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Some have reported fatal deaths - 727Sky - 07-14-2025
I never heard of a death that was not fatal so I will post this anyway !
Quote:July 1942. Two pilots, Babe Alyesworth and Bill Hammersley are flying over Alaska’s remote Lake Iliamna in a routine flight. Everything’s going smoothly, so they decide to just look out the window and enjoy the sights. That’s when they saw something horrifying just lurking beneath the water. It was a massive aluminum-colored creature swimming below the surface. Its elongated body and fish-like tail were unlike anything they had ever seen. Years later, sightings of the creature began piling up. Fishermen claimed their lines were being ripped apart by an unseen force that could even bend metal hooks. Flocks of swans and other wildlife started mysteriously disappearing, and pilots reported shadowy, log-like shapes moving through the water. Some witnesses described the creature as a monster. Others believed it to be an undiscovered beast, swimming in the cold, unfamiliar depths of the lake, whatever it is, one thing is certain, there is something in the water and it’s bigger than Jaws This is the bizarre true story of the Iliamna Lake Monster, one of the most mysterious legends in the wild waters of North America.
RE: Some have reported fatal deaths - Bally002 - 07-14-2025
(07-14-2025, 08:49 AM)727Sky Wrote: I never heard of a death that was not fatal so I will post this anyway !
Quote:July 1942. Two pilots, Babe Alyesworth and Bill Hammersley are flying over Alaska’s remote Lake Iliamna in a routine flight. Everything’s going smoothly, so they decide to just look out the window and enjoy the sights. That’s when they saw something horrifying just lurking beneath the water. It was a massive aluminum-colored creature swimming below the surface. Its elongated body and fish-like tail were unlike anything they had ever seen. Years later, sightings of the creature began piling up. Fishermen claimed their lines were being ripped apart by an unseen force that could even bend metal hooks. Flocks of swans and other wildlife started mysteriously disappearing, and pilots reported shadowy, log-like shapes moving through the water. Some witnesses described the creature as a monster. Others believed it to be an undiscovered beast, swimming in the cold, unfamiliar depths of the lake, whatever it is, one thing is certain, there is something in the water and it’s bigger than Jaws This is the bizarre true story of the Iliamna Lake Monster, one of the most mysterious legends in the wild waters of North America.
Watched it. Methinks. A large Sturgeon or perhaps even a sleeper shark. They occasionally surface. I thought of these even before the narrator mentioned them.
Cheers and kind regards,
Bally.
RE: Some have reported fatal deaths - FCD - 07-14-2025
Could also be an Oarfish too. Those are native to the Pacific and pretty common off the CA and OR coast ('common', as in seen before, but not seen every day). Maybe a bird of prey picked one up when it was just a juvenile and dropped it in the lake by accident. They actually show an Oarfish in their animation early in the video.
When Oarfish get old they lurk just below the surface (usually shortly before they croak). They're also slow swimmers in general which is consistent with the description.
But the picture they show in the thumnail is way bigger than any fish, shark or whale. Just look at it in comparison to the size of the trees. That may just have been clickbait though, because I don't see that same picture in the video.
RE: Some have reported fatal deaths - Ninurta - 07-15-2025
I really hate it when death is fatal. That's like the worst kind of death - no do-overs and no re-spawns. It's almost like having to live and die in the real world!
My money is on some kind of sturgeon. The video doesn't specify whether it is a saltwater lake or freshwater, but there are sturgeons who live in both, as well as saltwater sturgeons that spawn on brackish waters.
The hold back is that it would be a REALLY big sturgeon. The largest sturgeon on record was a beluga sturgeon clocking in at just over 23 feet long. 30 feet is a bit of a stretch, even for that, but some white sturgeons from the Pacific do get up to 20 feet or so, so who knows? maybe even a new, unrecognized as yet species of sturgeon.
Back in early colonial days, Atlantic sturgeon used to come up into the Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the James River (called "Powhatan Flu" at the time), about twice a year. John Smith is recorded as having fished for them (and sturgeon scutes have been found archaeologically at Jamestowne) to feed the Jamestowne colony, and as I recall some of those were reported at about 20 feet or so, but nowadays Atlantic sturgeon max out at about 12 feet.
So, it could be an as yet unrecognized new species of sturgeon, or it could be what sturgeon get to there when left unmolested for a lifetime.
Man! You could eat for a few days on a 30 foot fish! As an added bonus, sturgeon have a cartilaginous skeletal structure, so no tiny bones to worry over choking on! On the downside, I'd hate to try to haul one of those in, either on a hook and line or even with a net. I'd probably have to harpoon it like a whale, and hope it didn't capsize my boat while towing it in to the beach.
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RE: Some have reported fatal deaths - Michigan Swamp Buck - 07-15-2025
Another lake monster. Fits in with my Foster's Island Rule theory about lake monsters regarding a number of factors. The fish-like shape reported indicates gigantism in a known variety of fish, even if it is an undiscovered subspecies.
Foster's Island Rule Applied to Lake Monsters