Bigfoot & Dogman, Make Room for Pressie: the Lake Superior Beast
Michigan is no stranger to monsters. We have a number of rumored creatures permeating our state: some famous like Dogman and Bigfoot, others with various names that hang out in fields, inland lakes, and woods.....and a good number in the Great Lakes.
Is the underwater creature reportedly in Lake Superior some kind of giant serpent or dinosaur throwback? Or is it just a giant fish? Lake Superior's current monster resident has been named "Pressie" and is believed to be a monster serpent.
Pressie got her name from sightings that occurred near the Presque Isle River. These sightings have not been made up as recently as the last 100 years; evidently, some centuries ago, early residents claimed to have witnessed this serpent-creature and dubbed it Mishipishu. The creature is said to have a serpent's body, a horse-type head, the tail of a whale, long neck, blackish-green and 75 feet long.
Reports of Pressie that have been officially recorded since 1894 include:
It’s multi-humped back sticks 6 to 8 feet above water, it has a 15 foot neck and a foot-wide jaw.....and it chases ships.
A man fell overboard and was grabbed & constricted, like a snake.
It can swim around 9 miles an hour.
During the 1990s, witnesses at Point Iroquois claim to have seen a buck deer being pulled into the water by some large underwater beast, which only left the buck's head on shore.
There are a number of things that have been speculated: a giant water snake, barracuda, freshwater octopus or squid, dinosaur throwback, sturgeon, pike, giant eel or lamprey, etc.
Or is the whole thing bogus? Let's face it, Lake Superior is MASSIVE and the existence of some unknown underwater creature is extremely possible. But until someone can take a decent, focused picture or video of this creature, we'll have to just sit and wait it out.