Stearns Bayou monster remains cryptozoological mystery

The first witnesses of the creature were Charles Cotton, Herman Nyland and Charles Shupe on Aug. 9.
“The sight they saw is described as that of a hideous-looking beast moving through the waters with a head like that of a hippopotamus,” the Tribune reported Aug. 13, 1909. “The body resembled a soft-shell turtle about 6 feet in diameter and it had a tail about 10 feet long. The under shell or belly of the beast gave out aread more