Sylvia Lake Monster
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 17th, 2009
Gouverneur Tribune-Press
Gouverneur, New York
June 18, 1941
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25 YEARS AGO
For the second time in nine years Sylvia Lake’s sea serpent has been seen, according to some visitors at the lake Sunday [presumably June 11 or 18, 1916]. They maintain that they saw the serpent while on the lake Sunday morning, according to a report brought here by George Delaney and other members of the Gouverneur-Edwards road force.
According to their description, the sea serpent is about nine feet long, has a head as big as a man’s and a long spiny tail. The spectators think they saw six legs when the serpent dived into the water. It has ears like a mule and dark brown eyes with light brown hair covering its face and red whiskers falling from the lower jaw.
Thanks to Jerome Clark for this archival report.
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My first thought is…what has six legs in the animal world excluding insects…could it be that there were four and then moss or something on it to make someone think it had six legs…that’s a little odd…and with a long spiny tail, well that isn’t really the standard detail for pinnipeds–another oddity…I mean aside from the mule ears…
Sounds to me like a garbled description of a moose eating Potamogeton.