In his book "Lake Monsters of Wisconsin," researcher, lecturer and writer of "all things Wisconsin weird" Chad Lewis documents the stories of dozens of creatures who have been sighted in Wisconsin ...

Lake Winnebago water monster. A 2020 story in the Oshkosh Northwestern explains that the Lake Winnebago creature sightings originated with stories from Ho-Chunk people of a creature that attacked ...

Consider the water monster of Lake Winnebago, which dined on elk and deer, according to "Blue Men and River Monsters: Folklore of the North" by John Zimm.

There are patterns to lake creature descriptions. Unsurprisingly to Lewis, many descriptions of Wisconsin's lake creatures resemble Nessie — "a long neck, almost like a dinosaur in the water." ...

Spearfisherman snags 177-pound monster, ... The largest sturgeon caught in the Lake Winnebago area was snagged ... The Winnebago water system in Wisconsin has one of the largest population ...

Spearfisherman snags 177-pound monster, ... The largest sturgeon caught in the Lake Winnebago area was snagged ... The Winnebago water system in Wisconsin has one of the largest population ...

Spearfisherman snags 177-pound monster, ... The largest sturgeon caught in the Lake Winnebago area was snagged ... The Winnebago water system in Wisconsin has one of the largest population ...

The Winnebago water system in Wisconsin has one of the largest population of sturgeon in the country, officials said. The area’s annual sturgeon spearfishing season is closely monitored.

I've seen open water on Lake Winnebago during sturgeon spearing, and there was 15 inches of ice all around it," Herman said. "Geese were keeping it open, so we tried to keep them away. We've done ...