WATCH: Mystery creature spotted by boat captain leaves viewers guessing

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[haydendillard]

Finally a camera man who did his job right

[nicktubbs]

Appreciate how professional the camera man was he kept quiet and kept filming
Pure gold

[fcukjobdn]

Even more rare than spotting the Loch Ness Monster is this guy's camera work!

[alexchris]

And thanks for coming to my Ted Talk on “Why I make the conscious decision to never go in large bodies of water.”

[timmitchell]

I'm not quite ready to say that's a dinosaur - but it's definitely a living creature, not immediately identifiable, and the camera operator didn't suddenly have a seizure. In other words - this is about 100Xs more convincing than any known photos or videos of the Loch Ness Monster.

[ThoughtSow]

Finally a clear video of the unknown even if we still don’t know anything about the creature

[JediBunny]

Sounds like it takes a “breath” near the end via blowhole, and the swimming pattern is vertically up and down rather than side to side, so my guess is something mammalian in the whale family. Or perhaps a seal, though they don’t have blowholes. But gators, crocs, sharks, and fish have horizontal swimming patterns and wouldn’t need that breath being taken (other than a croc or gator, but again, the swimming pattern isn’t horizontal and the skin looks very smooth, so not the texture of a croc or gator either).

[History]

Ive seen one of these over 15 years ago on a quiet still night when the lake was calm. my friend and i were talking on the pier when the silence was broken by a loud moving in the water. We both looked and ONLY saw its back, but it was about the size of the thing in this video. We never knew what it was and occasionally reminisced about it through the years. This is my first time ever seeing it again, and it gives me the same chills i experienced years ago. Whatever it is, im sure it's the same creature we saw!

[kenlejful]

Wow, one of the best video of an unknown creature

[Sekzay]

just bc the captain thinks it’s a right whale calf, doesn’t mean he correctly identified the animal…

[j-hookedfishing]

I saw something similar to this over a decade ago in Lake Superior and at first thought it was a seal. But later found out that there are no seals in the great lakes.

[gerhardhabibjoller]

Look at the link in the description. It's alredy debunked by the captain himself: Thankfully, Captain Griffee put the rumors to rest: he identified it as a right whale calf that got lost from its mother swimming around the port.

[buckleymordecai]

Ok, I'll tell you what it's NOT: a manatee, it moves too fast, an alligator, they don't blow air; a bottle-nosed dolphin, too serpentine; a baby whale would have momma near by.

[CatharinaShields]

Wow! Excellent footage! It looks like a giant moray eel the way its tail "flopped" in the water.

[Ranstone]

At the risk of sounding boring, this has many of the signs of aquatic mammals with scoliosis. Not uncommon. They cruise near the surface to breath, and their tail sticks up from their bent spine. Google whale with scoliosis and you can see how the tail looks like a sea serpent.

[indiachenoweth]

Seems mammal like. As if it needs to breath air above water. Doesn’t have large fins while twisting like a whale would but it’s tale is horizontal like a swimming mammal. Amazing.

[WHOOOSHXDOfficial]

I would’ve though it was croc until I saw the tail. It’s definitely something prehistoric!

[ricqik]

Two things that are common about these mysterious sightings. The tactic to get views and attention is... The creature is in full view but blurry OR the view is clear but the creature is hidden. It never fails....

[TrillBillTx]

This is obviously at least a 100 year old alligator gar. Do people not know really what that is?

[tillettman]

For those who are saying it’s a whale, do whales move like that? At 0:51 you see it had its head at the surface, its “shoulders” below the surface, its back above the surface, its “butt” below the surface, and its tail above the surface. Can a whale even bend like that? It seems more like some type of serpent. I know that whales are mammals and that’s about as far as my whale knowledge goes.