A Lake Is a Lake Is a Lake...Isn't It? ShukerNature

Questions concerning the identity of a Tibetan lake reportedly filled with monsters leads Dr. Karl Shuker to examine the changing names of some lakes, especially those lakes within the confines of mainland China. One such lake in the northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region was previously referred to as Lake Hanas, but a new appellation has been bestowed on that body of water. Now it's referred to as Lake Kanasi. In 1985, however, when it was still Lake Hanas, imminent Chinese biologist Professor Xiang Lihao and a group of students observed some monstrous salmon-like fish in the lake that they say were at least 33-feet long. What happened to these huge fish? Has anyone captured one? Elsewhere, there are more lake cryptids in the news, as you'll see in Muirhead's Mysteries: Lake and Sea Monster Archives Part Three.

The Book Behind the Sewer-Alligator Legend The New York Times

The persistent urban legend of giant alligators populating the sewers beneath the streets of New York City comes full circle in this examination of how the story came about and grew legs that still propel it through some modern editions. The book that seems to have given the most impetus to the story was Robert Daley's The World Beneath the City, published in 1959, in which Daley talked with the former superintendent of the Big Apple's sewers, Teddy May. May said he didn't believe his workers claims of alligators occupying their workspace and descended into the depths to prove them wrong. However, according to what he told Daley, he did find quite a few small alligators cruising the polluted waters and set about getting rid of them. Daley duly reported May's words in his book, and an urban legend was born. So, were there ever any alligators of large enough size to present a danger in the sewers of New York City? The answer to that question comes from Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo in 1935 Sewer Gator Story Confirmed. With images.