Post by Cryptosaurian on Jun 21, 2018 15:11:08 GMT -5
Hi guys, I was on the net yesterday looking to see if there were any new sightings of California's aquatic cryptids---turns out, there was a bunch of them and I'll post them here. The source website is this: www.weirdca.com/index.php?type=18
From Lake Tahoe we have these following reports (from Tahoe Tessie's comment section):
Joe of Upland, CA on 2018-06-09 said:
It’s real and I’ve seen it. All I’m going to say.
Christine Trice of Sacramento, CA on 2016-09-13 said:
I've been trying to find similar stories & sightings for Pyramid Lake as my husband & I had a very close encounter back 1995. We were jet skiing pretty far out into the middle of the lake. It was very windy, so windy in fact that a couple small fishing boats capsized. As jet skiers we loved the larger wakes. My husband's ski had taken in some water & stalled out. We floated for a few mins probably about 10 or 12 feet or so apart from each other. All of the sudden a creature surfaced in between us! It was very dark greenish/brown, like the color of kelp or even of the water itself. It was scaled like a reptiel & the scales were large, probably the size of my hand or larger. We never saw a head or a tail. It was SO surreal & terrifying. It seemed to happen in slow motion. The body surfaced in an arc & continued to just go & go. It was probably a good 3 feet above the water yet the underbelly never surfaced so not sure what the girth was. It nearly touched both of our skis from either of its sides. When it first started to surface it created a large wave that made us swoosh out even further from each other, but I swear I could have reached out to touch it! My husband tried frantically & was finally able to get his ski started. We both stood up on our skiis & head back to shore without looking back. When we took off, the creature was still in motion. When we reached the shore we told our friends what we saw. They were Reno natives & said that was probably Tahoe Tessie. The worker in the Native American center at the lake said he'd never heard anything about a large lake creature. I swear I'm not making this up!
Tony of Placerville, Ca on 2015-08-22 said:
We saw a large black something coming back from Carson City in Oct or Nov of 2010 ,There were two large shiny black twisting? Body parts sticking out of the water,it's head,tail and middle were below the surface,the parts we could see was 15-20' long each, we were on 50 just came out of cave rock,we pulled down into the parking area and really you couldn't see it (very well) down low,there were only a couple of cars in the lot,it was clear as day,the lake was like glass,not a boater or swimmer in sight,just seemed to be sitting there or possibly moving sideways slowly out into the middle of the lake,had a scrappy flip phone back then and I couldn't see it in the image window, very strange,very cool, don't know what it was,I know it wasn't a fish,watercraft or swimmer, my wife who doesn't believe in any of that kind of stuff is the one who spotted it first..that's our story.. thanks
--bchorng of Fremont, California on 2015-04-21 said:
July 24, 1991 my family were at the vista point of Emerald Bay when we heard other people shouting and pointing. I turned my head toward the direction and saw a huge "black body" flipping over the surface, moving below the waterline for a few seconds, then diving down. I can see the lighter gray color of the belly. My mother-in-law was at a higher position and clearly saw a giant giraffe like animal sticking its head above the water for a very short moment. We went to ask the other folks (tourists from Germany) and they said the same thing. It sounds ridiculous but that's what we all saw. I don't care what that is. There is a huge animal living there!
--Tony of Los Angeles, CA on 2014-07-14 said:
You think Tahoe Tessie is fake your wrong I saw her when I was on my jet ski something hit it and I fell off I looked under water and found that there was an liopurerodon(what Tahoe Tessie is)she was black and 80ft and swam like a fish it was the scariest time of my life
--Deborah of Clovis, California on 2012-08-05 said:
I saw her on Aug. 3rd 2012 I call her Tessie the Gintle Giant of lake Tahoe.(She is NOT a monster) My husband and I were on the sail boat sunset cruise, as the sun was going down, I looked and saw a very tall object with a long face long neck reaching above the water, long like a very big python, with two humps behind it, as I was looking it was not looking at us but she knew we were thier. I felt so much peace from her, it was so weird I knew that it was a she and she would not harm anyone or anything. I was the only one that saw her, that I know of, I didn't hear anyone say anything and I had never heard of Tahoe Tessie befor. The next day i was wathing tv on what to do on the lake and thier was a girl asking people if they new or heard of Tahoe Tessie and at the end of the interviews a person described her and I knew she was not my imaginatin or my eyes playing tricks on me. Then I started asking around about her, I could not wait to get home so that I could go on line to see what other people saw and how they described her. As soon as I got back to our room the next day I told my husband about what happend and drew a picture of what I saw. I know she is real, and I know what I saw, I also see that she is running out of places of where she can go to be at peace and quiet in the summertime. She gives us our space we should give her, her own space also.
