PARANORMAL & MONSTER LEGENDS

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Five real life encounters with dinosaurs:

Five Real Life Encounters - Unexplained Mysteries

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The first recorded sighting of Bessie in Lake Erie occurred in 1793 and have continued to re-occur fairly frequently but at random intervals ever since. Most of these sightings have occurred in the western basin of the lake close to the U.S. side.



Reported to be between 20 and 60 feet in length, Bessie is likely to be nothing other than a family of plesiosaurs.



Lake Erie would be a particularly prospective environment for plesiosaurs since as both the southernmost and shallowest Great Lake, it's particularly nutrient rich and therefore hosts an abundance of fish life. (Lake Erie in fact supports a thriving commercial perch fishery from ports such as Port Dover and Port Stanley.) There would therefore be more than enough fish life in Lake Erie to support a colony of plesiosaurs. And of course nothing would prevent individuals of the species during the summer months from ranging north up the Detroit River into Lake St. Clair and then up the St. Clair River into the enormous Lake Huron-Lake Michigan watershed.

Here's the episode of the Crypto Files dealing with Bessie:

Sadly the original links in my post have been lost. But here's an excellent article:

Meet Bessie - Linda Osborne; Great Lakes Guide

And here's a good video:

The Quest for Bessie