The Lake Champlain sea serpent has again made its appearance, this time near Cedar Beach, a resort twelve miles south of Burlington[.] Mrs. Wm. E. Hagar and a party of friends being in camp there Wednesday morning last [July 18], when the lake was unusually calm, Mrs. Hagar noticed about half a mile distant a peculiar disturbance upon the otherwise smooth surface of the lake. Sure enough a “white cap” had appeared as though a strong wind might be blowing in that spot alone. Her son, Clifford, and Everett Towne were close at hand and both were called to the cottage and there witnessed what they hope but never expect to see again, the Lake Champlain sea serpent. By this time, the animal’s head, which, as described by all four, was more resembling an animal than a serpent, had appeared above the surface and in advance of the troubled waters. The movement was toward the south and the thing was in view for a full five minutes after the young people joined Mrs. Hagar. After moving rapidly for several hundred feet it disappeared beneath the surface of the water, which again became calm. Mrs. Hagar and the young people all agreed in the description of the strange visitor, and aver that the head was several feet out of the water and no approximate size of the monster can be given even by comparison. This circumstance has revived the old, old tales of some curious monster inhabiting the deep waters of Lake Champlain, only this time with more of the color of substantiation, and comes from a source that is reliable and by no means desirous of notoriety.Malone [New York] Farmer, July 25, 1900

Thanks to Jerome Clark.

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