Horse-Eel is new to me. Found a related Fortean blog article on it:
Of giant eels
Here's a longer piece from a Cryptozoology blog: Cressie and Chessie Part II, Giant Eels in Scotland and Ireland
Of giant eels
Quote: Holiday: Did you hear this from your father?
Connelly: From me mother. I used to hear me father talk about it, too, but her in particular always used to talk about it.
Holiday: “Did they ever describe what it looked like?
Connelly: Only just an oversized eel, like, caught in the gully. It couldn’t wriggle itself through. They didn’t bother going near it and it stayed and it just melted away.
Holiday: No bones? They never found any bones?
Connelly: There could be but they just didn’t take much remark of it. Only just that when we were small they’d always keep us away from that lake in particular.
Concluded Holiday: “Further questioning suggested that the creature damaged the culvert during its struggles and this had to be rebuilt. The carcass was so loathsome that no-one would remove it.”
[Source: FW Holiday, The Dragon and the Disc (London: Futura, 1974) pp.52-4]
Here's a longer piece from a Cryptozoology blog: Cressie and Chessie Part II, Giant Eels in Scotland and Ireland
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