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June 19, 1888

Dunkirk [New York] Observer-Journal

Scared by a Lake Serpent.

ALPENA, Mich., June 19. – The residents for a long distance along Thunder Bay are terrified over the appearance of a monster lake serpent. A farmer named Isaacson recently found a trail about a foot wide through a plowed field. It led down to the bay, where there were indications of its presence. Mr. Isaacson’s boy, Grant, was planting potatoes in a field near the house, and was frightened to see a huge snake moving toward him. The boy had with him a double-barreled shot-gun, and fired twice at the monster, when it went over the ground as lively as a horse, and glided into the bay. The boy’s father, attracted by the gun reports, followed the snake’s track to the water. The boy described the snake as about twenty-five feet long and over a foot thick. The body is black, with yellow spots and a yellow tail. The head was covered with long black hair.