Hardwood Lake Snake
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 6th, 2007
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A very pronounced fish story comes from Barry county, Michigan, where, we are “told,” a monster resembling a snake is residing in Harwood Lake. It is represented as being about twenty feet long, and from five to seven inches in diameter. It has been seen a number of times – once, last summer, by a Swede, who supposed it to be the devil.
The other day his snakeship was seen again by a boy, who was fishing at the time, and had quite a string of fish lying on the bank. The boy says the snake came out of the water, and, with one gulp, swallowed fish, string, and all, and then came for him; and he, not particularly wishing for such an associate, made tracks for a more congenial companion.
“It is said” that the teeth of this serpent are three or four inches long.South Side Signal, Babylon, New York, August 27, 1870
Thanks for this historical item from Jerome Clark.
Thank you all for a successful first weeks of the 2007 release of MA, which will make it easier for anyone looking for Lake Monster reports and writing and reading these kinds of books. Appreciation.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
5 to 7 inches in diameter and teeth 3 or 4 inches long don’t go together, unless it looks like a deep sea viper eel or something.