--terry of glenbrook, nv on 2012-08-03 said:
I live right next to cave rock and go kayaking right here quite often. I don't know what I saw but my boyfriend an I were in a cove a couple hundred yards out from the shore right around the corner from cave rock. I was looking towards the shore and saw a wake headed towards us. At first I tried to rationalize it away thinking it was just a wave created by a breeze coming off the mountain top. It was a little breezy but nothing significant. My theory soon changed as it stayed in formation and continued towards us. I did have an underwater camera with us but was not about to stick my hands under water after seeing this. It continued on and swam directly in front of us out towards the middle of the lake. I may have been able to see it had it been close enough to the surface since the water is so clear but the two of us were frozen in fear and it was not right on the surface. In order for something to make that large of a wake and be at least a foot under the water it had to be something pretty sizable. The wake also did not come to a point in the front. Honestly I know I can't just assume it was Tessie but you can make up your own mind as to what it could have been.
--hans of carson, Nevad on 2011-11-19 said:
I was diving off cave rock with my good friend Mike Nelson. We were both using A semi closed rebreather system...hence no bubbles. The dive was uneventful for the most part. we had been down for about twenty to twenty five minutes..the visiblity was good... and the surface was clear with no other divers or boats in the immediate area. I was moitioning to Mike that we should go over to my left.. when I saw something that I have never seen before. My first impression was that it was a rather long log/ pole the circumference was and this is just an estimate was about 6 to 7 ft about 2 and half feet through coming towards us. I mointioned to my partner to turn the around pronto as his back was to him/it in very short order( blink of an eye) I could see it was an animate object...I would say first contact sighting was at 100 to 130 feet away. It was closing fast...I had two underwater flares with me which I don't normally carry, I struck one and it reacted immediately by going straight down and under us.I would put the length at easily 60 to 70 ft I would say that it past under us at a depth of 50 to 60 ft. I have been diving for over 45 years...I have never seen anything like that in my life. I would like to tell you that I was not affected by it but that would be untrue. My heart was in my throat though neither of us did not panic ,I can tell you the adrealin was flowing. We slowly and guardly left the area and curtailed our dive for that day. I can tell you this we both had a couple of adult beverages after the dive. what it was I cannot defintely say, but I can tell you it was alive...it was moving underwater at a high rate of speed and it's my guess that it definetly attined it's size on something more then marine plant life.
--Jim of Truckee, CA on 2011-11-11 said:
We took our boat out of the Coast Guard dock at Lake Forest on an Easter Sunday around 1990. Flat, calm, clear, no other boats in sight. Off the Old Chart House, a wave began to really rock the boat. The wave was a vee, at the origin I thought I saw two dogs swimming. We turned towards them. As we approached, the two objects, black and shiny, rose to about three feet high, about the diameter of a telephone pole. They were moving away, and each looked like a single water skier trying to make a deep water start, with water spraying up and to the sides. They then abruptly submerged. We criss-crossed the area, but saw nothing further. Whatever it was, it was not the wind nor our imaginations.
