If you reported seeing a giant monster stalking the canals in the Madeira Beach area of Tampa, Florida, people would say you’re crazy. Surely Russ Sittlow, a retired 78-year-old engineer, knows this. However, after having captured a beast he calls Normandy Nessie (after the road he lives on) on film twice and having spotted it at least six times with his own eyes, he’s finally grown concerned enough to take his story public. The comments on this article seem to corroborate his story as not just a crazy old fellow’s ramblings.
The common belief is that this cryptid is nothing more than a snake or, perhaps, a manatee. They’re known to get into the canals down there in Florida, so it’s not difficult to imagine that might be what it is, but Sittlow is convinced it’s more than that (and given that the shadow caught on film moving in the water is 30 feet long, odds are it’s not a manatee). At the very least, it’s some sort of mutated version of a giant snake in his eyes. It’s a retreat from the sea monster line, but not much of one.
It would be really cool if it was a legitimate sea monster, wouldn’t it?
Tags: sea monster, canal monster, Tampa, Florida, Madeira Beach Monster, Normandy Nessie, beach monster, cryptids, cryptozoology, Russ Sittlow
