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Fake Monsters In The
Lakes By James Donahue A recent news story about
a Saline, I stumbled on the story
when I was a young man working on the Kalamazoo Gazette, in I don’t recall his
name name or all of the details so my story will be vague. As the story went, an elderly gentleman who had lived all
of his life on one of the four or five lakes in He said he built his
monster, which was a head and long neck supported on some type of floatation device, and a well-engineered system of ropes
and pulleys that could all be operated from the lakeside porch of his home. The man said he would
go out at night during the summer months and set up his device, then wait for some unsuspecting fisherman or boater to show
up in the area the following day. When they got near, but
not too close so they could see that it was a fake, he said he would make the head and neck of his “monster” rise
slowly out of the lake. Once he was sure it was noticed, he said he would make it settle slowly back into the water. Naturally the news spread.
The story of the Portage Lake Monster was told in the area for years. Many people liked to embellish their “eyewitness”
account of their sighting when talking to reporters. Some even thought they saw glowing red eyes and a hump or two rising
with it from the lake. The sightings occurred
every summer for quite a few years until the man started tiring of his game. Finally he let everybody in on his prank, getting
the whole affair exposed once and for all. It was obvious he enjoyed boasting about the way he tricked the people of the area
almost as much as he did playing his prank. The Saline monster won’t
be as frightening or as sensational because everybody in town knows about it. Builder Jim Peters, a festival volunteer, said
he made his device because he thought a festival about His wood and steel monster
is 24 feet long when floating under water, and rises six feet high when raised. Unlike the As for the real Loch
Ness monster, that has been sighted for so many years, it wouldn’t be possible for a single prankster to live long enough
to pull off a hoax like that. The people that have seen it are sure it is real. To this day, however,
nobody has ever proved it exists or doesn't. |
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