--Dan Pursley of Napa, CA on 2011-04-21 said:
In the summer of 1982, my Wife and I had stopped are 22-foot boat to sun ourselves in Lake Tahoe, CA. We were about 400 yards from the shore near Emerald Bay, My wife climbed out to the bow of the boat and held on by holding the windshield behind her. I laid out across the seats. The water was very still and smooth as glass. About five minutes or so later, the boat began rocking as if it was being hit by a boat's wake speeding by. I sat up but saw nothing around that could have caused this disturbance. As I looked at the water around are boat, there were large air bubbles surfacing. I felt this was rather odd as I am an experienced scuba diver and they didn't appear to be bubbles coming from a diver's scuba equipment. Then in the water five feet away from the back end of the boat, I spotted the largest fish tail I ever saw. It was slowly submerging in the water. The whole scene was like a slow motion movie. I jumped up and told my wife to get back in the boat, as we had to leave. She asked, "What happened to you? You look whiter than a ghost." I didn't tell my wife what I saw until we got back to shore, nor did I tell anyone else except a few close family members. In the years that passed, I began looking through every book I could find that had pictures of fish tails. I found nothing that resembled what I saw.. Then I began looking through dinosaur books with no luck. Finally, I heard about a catfish society in Nevada that published articles about experiences other people had with unusual fish. I learned that long ago when Indians lived in the area, they would talk about a great fish. Many people believed it was a large Sturgeon. What I saw, however, was no sturgeon. In fact in my opinion, what I saw was nothing like anything that ever existed before. It was longer across then the entire back of my boat. It was 10 to 13 feet across with smooth dark green skin and as the tail submerged in the water, it flipped towards the boat opposite to the way a whale's tail flips. To this day, I cannot understand how something so large could swim so close without hitting my boat and outboard moter. I remained quiet about this incident until now for two reasons: one, it was not worth hearing the skepticism, ridicule and disbelief of others; but most important, the grate fish, which I called Jupana, did not harm me. why should I chance harming him by revealing his whereabouts? I have a drawing of the Tail...
--Melissa of South Lake Tahoe, California on 2011-03-24 said:
A couple years ago I went to the beach and I was on my way back to the car, but I forgot my flip flops and the sun going down when i realized there was a dark shadow and I looked up and there was A LOT of bumps! Then I thought to myself to grab my PHONE and snap a photo! I took a blurry image, but you can clearly see that there is a lot of humps and a dinosour like head. I always wondered what i saw that day and I always go back to Cave Rock every year in hopes of catching Tessie AGAIN!!!
Onto other lake cryptids in Cali!
--bill ware of henderson, nv on 2016-07-05 said:
while living in Riverside, Ca in 1970-71 our neighbor took my wife and children boating at lake elsinore. while my wife was water skiing I observed something following her in the water just below the surface. She took a tumble and while in the water she felt a claw like hand grab her. It even left some red marks on her arm. On another visit to the lake we took a young 17 year old girl with us and while she was swimming near the shore something clawed at her leg and she became hysterical so much so that we had to carry her out of the water as she appeared to be in shock. whatever grabbed her left a claw mark on her leg. when we left for the day, the ranger at the gate stated the lake had rumors of some sort of underwater creature. we never returned to thins lake..........
--Sam Daniels of Redding, Ca on 2015-09-11 said:
It has been many years since my sighting of the Elsinore monster, at the time I was only 14 years old. My family has fished in that lake for years. One year the winter was a wet one ,heavy flooding had washed into the lake and it raised a lot. When spring hit we all went fishing at the lake. I didn't feel like fishing right off I wanted to explore around a bit. We went the a marina at the far west end of the lake and there was a very large area of reeds surrounding it. I was standing at the waters edge looking into the cove that was surrounded by a vast amount of these reeds. As I stood at the waters edge I could see a very large swirl on top of the water. Suddenly it came my way ,thinking it was one of the big fish I was startled to see it was what looked like a very large lizard coming at me. Oh I was scared but yet amazed at what I seen. It swam back a forth in front of me no more than 20 feet from me there was no humps on the back humps to the back0 feet from me. It had very huge round black eyes. Its skin was a very dark green with black spots on it. I couldn't see any teeth. Made no sound at all. Suddently it dove ,when it came up it had a very large carp in its mouth, that's how I noticed the teeth more like what a lizard would have. When it swallowed the carp it dove again and it never came back. I never told anyone about it because they wouldn't belive me anyway. I did tell a few people years later.
