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Great Salt Lake

  • The North Shore Monster

    The North Shore Monster is a legendary cryptid said to inhabit the Great Salt Lake in Utah.  The 1877 Legend The most famous account occurred on July 8, 1877, near Monument Point on the lake’s northern shore.  Skepticism and Explanations Many experts and skeptics suggest these sightings are the result of misidentified natural phenomena: 

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  • The Great Salt Lake Whales

    The story of whales in the Great Salt Lake is a 19th-century hoax and urban legend, not a factual event. While tales from the 1870s claimed a British scientist, James Wickham, introduced two 35-foot Australian whales for a tourist attraction, it is biologically impossible for them to survive due to the lake’s extreme salinity (far

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