The following article about an encounter with a massive aquatic creature was published in the 'Norwich Bulletin' in Norwich, Connecticut on August 27, 1909.
The sea serpent of the Atlantic coast resorts will have to take a back seat for a queer amphibious creature that is reported in the Walnut River here by W. H Kinney and H. G. Case, who were fishing near the mouth of Black Creek Wednesday. Kinney bears evidence of conflict of some kind, his wrist was gashed as with a saw. The wound, he says, was inflicted by the river monster when it made a desperate effort to get into a boat occupied by himself and his companion.
The two men were fishing for bass and channel catfish when they saw the monster jump out of the water after a fish that Case had pulled up. The first sight of the creature led the men to believe that it was a huge eel, but its second appearance was more terrifying. The thing dashed close up to the boat after one of the captured fish. It had a long horn on its snout and measured about six feet in length. Its general facial appearance was like a catfish, except for the sharp horn. It was the horn that cut Kinney.
The strange visitor managed to crawl over the bow of the boat before the occupants could recover from their amazement. It impaled a bass that was lying on the bottom of the boat and then went overboard again. As the creature slid back into the water it slapped its tall, which seemed to have sponge-like qualities, so fiercely that the air was filled with a fine spray that blinded and drenched the fishermen.
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