For you guys, espcially@westerncanadian, your welcome! Your thoughts guys?
From Lake Tahoe we have these following reports (from Tahoe Tessie's comment section):
Joe of Upland, CA on 2018-06-09 said:
It’s real and I’ve seen it. All I’m going to say.
Christine Trice of Sacramento, CA on 2016-09-13 said:
I've been trying to find similar stories & sightings for Pyramid Lake as my husband & I had a very close encounter back 1995. We were jet skiing pretty far out into the middle of the lake. It was very windy, so windy in fact that a couple small fishing boats capsized. As jet skiers we loved the larger wakes. My husband's ski had taken in some water & stalled out. We floated for a few mins probably about 10 or 12 feet or so apart from each other. All of the sudden a creature surfaced in between us! It was very dark greenish/brown, like the color of kelp or even of the water itself. It was scaled like a reptiel & the scales were large, probably the size of my hand or larger. We never saw a head or a tail. It was SO surreal & terrifying. It seemed to happen in slow motion. The body surfaced in an arc & continued to just go & go. It was probably a good 3 feet above the water yet the underbelly never surfaced so not sure what the girth was. It nearly touched both of our skis from either of its sides. When it first started to surface it created a large wave that made us swoosh out even further from each other, but I swear I could have reached out to touch it! My husband tried frantically & was finally able to get his ski started. We both stood up on our skiis & head back to shore without looking back. When we took off, the creature was still in motion. When we reached the shore we told our friends what we saw. They were Reno natives & said that was probably Tahoe Tessie. The worker in the Native American center at the lake said he'd never heard anything about a large lake creature. I swear I'm not making this up!
Tony of Placerville, Ca on 2015-08-22 said:
We saw a large black something coming back from Carson City in Oct or Nov of 2010 ,There were two large shiny black twisting? Body parts sticking out of the water,it's head,tail and middle were below the surface,the parts we could see was 15-20' long each, we were on 50 just came out of cave rock,we pulled down into the parking area and really you couldn't see it (very well) down low,there were only a couple of cars in the lot,it was clear as day,the lake was like glass,not a boater or swimmer in sight,just seemed to be sitting there or possibly moving sideways slowly out into the middle of the lake,had a scrappy flip phone back then and I couldn't see it in the image window, very strange,very cool, don't know what it was,I know it wasn't a fish,watercraft or swimmer, my wife who doesn't believe in any of that kind of stuff is the one who spotted it first..that's our story.. thanks
--bchorng of Fremont, California on 2015-04-21 said:
July 24, 1991 my family were at the vista point of Emerald Bay when we heard other people shouting and pointing. I turned my head toward the direction and saw a huge "black body" flipping over the surface, moving below the waterline for a few seconds, then diving down. I can see the lighter gray color of the belly. My mother-in-law was at a higher position and clearly saw a giant giraffe like animal sticking its head above the water for a very short moment. We went to ask the other folks (tourists from Germany) and they said the same thing. It sounds ridiculous but that's what we all saw. I don't care what that is. There is a huge animal living there!
--Tony of Los Angeles, CA on 2014-07-14 said:
You think Tahoe Tessie is fake your wrong I saw her when I was on my jet ski something hit it and I fell off I looked under water and found that there was an liopurerodon(what Tahoe Tessie is)she was black and 80ft and swam like a fish it was the scariest time of my life
--Deborah of Clovis, California on 2012-08-05 said:
I saw her on Aug. 3rd 2012 I call her Tessie the Gintle Giant of lake Tahoe.(She is NOT a monster) My husband and I were on the sail boat sunset cruise, as the sun was going down, I looked and saw a very tall object with a long face long neck reaching above the water, long like a very big python, with two humps behind it, as I was looking it was not looking at us but she knew we were thier. I felt so much peace from her, it was so weird I knew that it was a she and she would not harm anyone or anything. I was the only one that saw her, that I know of, I didn't hear anyone say anything and I had never heard of Tahoe Tessie befor. The next day i was wathing tv on what to do on the lake and thier was a girl asking people if they new or heard of Tahoe Tessie and at the end of the interviews a person described her and I knew she was not my imaginatin or my eyes playing tricks on me. Then I started asking around about her, I could not wait to get home so that I could go on line to see what other people saw and how they described her. As soon as I got back to our room the next day I told my husband about what happend and drew a picture of what I saw. I know she is real, and I know what I saw, I also see that she is running out of places of where she can go to be at peace and quiet in the summertime. She gives us our space we should give her, her own space also.
