Lake Windermere Monster Sighting

Interesting from About Paranormal by s.Wagner.
"Lake Windermere Monster
Tom Pickles
This picture was taken by 24-year-old Tom Pickles on Lake Windermere in England on February 11, 2011 while on a work-sponsored kayaking trip. He and his friend Sarah Harrington both saw the creature as it swam by, and Pickles snapped the photo with his cell phone. They watched it for about 20 seconds and noted that what they saw was about as big as three car lengths. Until he realized its size, he thought it was a dog swimming by, "then saw it was much bigger and moving really quickly at about 10 mph," Pickles told reporters. "Each hump was moving in a rippling motion and it was swimming fast. Its skin was like a seal's but its shape was completely abnormal; it's not like any animal I've ever seen before."

The creature has been seen in Lake Windermere about seven times before, and it has been given the nickname Bownessie and is sometimes referred to as "England's Loch Ness Monster." The Loch Ness Monster is said to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.

Pickles photo and description match a sighting made by journalist Steve Burnip in 2006 near the shores of Wray Castle on the lake.

Kansas Legend Of " Sinkhole Sam"

Could be America's answer to "Nessie."

Steve Gilliland
Posted Jun 11, 2010 @ 08:44 PM

"Once upon a time near a town known as Inman, in the land of Kansas, a legend was born — a legend that 50 years ago would bring this sleepy little town notoriety for a time. The legend became that of Sink Hole Sam.

Believe it or not, prior to the 1920s, a string of small freshwater lakes stretched across part of central Kansas, coming within a couple miles of the town of Inman. It is reported people from around the state actually came here to fish in those lakes.

Eventually the lakes were drained, leaving Lake Inman, and a few low pockets of water now known as “sinkholes.” Inman Lake remains as the largest natural lake in the state. The largest of the sinkholes took the astonishing name “the big sinkhole.”

Here a legend was born in the form of a large serpent-like creature became Sink Hole Sam. People speculated that Sam had been living in some prehistoric underground cavern that had somehow filled with water from the sinkhole, allowing him to finally venture forth. Evidently no one got close enough to see if the creature should be named Sam or Samantha, but I’ll stay true to the legend and use “him.”

Two Two unidentified Inman men fishing at the sinkhole first reported seeing Sam. Soon after, Inmanites Albert Neufeld and George Regehr also spotted him. Albert sought to save the town by taking pot shots at poor Sam from a nearby bridge (I suspect the bridge was not really all that nearby!) Of course descriptions of the beast varied according to the audience and the time of day, but Sam ended up being a very large snake-like creature, about 15 feet long and the diameter of an automobile tire."

Full post at:
http://www.thekansan.com/sports/x1980742588/The-Legend-of-Sink-Hole-Sam

Is There A "Dog Man"?

It is said that in Wisconsin in the past 7 years there have been over 100 recorded sightings of one or more large hairy creatures that have been reported in the area for over 100 years.Originally they were thought to be werewolves but it was later changed to be called "Dog Men". The variety of persons seeing and reporting the creature run the gamut from children,elderly,white collar and blue collar workers.
It is described as from 6 to 8 feet tall,covered in black hair,walks upright and has red eyes.
One family saw three such creatures drinking from a creek using their hands as a human would.The creatures started toward them and they rushed to their truck and left as soo as possible.
One hunter has seen a single such creature along certain game tracks five times.
By the way,it has feet that look like humans.They also can jump fairly high on two feet.The creature also unlike reports of others often makes eye contact directly with the observer.
Five of the people reporting had polygraph tests that showed they were honest about their sightings.

What do you think?How is this different from Big Foot. I wonder....