Here’s an April report of a monster being caught under ice:

The St. Albans [Vermont] Messenger reports a story coming from Shelburne, Vt. A resident of the latter place while out on the ice in the vicinity of the Four Brothers, and near the New York side of the lake, found the remains of a monster creature frozen in the ice. The account says:

“With the aid of his companion, he scraped away the crust from the surface of the ice for a distance of 20 feet and revealed a portion of the remains of what he thought must be a gigantic sea-serpent which had become frozen into the ice near the surface and which stretched away no one knows how much farther than he had uncovered.

“Steps will be taken at once to cut out this ice and thus preserve the only specimen of this marine [sic]
monster which science has heretofore had an opportunity of examining.”Plattsburgh [New York] Sentinel, April 5, 1895

There was, unfortunately, no followup to this report.

Read the “Champ” after you buy the 2007 edition of Mysterious America on April 24th and beyond! Thank you.

Thanks to Jerome Clark.