--terry of glenbrook, nv on 2012-08-03 said:
I live right next to cave rock and go kayaking right here quite often. I don't know what I saw but my boyfriend an I were in a cove a couple hundred yards out from the shore right around the corner from cave rock. I was looking towards the shore and saw a wake headed towards us. At first I tried to rationalize it away thinking it was just a wave created by a breeze coming off the mountain top. It was a little breezy but nothing significant. My theory soon changed as it stayed in formation and continued towards us. I did have an underwater camera with us but was not about to stick my hands under water after seeing this. It continued on and swam directly in front of us out towards the middle of the lake. I may have been able to see it had it been close enough to the surface since the water is so clear but the two of us were frozen in fear and it was not right on the surface. In order for something to make that large of a wake and be at least a foot under the water it had to be something pretty sizable. The wake also did not come to a point in the front. Honestly I know I can't just assume it was Tessie but you can make up your own mind as to what it could have been.
--hans of carson, Nevad on 2011-11-19 said:
I was diving off cave rock with my good friend Mike Nelson. We were both using A semi closed rebreather system...hence no bubbles. The dive was uneventful for the most part. we had been down for about twenty to twenty five minutes..the visiblity was good... and the surface was clear with no other divers or boats in the immediate area. I was moitioning to Mike that we should go over to my left.. when I saw something that I have never seen before. My first impression was that it was a rather long log/ pole the circumference was and this is just an estimate was about 6 to 7 ft about 2 and half feet through coming towards us. I mointioned to my partner to turn the around pronto as his back was to him/it in very short order( blink of an eye) I could see it was an animate object...I would say first contact sighting was at 100 to 130 feet away. It was closing fast...I had two underwater flares with me which I don't normally carry, I struck one and it reacted immediately by going straight down and under us.I would put the length at easily 60 to 70 ft I would say that it past under us at a depth of 50 to 60 ft. I have been diving for over 45 years...I have never seen anything like that in my life. I would like to tell you that I was not affected by it but that would be untrue. My heart was in my throat though neither of us did not panic ,I can tell you the adrealin was flowing. We slowly and guardly left the area and curtailed our dive for that day. I can tell you this we both had a couple of adult beverages after the dive. what it was I cannot defintely say, but I can tell you it was alive...it was moving underwater at a high rate of speed and it's my guess that it definetly attined it's size on something more then marine plant life.
--Jim of Truckee, CA on 2011-11-11 said:
We took our boat out of the Coast Guard dock at Lake Forest on an Easter Sunday around 1990. Flat, calm, clear, no other boats in sight. Off the Old Chart House, a wave began to really rock the boat. The wave was a vee, at the origin I thought I saw two dogs swimming. We turned towards them. As we approached, the two objects, black and shiny, rose to about three feet high, about the diameter of a telephone pole. They were moving away, and each looked like a single water skier trying to make a deep water start, with water spraying up and to the sides. They then abruptly submerged. We criss-crossed the area, but saw nothing further. Whatever it was, it was not the wind nor our imaginations.
