Hunters Will Scour Lake For Monsters Daily News

A creature is said to lurk in Cameron Lake, British Columbia. The Scientific Cryptozoology Club will be investigating the events, and the lake itself, this week after reports and pictures of the creatures emerged recently. But excited residents aren't eager to rid themselves of the suspected serpent-like monster. Instead, the Oceanside Tourism board is helping the cause since they are very aware that a tourism boon may be swimming beneath its placid waters. "There are no reports of anyone getting attacked at one of these lakes. In fact, it's a great tourist attraction," says John Kirk.

Bigfoot in Texas? LOWFI

In the eastern forested side of Texas comes the legend of a hairy hominid that stalks the nearly 12 million acres of wilderness. The first reports appear in Native American legends and in stories published before the turn of the century. The pursuit of Bigfoot sometimes resulted in harrowing encounters, some supposedly lethal. These stories were the jumping off point for the co-founder of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, Craig Woolheater. One encounter, dubbed the Lake Worth Monster, was all the buzz in the summer of 1969 and came to a climax with an alleged attack on a man sleeping in his truck at night; the man narrowly escaped the beast. Although the facts may never come close to the fiction with some of the reports, it's these stories, along with his own personal sighting of the elusive "Goatman" while traveling with a friend in the backwoods of Louisiana, that fuels Woolheater's passion to research the legendary cryptid today.