| In 1889, Capt. James C. Kerr and his crew reported | | | | In 1993, there were more than twenty reported |
| that they saw a whale like creature approaching their | | | | sightings of the Flathead Lake Monster. Among the |
| lake steamer in the waters of Flathead Lake, Montana. | | | | most prominent records were those during July 13 and |
| One of the crew apparently fired his rifle at it and it | | | | July 29. On July 13, a bank officer and a sales |
| scared the creature away. | | | | manager of Seattle claimed that they had videotaped |
| In 1949, the Polson family who was out for a picnic | | | | their sighting of the Flathead Lake Monster. They said |
| near the lake reported that they saw a very huge fish | | | | that the monster had a sturgeon-like head but its body |
| in Flathead lake. It was more than a hundred meters | | | | seemed to be more akin to that of an eel. They said |
| from them but they could clearly see about six feet of | | | | that the body seemed to be at least twelve feet in |
| its tail appearing above the water. It swam towards | | | | length. In the video, a dark shape emerging from the |
| the southeastern part of the lake and it produced | | | | water's surface can be observed. |
| waves that were a foot high as it gradually went | | | | Two weeks after, an Illinois policeman with his family |
| under water. | | | | said that they saw a "nessie" in the waters near the |
| On May 28, 1955, Leslie Griffith was able to catch a | | | | north side of Wild Horse Island. They said that they |
| very big sturgeon near Dayton, several miles down the | | | | were on their boat when they spotted the creature |
| Flathead Lake. The sturgeon put off a very good fight | | | | fifty yards away from them. They said that it swam |
| as Griffith pointed out. When the carcass of the white | | | | past their boat at a distance of about a hundred yards |
| sturgeon was measured, it was about eight foot long; | | | | away. According to the officer, the Flathead Lake |
| weighing almost two hundred pounds. The remains of | | | | monster had a shiny and slippery body. It had a head |
| the white sturgeon were then brought to the | | | | much like the size of a bowling ball and its body |
| Polson-Flathead Historical Museum. | | | | extended to about twenty feet long. |
| At that account, people in the area around Flathead | | | | There is a website that describes the Flathead Lake |
| Lake assumed that it was the end of the line for their | | | | Monster and numerous other creatures of |
| own "Nessie" story. However many skeptics theorized | | | | Cryptozoology in detail, this website is called: Unknown |
| that the large fish might have been pulled from the | | | | Creatures and it may be found at this url: |
| lake, but it might have been brought in to the lake from | | | | You may publish this article in your ezine, newsletter or |
| somewhere else. True to most theories, the slain | | | | on your web site as long as it is reprinted in its entirety |
| sturgeon did not put an end to the stories of the | | | | and without modification except for formatting needs |
| Flathead Lake Monster. More sightings of the creature | | | | or grammar corrections. |
| were reported every year. | | | | |