North Shore Monster
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (September 2016) |
In Utah folklore, the North Shore Monster is a monster purported to live in Utah's Great Salt Lake.
History[]
At dusk or evening of the early summer of 1877, J.H. McNeil of Kelton, Box Elder County, and several other employees of the Barnes and Co. Salt Works company on the lake's north shore reported seeing a huge creature with a crocodile-like body and the head of a horse in the waters of the Great Salt Lake. The creature made a "fearsome bellowing noise" and charged the workers, who promptly ran up a nearby hillside and hid in the brush until morning. Some believe the "monster" was a buffalo. Around 30 years earlier, "a man identified only as Brother Bainbridge reported seeing a monster with a dolphin-like body in the lake near Antelope Island."[1]
References[]
- ^ Arave, Lynn (August 1, 1999). "Great tales surrounding the Great Salt Lake Its briny bowels are filled with monster myths". Deseret News. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- American legendary creatures
- Great Salt Lake
- Utah folklore
- Water monsters