Here at Tet Zoo we’ve looked at lake monsters on a couple of occasions now: at alleged Nessie photos here, and at the sad death of the Lake Khaiyr monster here. For a while I’ve been planning to add to this list, and to write about one of the most famous, most iconic lake monster photos: the Mansi photo [detail shown in adjacent image: © Sandra Mansi]. This reasonably good colour photo is well known to everyone interested in cryptozoology, but I suppose is not so familiar to those who haven’t read the cryptozoological literature. So if you’re familiar with lake monster literature, nothing I’m about to say will be new to you. For the rest of you, here we go…

Tetrapod Zoology : Best lake monster image ever: the Mansi photo