Nessie has company
You might not have heard of Gnessie, Chessie, Bessie or Champ, but there have been countless sightings of water monsters in Canada and the USA over the centuries. In fact, North America boasts a veritable menagerie of on record unexplained zoological anomalies of the amphibious variety. These beasts exhibit a bewildering diversity of shapes and sizes, an indication that there could be several totally distinct types of unidentified water monster out there awaiting disclosure. They also do no harm to the tourist trade in areas of incredible natural beauty. One major category of water monster reported from North America is the many-humps (named by veteran cryptozoologist Dr Bernard Heuvelmans in his well-documented classification of sea serpents and their freshwater counterparts), which displays a superficial similarity to an extremely lengthy, highly elongate snake with a notably flexible body. Unlike all true snakes, however, the many-humped water monster can flex its body vertically, sometimes yielding a series of arch-like or humped vertical undulations. True snakes, conversely, can only flex or undulate their bodies horizontally.
Read the whole fascinating article in issue 14.