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Lake Utopia, New Brunswick, Canada
Canada's Lake Creature
The Lake Utopia Monster
Native american legends speak of a vicious serpent with a huge mouth and teeth that inhabits Lake Utopia in New Brunswick, Canada. The serpent has been known to break holes through the surface of the frozen lake and snap at people through them. There have been numerous sightings over the last 100 years. In 1982 the creature was observed by Sherman Hart, who saw the creature surface the water and then submerge again.
THE LAKE UTOPIA MONSTER -Sightings go back to the early 1800's where this monster seems to show up just after the winter ice breaks up on Lake Utopia, New Brunswick.
The following is sighting where in the general area. I tried to find the exact location of the encounter and this is the best I could do with the information provided.
Cache is a medium sized container with traders, logbook, pencil and sharpener.
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Lake Utopia monster sightings
While leading Lake Utopia Monster researcher Norma Stewart said most sightings are kept quiet, there have been several documented reports over the last century and a half.
1867 - Sawmill workers on the north shore of the lake say they saw something 30 feet (nine metres) long and 10 feet (three metres) wide thrashing in the lake. Similar reports are made in the following days.
1868 - A Saint Croix Courier reporter said he and other witnesses saw the monster.
1872 - A Dominion Gazette article on the monster said "dwellers of the lake, without exception, believe that a huge fish or serpent has a home in Utopia" and they've seen it basking like a pine log on the surface of the water.
1872 - Natives describe a fearful monster with a large head following their canoes, snapping its bloody jaws.
1872 - The Canadian Illustrated News reports on a hunting party setting out to catch the monster. They didn't.
1891 - William Francis Ganong, the famous naturalist, records in his notebook a description of the monster provided by a lumberman who said he saw it 20 years prior. "It was dark red in colour, the part showing above the water was 20 feet long (about) and as big around as a small hogshead; it was much like a large eel."
1969 - The Saint John Evening Times Globe reports on an interview with Mrs. Fred McKillop, of St. George, who said she saw a huge creature 18 years earlier. "It looked like a huge black rock . . . It moved up and down the lake, boiling and churning the water, making great waves," she's quoted as saying.
1982 - Sherman Hatt says he and family members saw a large creature that looked like a submarine with spray coming from both sides and a hump out of the water about 10 feet long.
"It was huge-huge," he said. "Maybe there is an explanation but I cannot understand what it was."
1996 - There are wide-spread reports about Roger and Lois Wilcox who were canoeing on the lake when they saw ripples break the mirror-like surface 100 metres from them. It was heading toward Cannonball Island - a common monster sighting spot, said Stewart. Wilcox, a retired military airman from St. George, describes it as 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 metres) long, undulating upward, not sideways. He said he saw a hump come five feet out of the water. He questioned if it was a porpoise, eel or otter but, simply put, said, "I just don't know what it was."
If you don't want to believe it, don't believe it.
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