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It seems like every state with large lakes or bodies of water has a giant water cryptid. This one is kind of shared with Maryland. It’s the Chesapeake Bay Serpent also known as Chessie. It’s said be about 30-35 feet long, and has been sighting many times over the years by fisherman, naval officers and even FBI agents.
One of the possible first sightings we could find took place in 1846, when a ship captain who was sailing between Cape Henry and Cape Charles over on the eastern shoreline. When suddenly he saw what he described as a “small headed serpent-like creator”.
Much later in the 1980’s there were a ton of sightings. One in particular on a clear night back in May of 1982, a man named Robert Frew and his wife had some friends over for a get together. Robert looked out at the bay to admire the view when he noticed something strange. He saw a large object, about 30 feet long floating against the tide. It had a long slender body, humps along its back and a head resembling a horse or a snake’s.Robert and his friends watched the creature in awe and even managed to video record it! The story and video blew up all over the news and media. There have been many sightings of the feature before and after this as well.
Lately a more recent sighting, this one I found from 2014. Two friends were driving along the Magothy River, when suddenly they notices a 35ft or so snake-like creature in the river. They said that it had a football shaped head.
Source: https://www.chesapeakeconservation.org/lightning-update/chessie-the-chesapeake-bay-sea-monster/
Mysterious Creatures In The Old Dominion by L. B. Taylor Jr.
