Lake Mendota, Wisconsin- In the 1890s, the Lake Mendota monster was all the rage. The New North and The Racine Daily Journal both reported on the monster as an established figure. Accounts describe the creature as between 25 and 30 feet long with a head ten inches wide, a tail studded with horns. The Wisconsin State Journal reported sightings of the creature as late as the 1940s, after which it was given the nickname “Bozho” after an Ojibwe folk hero; Winnebozho.









