Bessie (lake monster)

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Bessie

Creature

Name:	Bessie
Classification
Grouping:	Local legend
Sub Grouping:	lake monster
Data
First Reported:	1817

Country:	United States
Region:	Lake Erie
Habitat:	Water
Status:	Local Legend

Bessie is a name given to a lake monster in Lake Erie by the locals. It has been spotted since 1817, but many sightings have occured in the past thirty years. Bessie is reported to be snake-like and 9-12 meters (30-40 ft) long, with a grayish color. The creature was blamed for an attack in 1992 that killed three people. The survivors of the attack say the creature's head is as large as a car. There is a reward for humane capture of a living Bessie, and sightings of the creature still occur.

The existence of Bessie (as most creatures in cryptozoology) has been rejected as a possibility by the majority of mainstream scientists.

A tribute of sorts to Bessie is Lemmy (Lake Erie Monster), a wood and plastic sculpture of a serpentine creature placed in the Huron River just north of Ohio Route 2 near Huron from around 1994 until 2004, and then from 2005.^[1]^[2]