In 1915, the Walker River Bulletin put out a bizarre report claiming the monsters had disrupted the lake into a kind of tsunami. In 1909, the Reno Evening Gazette reported that a Japanese railroad worker had attempted to swim ashore from a boat but was lost to the water and it was believed the monster ate his remains, as his body was never found. The report stated: “Cornelison says that at first sight he took the serpent for a man in a skiff, and when it disappeared for a moment he thought the boat had capzied, and rowed toward the spot, when it suddenly reappeared, giving them a good view of its proportions, which they estimated to be about thirty feet in length and six feet across the back.” The story goes that Don Cornelison and his friend John McCorry had been fishing in a both a mile from the shore when they spotted the creature. In 1907 a piece published by the Washington Herald reports that a prospector from Goldfield has seen the monster from the depths. He said it was covered in scales that glistened in the morning sun. He said the creature had a head similar to a crocodile, with its front feet near its neck, with a monstrously long tail. In 1868, a letter to the editor of the Esmerelda Union out of Aurora, resident Reuben Strathers said he and a friend had killed one of the monsters. The stories grew, thanks to publications reporting sightings and even a few bizarre battles with the lake monster.

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