Lake Norman Monster Sightings

I was on my paddle board when the water made a ripple. It was winter so no one was out on the lake but me. I looked closer into the murky water and saw a faint image of a big unusual fish.

What you have is a breeding population of alligator gar! They attain lengths of 10 plus feet, weigh up to 300 plus pounds…

I was on a jetski a few weeks back when i first moved down here with my girlfriend and while we were out on the lake, we both saw a large body come to the surface.

The dang fish looked dang 200 pounds!!! He come up out of the water and showed me his teeth.

I just moved here and never heard of anything unusual in the lake. But in the 6 months I have been here I regularly see strange wakes on the surface of the water…

I saw a large wave off the cove right at sunset. No boats were around.

After reading about the Lake Norman Monster in a new book, “Monsters of North Carolina”, I convinced my husband that we needed to head out to look for this amazing creature which the writer claims has been there longer than the lake.

The other morning I was kayaking in the cove I live in and I could have sworn I saw an alligator but thought to myself “Brooke, c’mon it’s probably just your imagination.”

In the summer of 1985 two friends and I were bass fishing on the left side of Cowans Ford Dam in the shallow water. I looked down at what I first thought were big rocks…

While anchored near a cove close to my friend’s house, many of us were floating in the water, tubing and just lounging on the boat deck when I saw what looked like a bald human head come out of the water for a brief second…