The Bear Lake Monster (G)
Jan 7, 2016 6:29:30 GMT -8
Post by lyraalluse on Jan 7, 2016 6:29:30 GMT -8
The Bear Lake Monster
© Emma Lee Downs
An essay about my encounter with the Bear Lake Monster when I was young.
The Bear Lake Monster
When I was young, I would visit my grandfather at his vacation home in Bear Lake, Idaho every summer. Like most of the people in the neighborhood, his house was built right next to the lake so you could literally spend the whole day at the lake below by simply walking down to it if you wanted to. I would play with the neighbors who lived next-door in a log cabin. Together we would all build sand castles, go swimming, ride around on boats and jet skis and roast marshmallows over the campfire at night. It was always great fun and one of the highlights of my childhood.
Bear Lake was very old and had ancient cave systems winding underneath its waves. I would often find fossils of prehistoric creatures washed up on the shore and I collected many throughout my childhood some of which I still have today. Because Bear Lake was a very old body of water there were rumors about a monster that lived underneath the water which everyone called the Bear Lake Monster. No one really took the stories seriously but when I was ten years old I had an encounter which made me think that the Bear Lake Monster just might be real.
One day when I went out swimming I started to notice that the waves were getting very large around me but there was no evidence of a storm. Confused, I looked down to see a massive dark object directly below my feet. I immediately panicked and attempted to swim to shore. I remember kicking the side of something huge as I swam away. When I finally managed to reach the shore line I looked back to see a giant body of something peek out from the waves for a few moments and then go back into the water again.
After that encounter I saw the creature swimming up briefly and submerging a few different times until one day I never saw it in front of my grandfather’s property again. But ever since I saw that creature I never liked to swim in deep water. Even to this day, I will never go swimming too far out into the ocean or any body of water. Because you never know what can be lurking just below the waves.
© Emma Lee Downs
An essay about my encounter with the Bear Lake Monster when I was young.
The Bear Lake Monster
When I was young, I would visit my grandfather at his vacation home in Bear Lake, Idaho every summer. Like most of the people in the neighborhood, his house was built right next to the lake so you could literally spend the whole day at the lake below by simply walking down to it if you wanted to. I would play with the neighbors who lived next-door in a log cabin. Together we would all build sand castles, go swimming, ride around on boats and jet skis and roast marshmallows over the campfire at night. It was always great fun and one of the highlights of my childhood.
Bear Lake was very old and had ancient cave systems winding underneath its waves. I would often find fossils of prehistoric creatures washed up on the shore and I collected many throughout my childhood some of which I still have today. Because Bear Lake was a very old body of water there were rumors about a monster that lived underneath the water which everyone called the Bear Lake Monster. No one really took the stories seriously but when I was ten years old I had an encounter which made me think that the Bear Lake Monster just might be real.
One day when I went out swimming I started to notice that the waves were getting very large around me but there was no evidence of a storm. Confused, I looked down to see a massive dark object directly below my feet. I immediately panicked and attempted to swim to shore. I remember kicking the side of something huge as I swam away. When I finally managed to reach the shore line I looked back to see a giant body of something peek out from the waves for a few moments and then go back into the water again.
After that encounter I saw the creature swimming up briefly and submerging a few different times until one day I never saw it in front of my grandfather’s property again. But ever since I saw that creature I never liked to swim in deep water. Even to this day, I will never go swimming too far out into the ocean or any body of water. Because you never know what can be lurking just below the waves.
