Comments on: East Okoboji Sea Serpent?

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:51:39 +0000

Just think of the stuff that could be buried in the mud of the great glacial outwash that is much of the northe central plains of North Americal…carcasses of creatures slowly decaying, or large woody debris, or some creature finding refuge in the last bit of cold sediments at the bottom of a kettle moraine. Fascinating stuff.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:37:55 +0000

In 1903, I’d easier believe a mammoth (I found a tooth in a peat bog we farmed a couple hours east of there)than a monster catfish or alligator.

So, what? I would guess an animal in the water. Maybe a moose? Every once and a while they do come south from Minnesota.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:58:04 +0000

The couple sounded believable. Hey, you never know…

I’m not saying people cannot be stupid (of course they can be) but I would think if it was a “Geological disturbance,” (as Lukedog put it) they would have recognized it as such.

Most people have enough “life experience” to “know better.”

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:37:39 +0000

Catfish have been known to get pretty large. I don’t know much about the bullhead fish, but it is a catfish and they do get pretty big if they don’t have to do too much and there is plenty of food coming right to them. It said “During the summer months, it is prone to stratification and to overgrowth with algae.” That would give any bottom feeder food for a lifetime all the time. With it so shallow, it wouldn’t take anything too large, like they are thinking, to almost tip their boat. Let’s just hope it was a large bullhead or plant eating sea serpent. We wouldn’t want alligators living there, would we?

By: crapple

crapple — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:35:49 +0000

im thinking the same thing….maybe it was an overturned skiff, with a faulty motor of some sort

By: lukedog

lukedog — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:18:22 +0000

That lake is not deep enough to host a large..anything. perhaps they experienced a geological event.