Comments on: Lake Springfield’s Suspicious Serpent

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:51:55 +0000

kinda reminds me of the X-Files where he is looking for a dino, but finds an alligator instead. I’d say Lake Placid, but I found that one to be too funny (mainly because of its allstar cast). So we believe it to be a snake, yeah! Pop open the Champagne! I’m sorry, but unless this thing is absolutely huge…I can’t exactly get excited. Besides, being a man made lake, there is very little possibility that this thing is anything more than just a snake looking for easy eats.

By: twblack

twblack — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:19:12 +0000

I have to agree it is most likely an exotic pet snake that got to large for it owners to handle.

By: Alligator

Alligator — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:46:14 +0000

Just how big is “big” here? A really big Northern Water Snake will get to 40+ inches, but they are so chunky, they actually look even bigger. A Diamondback can hit 50+ inches. For people not used to seeing large snakes of any type, they can easily seem to be of almost supernatural proportions. Think fishermen - that’s why they invented Deliars!

It probably is a yellow phase Burmese Python or maybe even a Yellow Anaconda (considerably smaller than the Green Anaconda). They turn up all the time in Florida and occasionally elsewhere. If it is a tropical exotic, once the temperature stays at 60 degrees or below for an extended period of time, it is a goner.

By: ponyboy

ponyboy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:27:51 +0000

I’d have to agree with planettom in that it is more likely than not a released exotic pet. The first thing that came to my mind when they mentioned a large yellow snake was a yellow-albino burmese python. They are excellent swimmers, so it’s not unlikely that one could survive in the lake habitat. Of course, most burmese pythons prefer to live in underbrush on land, so it’s not really a big surprise they haven’t been able to find it in the lake since…

By: planettom

planettom — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:48:29 +0000

So I scoured the internet and found no picture, but found several other news clips about the same story. Fun story, but not picture out yet. Let’s hope that someone gets another picture and posts it somewhere, maybe here on cryptomundo! My guess is that it (the snake) is a released or escaped exotic. But who knows! Let’s hope for a pic to come out soon.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:34:42 +0000

Could it be something like this?

http://photos.soboring.org/images/zoo/yellow%20snake-thumb.jpg

By: bill green

bill green — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:08:10 +0000

hey loren nice article indeed, but i wish fox news would realy take the stories about bigfoot or nessie more seriously in nuteral sence not joke around about these pheanomenas but i guess thats how all media networks treat these subjects. these networks should be professnial covering storys like this just my opinion i hope you write a follow up article or reply in cryptomundo about my opinion if you want too ok. lets put this way cnn did a better interview with you than fox news. thank you bill green

By: Rillo777

Rillo777 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:00:12 +0000

HMMM…Large YELLOW snake…SPRINGFIELD….Was the guy who took the picture named Homer Simpson by any chance?

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:54:20 +0000

Hard to speculate on without seeing the photo myself. Anyway to post it here? I’d be willing to say that there is a reasonably good chance that it is an exotic snake of some sort released into the lake just because it hasn’t been seen by many and the sighting is so recent. I’d think a long time resident cryptid snake would have been seen more frequently over a long period of time, so in my opinion it could very well be an exotic that was recently released. Of course it could also be a species that somehow made its way into the lake, but I am hesitant to say what it could be without seeing any photo. Who knows, maybe it’s just a hoax? Photo please!

By: Jason Vac

Jason Vac — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:20:07 +0000

Unless i missed it, no size estimations have been given aside from “large”. That annoys me a bit. How “large” is a large snake usually?