Man Says 30 Foot Monster Lives in Canals

[Aesop Rocks]

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/no...monster-lurking-canals-madeira-be/news-metro/

There's something strange and big swimming in the canals of Madeira Beach along the Pinellas County coast. Those who have seen it say it's no fish and think it could be a sea serpent.
Russ Sittlow, 78, has seen it. He calls the creature "Normandy Nessie" because he lives on Normandy Road.
The retired engineer said he first saw "Nessie" in April.
"His head come up out of the water, and then he rolled up in a double roll behind him and he was long he was huge," he said of that first sighting.
Sittlow said he has seen two of the creatures in the canal, one very large, and the other a bit smaller. He estimates the largest one is at least 30 feet long.
Sittlow set up a surveillance camera to record video if the creatures came back. He said his camera recorded "Nessie" three times since September, the latest Saturday.
He showed the video to a reporter. It shows a dark form swimming along the surface of the water. It appears to be about 30 feet long. Another clip shows the creature splashing in the water.
"I don't know what it is," he said.
When a reporter asked if he thought it was really a monster, he hedged.
"No, no, well, call a monster what you will, it's something different, it's something strange, it's something I've never seen in salt water," he stated.
Sittlow's account of what he saw is backed up by neighbor Maria VanAiken, 47, who said she saw the "monster" this summer while on her back porch.
"I looked up and I saw this like huge-looking creature," she said, adding that it wasn't a manatee or dolphin.
"This huge thing just came out of the water," she said.
Her husband saw the creature later.
When pressed, Sittlow backed off his sea monster theory, but not totally.
"This is a snake I guarantee you, or a serpent like thing that looks like a snake," he explained. He thinks it could be an anaconda or a python or "a mutation there of."
State wildlife officials who have seen Sittlow's video believe the creature is a manatee.
Sittlow disagrees. Whatever is in the canal is dangerous, he said, and he doesn't recommend swimming there until it's positively identified.

Cloverfield, is that you?

 

[AlteredEgo]

i think the obvious solution here is to kill it.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Why would you kill it?

 

[Paroxysm]

it was probably a Plesiosaur....

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I think it's Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.

 

[AlteredEgo]

Why would you kill it?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

You'd kill it for science? It's a helpless 30 foot creature!

You know, if given chance, PETA would protect Godzilla, Cloverfield, Xenomorphs and, Raptors.

Le sigh~

 

[AlteredEgo]

PETA actually threw paint on my Godzilla-skin coat. True story.

Godzilla-skin isn't machine washable you asshats.

 

[Dark Helmet]

Pics or it didnt happen

 

[BillyZaned]

Kill it!!!!!!!!

 

[bgates87]

Yeah I want to see the videos.

 

[bored]

You'd kill it for science? It's a helpless 30 foot creature!

You know, if given chance, PETA would protect Godzilla, Cloverfield, Xenomorphs and, Raptors.

Le sigh~

Cloverfield is one of nature's most beautiful creations, dammit!

 

[BillyZaned]

You'd kill it for science? It's a helpless 30 foot creature!

You know, if given chance, PETA would protect Godzilla, Cloverfield, Xenomorphs and, Raptors.

Le sigh~

so, PETA is the first stage of the company known as Weyland Yutani!!!

It's all coming together now

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Weyland Yutani?

Sounds like "Dryland Hootenanny"!

A once prosperus town in the west.

 

[BillyZaned]

Weyland Yutani?

Sounds like "Dryland Hootenanny"!

A once prosperus town in the west.

I'm taking it, that you don't know of Weyland Yutani, even though you know of Xenomorphs?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Wait. That's the company right? The one that like, grew them? Isn't that Alien Resurrection?

 

[BillyZaned]

almost.... In Alien, Weyland Yutani is who that crew worked for.

In Aliens, the marines were basically run by Weyland Yutani... and the colony on LV-426 was owned by Weyland Yutani

In Alien 3, Weyland Yutani owned the lead works / prison facility, and was the ones at the end in the white lab coats, and carrying cameras...

they created both andriods named Ash and Bishop/...


In Alien Ressurection, there is a passing refference to them.... WalMart bought them out....

 

[dark_b]

so let me see if i get this right. it was recorded but they wont show it?

where is the video? and let me guess we wont see anyhting.

just stop it. enough. its 2009. those are not the 70's anymore. we are not naive anymore.

 

[AlteredEgo]

so let me see if i get this right. it was recorded but they wont show it?

where is the video? and let me guess we wont see anyhting.

just stop it. enough. its 2009. those are not the 70's anymore. we are not naive anymore.

where's your child-like wonder?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I really wish we could see the vidya.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Video is not good enough.

Guided tours is the way to go

 

[Aesop Rocks]

We all know what happens with giant creatures and guided tours.

 

[SuperFerret]

It's possible.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea probably an Anaconda. Those things are frickin huge.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I don't think an Anaconda has been documented over 20 ft.

Well, there IS this picture:

Taken before photoshop or anything like that existed. Said to be 50+ feet.