Originally published at: Teen captures video of mystery beast in a small Ohio lake - Boing Boing
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Or a log.
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He would know…
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I don’t understand how people at this point don’t recognize the visual artifacts created by software zoom. Those don’t represent real details! You should know this by now!
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Well, don’t show the actual photos or anything. Back in the 1970s there was a strong rumor/near panic about an alligator sighting in Lafayette Reservoir in suburban Lafayette, CA. I saw cattail reeds matted down over the water in a pattern I recognized from a nature book as a possible spot where an alligator might sleep (disclaimer: I was about 10 at the time). No gator was ever officially confirmed, but the park rangers at the reservoir still have one of the old Alligator Sighting warning signs in their office. 
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But I asked ChatGPT, and it said those were real scales!
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Ohioan here. That is what’s known to the old folks in these parts as the deadly, mysterious Creek Beaver of Beavercreek.
Or a log.
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Came here to make sure this was posted!
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Oh, c’mon. A beaver? In BEAVER Creek? Seriously, what are the odds?
Now we’re just getting ridiculous.
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I dunno, these things happen sometimes.
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I know this is a tangent, but it is utterly charming and references logs and water and just yeah.
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Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia…
The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty scots pine.
The smell of fresh-cut timber! The crash of mighty trees!
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they do. and then they zoom in on the zoomed in photos. all the possible pixels for your perusing pleasure
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To be fair the video is cued to halfway through, missing the pictures.
@DizBuster just scroll back to the beginning of the video.
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I recently spotted the first copperhead I’ve seen in the wild in a couple decades, and I spend a lot more time in the woods than most. It was less than 100 feet from “Copperhead Falls” (the only named geographic feature I’m aware of with the name copperhead in it). I was tickled.
Related: There’s a Rattlesnake Creek" in Richmond, VA. At the spot where it crosses the most prominent road along its short path is a sign that identifies the creek by name and parenthetically below the name adds, “No Rattlesnakes”. Every time I see the sign I wonder if that’s a guarantee that somebody ran by the city’s legal department.
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