CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- How can you pass up a flier posted downtown that reads: "Lake Michigan Water Monster"?
WBBM looked into it — in-depth.
The flier reads: "Have you seen/heard/experienced an unusual encounters in the lake or rivers? Recently spotted an unknown large multi-legged creature swimming in the lake."
WBBM called the number and got an email response from an entity called "The Collective Abyss," and they sent us a link to a video from June posted by 63-year-old Tim Wenzel. The video is from live-streaming camera aimed at the lake in South Haven, Michigan.
"I saw this thing get bumped up next to the pier — this dark object; I couldn't see it well," Wenzel said. "And then I saw it get washed up over the pier and I thought, 'Oh no, it finally happened. A tourist drowned.'"
But Wenzel said it wasn't a person.
"I'm not convinced about anything yet, but I don't think it's something unknown to man — some monster — because you'd think fishermen who fish the lakes for quite awhile would've caught something in their nets."
He said it may have been a silt sock, those long fabric tubes that control erosion.
But in any case, he said he wants to print t-shirts to benefit the South Haven lighthouse, with a silhouette of the "Lake Ness Monster."
Wenzel said he doesn't know who "The Collective Abyss" is. Meanwhile, the mysterious entity promises to keep us posted on what they find.