Tahoe Tessie: The Serpent of America’s Second-Deepest Lake
About 6 min readFor a hundred and sixty years, witnesses have reported a serpent in Lake Tahoe, America’s second-deepest lake — from an 1865 account of a creature with a fourteen-foot-wide head and a body over six hundred feet long to 2005 sightings of humps and V-shaped waves — yet no photograph, sonar contact or specimen has ever verified her, and a 2022 clean-up of the lakebed found nothing at all.