Muck Monster - West Palm Beach,FL
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N 26° 41.714 W 080° 02.992
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Located on the waterfront in West Palm Beach.A video showing a mysterious wake soon turned into the Muck Monster.
Waymark Code: WM79FR
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2009
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Monster Quest did an hour on the critter. Everyone in West Palm is now talking about it - the great Muck Monster of Lake Worth!
“…Greg Reynolds of LagoonKeepers.org recalls, “Channel marker ten is the first time we saw the unknown creature.” “I hollered out…and said what is that? We followed it, started taking video.”
This mysterious creature was caught on tape by the LagoonKeepers.
Don Serrano was with Reynolds. “I didn’t know what it was….I was like HEY LOOK! And we moved over and saw it. It was different, very different.”
“Little wakes and just kind of moving like this…real long ones too, just like that.”
Reynolds remembers, “We sped up on it to catch up to it and we got up on it, it dove down.” “Every time we get 10 feet from it, it would just disappear.”
What could it be?
“Who knows? I have no idea, but it was something that’s for sure, without a doubt,” said Serrano.
Thanks to the LagoonKeepers, until it’s identified, it has a name:
Reynolds calls it, “The elusive muck monster!”…”
The city had already announced that it will set up a viewing and feeding area for visitors to take a peak at the Muck Monster, a mysterious object in the Lake Worth Lagoon that first appeared on
YouTube this summer.
"This has actually become a pretty serious business," mayor Lois Frankel said. "We'll be visited by CNN, who will be looking for the Muck Monster. In all seriousness, what I think has happened is that, because of all of the work on the water front, the rebuilding of the sea wall and all the construction going down there, it has stirred up this creature."
The proclamation was brought forward by commissioner Bill Moss.
"Because of all the interest from people all over the country, and now as I understand it from all over the world," Moss said, "we wanted to officially declare the Muck Monster to be part of the city of West Palm Beach and to welcome him or her into the city."