The Normandy Nessie video has created an internet buzz over the last few days. A retired man, in Florida, Russell Sittlow has discovered what he thinks is the US version of the Loch Ness monster, which he had dubbed the Normandy Nessie. To view a recent video taken of the Normandy Nessie, click here.
Russell wrote the following letter to the editors at several Tampa Bay Newspapers:
Editor:
At the risk of having everyone think I have lost it, gone bonkers or whatever, I must share this visual sighting with everyone since it has happened two times now.
The last time was a week ago and it came out of the water further than previously and I could estimate the girth that came out of the water at 12 to 15 inches in diameter.
It continued its roll seemingly for a long time and it had to be 12 to 15 feet in length judging by the roll time. It was brown on top with mottled brown and yellow lower side. It finally flipped its tail before disappearing and it was a flat, lamprey like vertical caudal fin an estimated 9 to 10 inches maximum flare tapering to a point. I never saw the head and there was no dorsal fin nor pectoral fins visible.
I have seen many porpoise almost daily here that swim up and down the canal usually in pairs and this was NOT a porpoise, no way!
After the first sighting I thought it might be a huge snake (python like in the Glades) that someone turned loose, escaped or whatever because it did not roll as high out of the water so the size (girth) was not real evident although it was the same color on back and sides from what I could see. It did not flip its tail that time so the weird shaped caudal fin was not visible.
I am sure glad that I told Bet about the sightings so the little guys in the white jackets don’t come for me. She believes me though it sounds a bit far out! LOL!
I see people in their wee kayaks paddling up and down the canal and think about how they could be a snack for the Normandy Nessie! LOL!
I am dead serious and this is not a spoof, joke or ruse. From the size of this thing it could pose a real danger to people and small animals.
Russell Sittloh
Madeira Beach
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Comments
That's a Manatee.
awesome might e a python cuz pythons can get that big
I've been reading a lot about this and there are a bunch of different theories on what it might be. I personally think it's a manatee.
its.....its..... its YOUR MOM!!!.. how did she get there though?
get a team out there, if its that dangerous it should be caught right?
It's probably just moss, I think??
It's probably just moss, right??
Looks like one monster of a snake to me. I'll never go into the lake again.
looks like a giant snake to me. i'll never go into the lake again.
i think its a plastic trash bag afloat in the tide
its most likley is a python, i just read an article about a month ago about a large number of pythons breedind in florida. this was due to hurricanes setting them free and people letting them do the dnr has estimated 30000 to 150000 and increasing and they noted that full grown pythons can reach 20ft so its most likley an extremely large python.
Its deffinately not a sea monster
its most likley is a python, i just read an article about a month ago about a large number of pythons breedind in florida. this was due to hurricanes setting them free and people letting them do the dnr has estimated 30000 to 150000 and increasing and they noted that full grown pythons can reach 20ft so its most likley an extremely large python.
ok, to the dumbasses who think its a manatee-wrong!!! snake, maybe. but i think it is a sea monster! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Its a Fat Bitch
Wasn't there a similar investigation on the TV show monster quest about an unidentified creature of some kind in these same waters, and this investigation couldn't determine what this thing was. In other words, isn't this old news?
I hope it chows some people!
As we get closer to 2012 you can bet we will see a lot of things like this, and I don't think that 20 to 50 years is long enough for python’s to adapt to salt water and have a rudder like tails.
It is an unknown creature and more than likely it is using the canal as a sanctuary for its baby
and if it were a python it would not travel in pairs.
It is a snake get over it and don't stop swimming in the lake because of it for we have been swimming with snakes for a ZILLION YEARS....Gesh!!!!
Its a huge snake......someone needs to get that out of the water!!!!!!!!!!
does it really matter what it is?
just leave it alone! People think that everything on this earth is theirs. We do not own the oceans or the lakes for God's sake! we have our own home so stop messing with these creatures and leave them alone! they have the right to live in peace in the homes that they made jsut as much as people have the right to live in peace on earth.
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