--Dan Pursley of Napa, CA on 2011-04-21 said:
In the summer of 1982, my Wife and I had stopped are 22-foot boat to sun ourselves in Lake Tahoe, CA. We were about 400 yards from the shore near Emerald Bay, My wife climbed out to the bow of the boat and held on by holding the windshield behind her. I laid out across the seats. The water was very still and smooth as glass. About five minutes or so later, the boat began rocking as if it was being hit by a boat's wake speeding by. I sat up but saw nothing around that could have caused this disturbance. As I looked at the water around are boat, there were large air bubbles surfacing. I felt this was rather odd as I am an experienced scuba diver and they didn't appear to be bubbles coming from a diver's scuba equipment. Then in the water five feet away from the back end of the boat, I spotted the largest fish tail I ever saw. It was slowly submerging in the water. The whole scene was like a slow motion movie. I jumped up and told my wife to get back in the boat, as we had to leave. She asked, "What happened to you? You look whiter than a ghost." I didn't tell my wife what I saw until we got back to shore, nor did I tell anyone else except a few close family members. In the years that passed, I began looking through every book I could find that had pictures of fish tails. I found nothing that resembled what I saw.. Then I began looking through dinosaur books with no luck. Finally, I heard about a catfish society in Nevada that published articles about experiences other people had with unusual fish. I learned that long ago when Indians lived in the area, they would talk about a great fish. Many people believed it was a large Sturgeon. What I saw, however, was no sturgeon. In fact in my opinion, what I saw was nothing like anything that ever existed before. It was longer across then the entire back of my boat. It was 10 to 13 feet across with smooth dark green skin and as the tail submerged in the water, it flipped towards the boat opposite to the way a whale's tail flips. To this day, I cannot understand how something so large could swim so close without hitting my boat and outboard moter. I remained quiet about this incident until now for two reasons: one, it was not worth hearing the skepticism, ridicule and disbelief of others; but most important, the grate fish, which I called Jupana, did not harm me. why should I chance harming him by revealing his whereabouts? I have a drawing of the Tail...
--Melissa of South Lake Tahoe, California on 2011-03-24 said:
A couple years ago I went to the beach and I was on my way back to the car, but I forgot my flip flops and the sun going down when i realized there was a dark shadow and I looked up and there was A LOT of bumps! Then I thought to myself to grab my PHONE and snap a photo! I took a blurry image, but you can clearly see that there is a lot of humps and a dinosour like head. I always wondered what i saw that day and I always go back to Cave Rock every year in hopes of catching Tessie AGAIN!!!
Onto other lake cryptids in Cali!
--bill ware of henderson, nv on 2016-07-05 said:
while living in Riverside, Ca in 1970-71 our neighbor took my wife and children boating at lake elsinore. while my wife was water skiing I observed something following her in the water just below the surface. She took a tumble and while in the water she felt a claw like hand grab her. It even left some red marks on her arm. On another visit to the lake we took a young 17 year old girl with us and while she was swimming near the shore something clawed at her leg and she became hysterical so much so that we had to carry her out of the water as she appeared to be in shock. whatever grabbed her left a claw mark on her leg. when we left for the day, the ranger at the gate stated the lake had rumors of some sort of underwater creature. we never returned to thins lake..........
--Sam Daniels of Redding, Ca on 2015-09-11 said:
It has been many years since my sighting of the Elsinore monster, at the time I was only 14 years old. My family has fished in that lake for years. One year the winter was a wet one ,heavy flooding had washed into the lake and it raised a lot. When spring hit we all went fishing at the lake. I didn't feel like fishing right off I wanted to explore around a bit. We went the a marina at the far west end of the lake and there was a very large area of reeds surrounding it. I was standing at the waters edge looking into the cove that was surrounded by a vast amount of these reeds. As I stood at the waters edge I could see a very large swirl on top of the water. Suddenly it came my way ,thinking it was one of the big fish I was startled to see it was what looked like a very large lizard coming at me. Oh I was scared but yet amazed at what I seen. It swam back a forth in front of me no more than 20 feet from me there was no humps on the back humps to the back0 feet from me. It had very huge round black eyes. Its skin was a very dark green with black spots on it. I couldn't see any teeth. Made no sound at all. Suddently it dove ,when it came up it had a very large carp in its mouth, that's how I noticed the teeth more like what a lizard would have. When it swallowed the carp it dove again and it never came back. I never told anyone about it because they wouldn't belive me anyway. I did tell a few people years later.
For you guys, espcially@westerncanadian, your welcome! Your thoughts guys?