How to Spot the Lake Erie Serpent
Karen J. Weyant
Forget what you know about Nessie or Champ.
Bessie is different, more camera shy, more prone to duck underneath Lake Erie’s frothy waves. A mutation of a farmer’s missing cows, she wrestles with water, her long snake of a body tangling with lake algae and swells. Witnesses have often only glimpsed humps or her dog-like head bobbing on the surface. Sometimes, she is green, other times, black. But if you really want to find her, the best chance of a sighting is at dusk or at dawn. Walk along the shore, brush aside gull feathers, kick charred campfire wood and cigarette butts out of your way. Shield your eyes when you look for white foam or dark mounds shaped like half-emerged tires. Search for shiny scales shed on the beach, ones that turn to stone, when you pick them up to cradle in your hands. |