I enjoy reading stories about new sightings of Lake Monsters as much as the next guy, but what is up with retreading stories from the 1800s, so often? There’s been another local Utah article written about the Bear Lake Monsters. It revisits the same old stories that you perhaps have read before. What I find surprising is they hardly ever talk about the Utah Lake Monster sightings that are known from the 21st century, as documented elsewhere and mentioned by, for example, Karl Rose.

There is no disputing that evidence for the Bear Lake Monsters was established by early leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 19th century. It is compelling and interesting. Likewise, it is obvious the newspapers there seem to love repeating these stories, over and over again.

The Utah incidents have been recycled so many times, I’ve written several blogs about this media phenomena, even one asking the obvious question:

Why Bear Lake Again?
April 30, 2006

Here are two others I’ve written this year:

Meandrous Monster Migrates to Utah Lake
May 7, 2006

and

Great Bear Lake Monster
January 30, 2006.

If you don’t know about the case, certainly, read up on it. At least once.