These large, eel-like creatures are notorious for attacking divers during search and rescue operations… and have even been credited with assailing their victims through thick sheets of winter ice.
One of the most vicious lake cryptids ever chronicled, this creature is said to be responsible for three deaths in 1992 and there are some who believe that its offspring have recently emerged murky depths of Lake Erie in order to feed on unwary swimmers.
This plesiosaur-like animal is reputed to haunt Bynoe Bay near Darwin, Australia, and there are those who claim that there exists a series of Aborigine cave paintings, which depict the creature.
This sturgeon-like monstrosity is said to be the result of the massive amounts of pollutants, which are spewed daily into Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake on Earth.