A Fresh-Water Cryptid Mystery

To say North Carolina’s Lake Norman is the haunt of a monster or monsters is no understatement. Far too many people have reported encounters with “it” over the years for it, or them, to be anything other than something quite frightening and highly unusual. A good starting place for this anomaly in the water is the fact of a nuclear power plant at the top of the lake.

Science fiction has a habit of becoming science fact. Many of us have seen films from the 1950s such as “Them,” or “The Amazing Colossal Man” to name just two movies about unrestrained growth due to radiation exposure. Lake Norman was created in 1963 by damming the Catawba River at a place called Cowan’s Ford. The water spread out well over 50 square miles forming a shoreline of some 520 miles, and in some spots going down well over 100 feet deep. This area of the river had a long history with the Catawba Native Americans, the early settlers, along with many historical sites from the Revolutionary and Civil War eras. Unfortunately, all underwater now.

The Nuclear Power Plant went commercially operational in 1981. Stories of gigantic fish in the lake go back farther in time though.