(01-22-2025, 01:57 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I've always been a proponent of the giant eel theory for Nessy and her relatives. I even put a thread up on ATS with a theory on how this was possible.
Quote:Fosters Island Rule Applied to Lake Monsters
Crypozoology is a favorite subject of mine and anything on this topic will get my attention. Of special personal interest are lake monsters, particularly those of the sea serpent variety. These are of the type like the famous Loch Ness monster and the water horses of Europe with their New World cousins like Champ or Ogopogo. Based on descriptions, locations, and other information, I propose that these lake monsters are unusually large specimens of a known species caused by “insular gigantism” AKA the “Foster’s Island Rule.”
Perhaps I should put that thread up here now. It was the old Michigan Swamp Buck profile, the original on ATS.
Given your location, you my already know about the local North American variants that the Indians in that area said lived in the Great Lakes - the"Giant Horse-Headed Serpents", the "Giant horned Serpents", and the "Underwater Panthers", all of which are apparently variants of one another.
The "Giant Horned Serpents" in particular appear to go back to at least the Mound Builder days, since they are frequently depicted on Mound Builder shell gorgets and the like.
I myself saw "something" big and dark moving in Lake Erie back in the 1970's, but can't really say what it was. Might have just been a really big fish, like a sturgeon or something like that.
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