Bessie, the Lake Erie Monster: Two Centuries of Serpents in the Inland Sea

A sailboat at sunrise on Lake Erie, seen from Sandusky, Ohio, with a motorboat and a distant light on the horizon — the waters where Bessie is said to swim

About 4 min readFor more than two hundred years, sailors and fishermen on Lake Erie have reported a long, dark, serpentine creature, thirty to forty feet long, sliding through the water off Sandusky Bay. No body, photograph, or DNA sample has ever confirmed it — and the reports have never stopped.

The Lake Tianchi Monster: The Creature in China’s Heaven Lake

An aerial view of Heaven Lake (Lake Tianchi) in the crater of Changbai Mountain

About 4 min readHigh in the Changbai Mountains on the border of China and North Korea, a cold volcanic crater lake has produced reports of a large creature for more than a century — including a 1962 sighting by more than a hundred people and a 2007 video of six seal-like shapes. Scientists remain sceptical, and the lake keeps its secret.