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 is also called "South Bay Bessie". It has been spotted since 1817, but many sightings have occurred 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.^{[citation needed]} 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 probability 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]

The minor-league hockey team Lake Erie Monsters was named for Bessie.