Are there any sea monsters in Lake Superior?

In Lake Superior, near the Presque Isle River, the creature is called Pressie. Over the past 400 years, there have been numerous sightings of Pressie. In one famous published story, a copper prospector came across the creature in an underwater cave in Lake Superior.



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Mishipeshu is said to live near Michipicoten and Manitoulin Island in Lake Superior, and is often regarded as a symbol of the lake's power. Mishipeshu is able to cause storms, waves, and whirlpools. The water spirit travels through underwater tunnels, speaking in a roaring hiss that sounds like rushing water.

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The Water Monster of Lake Erie Bessie, who is also called South Bay Bessie because of the location of the sightings, has been seen multiple times since the 1800's. It is said that she is covered in gray scales, has a large head, and is around 30 to 40 feet long.

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In northeastern Ohio and Michigan folklore, Bessie is a name given to a lake monster in Lake Erie, also known as South Bay Bessie or simply The Lake Erie Monster.

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Lake sturgeon are the largest fish in Lake Superior. They are among the oldest fish in the lake too. Did you know that a lake sturgeon can live to be older than 100 years? This species of fish has also been around for a long time—about 150 million years.

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In inland lakes their main predator as adults are humans. As adults in Lake Superior their main predator, besides humans, is the sea lamprey.

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Note: no orcas in Lake Superior, so another breed.

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It's the 'forgotten' Great Lake Lake Huron is often overlooked compared with the other four Great Lakes. Superior has a reputation as the coldest, deepest and largest.

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In Lake Tahoe folklore, Tahoe Tessie is a creature which resides in North America's largest alpine lake, Lake Tahoe, located in Nevada and California. It is said to live in an underwater tunnel that is beneath Cave Rock.

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Well-known lake monsters include:
  • Mishipeshu, in Lake Superior, Canada and US.
  • Nessie, in Loch Ness, Scotland.
  • Morag, in Loch Morar, Scotland.
  • Lagarfljót Worm, in Lagarfljót, Iceland.
  • Ogopogo, in Okanagan Lake, Canada.
  • Lariosauro, in Lake Como, Italy.
  • Champ, in Lake Champlain, Canada and US.


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During the 1960s, Lake Erie was declared a “dead lake” due to eutrophication and pollution. The children's book, The Lorax, written by Dr.

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The legend is that a Native American woman lost her love to Lake Superior and, because she spent the rest of her life on the beach crying and calling out to him, the white sand still calls to him to this day.

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Species native to the lake include banded killifish, bloater, brook trout, burbot, cisco, lake sturgeon, lake trout, lake whitefish, longnose sucker, muskellunge, northern pike, pumpkinseed, rock bass, round whitefish, smallmouth bass, walleye, white sucker and yellow perch.

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That's when he realized the fish had fallen victim to a sea lamprey—the scariest creature in the Great Lakes. The invasive, eel-like parasite has a round mouth filled with concentric rows of tiny teeth that could creep out a dentist.

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Allegedly it's a 60-foot-long serpentine “monster” named Tessie. Tahoe Tessie that is. This isn't a new story either. The local Indian tribes have long spoken of monsters in the lake and some other theories point to a giant sturgeon perhaps inhabiting the dark areas of the water.

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An article by the Reno Gazette Journal claims that around the late 1800s, Lake Tahoe was essentially a dumping ground for Chinese railroad workers' bodies. They would be thrown into the lake by the hundreds while still alive and tied up in big groups and weighed down to sink to the bottom.

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Compared to other lakes, Tahoe's cast of aquatic characters is fairly small. Among those you can see with the naked eye, there are several species of trout (rainbow, brook, brown and lake), the Kokanee salmon, crayfish, mysis shrimp, and a few other near-shore and bottom-dwelling fish.

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Lake Michigan in particular is the roughest of the Great Lakes, and poses a major risk to those thinking of taking a dip.

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Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake in North America (by surface area) and the eleventh-largest worldwide. It is the Great Lakes' southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume. By the 1960s, Lake Erie had become the most polluted of the Great Lakes, owing to the substantial industrial presence along its coasts.

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Lake Superior is safe for swimming. In fact, it has the lowest drowning rate of all the Great Lakes, as reflected in the statistics provided by the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project. There were 108 confirmed drownings in the Great Lakes in 2022, along with 12 unknown final outcomes.

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The truth: There are no whales, no dolphins or sharks, and no squid in the Great Lakes.

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