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Silver Lake was the focus of a legend surrounding a sea serpent that was reportedly seen in the nearby lake in the mid-19th century. According to an affidavit sworn by four men who were out fishing on July 13, 1855, [3] it was a 60-foot-long (18 m) serpent with glowing, red eyes.
The town is styled "home of the Silver Lake Sea Serpent" after a sea serpent sighting, possibly a hoax, in 1855. The serpent is celebrated by images throughout the town and previously by a summer festival. An artificial serpent was placed by Silver Lake in 2016. [4] [5] The Village of Perry joined Tree City USA in 2017. [6]
Perry Farmers' Market, founded in 2002, draws 400-600 people to downtown each Saturday morning from mid-June through September. Signature events include Perry Chalk Art Festival, Tour de Perry, Shake on the Lake, New York State Puppet Festival, Silver Serpent Triathlon and Silver Lake Sea Serpent Arts and Crafts Show.
Devil's Lake Monster Fresh Water Octopus [10] Lake Tota Boyacá Colombia: South America: Diablo Ballena (Devil Whale), Monster of Lake Tota: A huge black fish, bigger than a whale, with the head of a bull. [11] 1652– Lake Elsinore California USA: North America: Elsie, Hamlet, Lake Elsinore Monster Cross between a plesiosaur and a sea serpent ...
A South Carolina filmmaker is surprised by lake footage where a sea monster is alleged to live. ... Iroquois lived in the area and told about a large horned serpent or great snake that lived in ...
Its color is silver-gray. The 1878 translation of his journals clarifies that Chaoufaou refers to gar (or gar pike), specifically Lepisosteus osseus (the longnose gar). [3] An 1819 report in the Plattsburgh Republican, entitled "Cape Ann Serpent on Lake Champlain", reports a "Capt. Crum" sighting an enormous serpentine monster.
Oarfish that washed ashore on a Bermuda beach on 3 March 1860: the fish was 16 ft (4.9 m) long and described at the time as a sea serpent. [37] The slender oarfish, (竜宮の使い "Ryūgū-No-Tsukai"), known in Japanese folklore as the Messenger from the Sea God's Palace, is said to portend earthquakes. [27]
A mysterious sea creature that holds an amazing secret. A spy's treachery that changed the hearts of Americans during the cold war. The riddle of what caused one of the worst natural disasters in American history. Learn how desperate immigrants outwitted the very exam designed to keep them out of the US.