#kingstie

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Cryptid of the Day: Lake Ontario Monster (Kingstie)

Description: Before European settlers came to the lake, Native Americans told of a giant horned serpent that lived in Lake Ontario. In 1829, two children reported seeing a 20-30 foot serpent swimming in the lake. Ever since, throughout the decades, people have reported seeing a serpent like creature in the lake.

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Kingstie

Kingstie:

It is explained in the book Mysteries of Toronto as follows: "As a prank, they had fabricated a semblance of the creature using a barrel filled with empty bottles for buoyancy and fitting it with a dragon-like head, rope and anchor to keep it in one place, and twine attached to the rope that ran underwater to the shore of Cartwright Bay to permit them to bob its barrel body and head up and down".