, then I’d say we have something to go on…

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:59:10 +0000

Interesting. I’m very familiar with the natural history of the Basin and Range geological region in which this lake is located and it indeed is a remnant of the lake system that included Pleistocene Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville during cooler and damper climate regimes. Giant lake trout and other species that we associate with the rives of the west are a possibility though there hasn’t been an outlet connecting this system since Lake Bonneville drained into the Snake River several thousand years ago. The Snake River does empty into the Columbia and so perhaps when the conditions were just right a population of sturgeon or some unknown large species was able to establish itself in these lakes, adapted by growing in size as trout have in big lakes many times in that family of species and as they slowly adapted to the increasing salinity and temperatures that characterize the basin lakes that still linger in this geologic dominon.

That said, having been to pyramid lake a couple of times, it should be pointed out that optical illusions are also part of the natural history of the area with temperature inversions, and cool marine-like layers of air, and surprisingly clear conditions combinig with wind fetched waves, floating logs, and even actual fish rising to the surface, to make mirage, fata morgana and other vaireties of optical illusion a not unlikely explanation too to maginify or distort whatever thing one is observing, real or imaginary.

By: Rappy

Rappy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:50:20 +0000

sschaper: According to Wikipedia (I know, not the best source, but it is where I usually find items I trust to be non-controversial), Pyramid Lake is indeed one of the largest lakes in the United States, and is a salt lake found in Nevada as part of a formerly much larger water structure. The armor-like skin quality in conjunction with the fins and “comes to the surface of the water and lives” sounds almost like a very large gar of some sort. If it wasn’t a fish, but a reptile or mammal, perhaps it had osteoderms to cause the bullet-defense?

By: stormwalkernz1

stormwalkernz1 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:44:03 +0000

perhaps these animals have sub dermal dentricles like the giant Ground Sloth you to have.
That would explain the imperviousness to bullets.

Tony Lucas
New Zealand cryptozoologist.

By: jakersHD

jakersHD — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Im thinking it could be either like ‘Maine crypto’ said a mammal with thick skin and a layer of blubber, or reptilian with thick scales

By: sschaper

sschaper — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:38:47 +0000

What is this Pyramid Lake? There are a lot of big lakes west of the Great Lakes, including Lake Winnepeg, Lake Yellowstone, etc.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:04:33 +0000

I am wondering the specifics of what it looked like . I’ve read that the sea serpents (and I use the term loosely) around that area of America has ears and a snout. No one else talked about how tough its skin was.

By: Maine Crypto

Maine Crypto — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:17:35 +0000

This is interesting…. My thoughts are that if this is a mammal, it may have a layer of blubber and therefore not be as affected by the bullets. Any more sightings in the area?