Lake Norman Monster Sightings
Below are recent submissions of Lake Norman Monster sightings.
New sightings are posted at the top.
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SIGHTING: Davidson Creek – 2015-01-26
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.
SIGHTING: Unnamed Cove – 2014-11-25
What you have is a breeding population of alligator gar! They attain lengths of 10 plus feet, weigh up to 300 plus pounds…
SIGHTING: Troutman – 2014-09-06
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.
SIGHTING: Lake Norman – 2014-06-30
The dang fish looked dang 200 pounds!!! He come up out of the water and showed me his teeth.
SIGHTING: Stumpy Creek – 2014-01-24
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…
SIGHTING: Marker 13A – 2014-01-03
I saw a large wave off the cove right at sunset. No boats were around.
SIGHTING: Lake Norman State Park – 2013-09-19
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.
SIGHTING: Blythe Landing Cove – 2013-07-31
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.”
SIGHTING: Left Side of the Dam – 2013-07-23
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…
SIGHTING: Hager’s Creek Area – 2013-07-08
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…