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Chessie is a legendary sea monster said to live in the midst of the Chesapeake Bay. Over the years there have been many alleged sightings of a serpent-like creature with flippers as part of its body. Most sighting reports describe it as a long, snake-like creature, from to long. It is said to swim using its body as a sine curve moving through the water. There were a rash of sightings in 1977 and more in the mid-1980s. The most recent sighting occurred on April 5, 2014 at 1:40 am described by the witness "when the tide was very high". While parked on the side of Arundel Beach Road directly next to the Magothy River, a Maryland resident and his friend reportedly saw Chessy less than 5 feet away from his car, and described it as having no fins but being a snake like creature 25–30 feet in length with a slender, football shaped head and black colored, though he could not distinguish between having scales or leathery skin. The creature did not rise out of the water, but described it as the head and tail end "just breaching the surface of the water moving in a serpentine motion". The witness first questioned himself if it was 2 separate animals traveling behind one another, but soon realized however that it was one continuous creature, by the water disturbance/flow it created on the surface of the water. There are no known snakes in Maryland that get anywhere close to 25 feet long. Though no photo was able to be obtained because the witness was "Too busy trying to figure out what the hell it was" that he didn't think to take a picture with his cell phone, the witness was so moved he called The Department Of Natural Resources soon after the sighting. Although there are alleged photographs of Chessie, there is no genuine evidence of its existence. Speculation to explain sightings has included a "mutant eel" theory, large river otters, prehistoric ''Zeuglodon''s, and South American anacondas escaping from 18th- and 19th-century sailing ships. ==Sightings== According to Matt Lake in ''Weird Maryland'', two perch fishermen, Francis Klarrman and Edward J. Ward, in 1943 spotted something in the water near Baltimore. A photograph of an unknown sea creature taken by Trudy Guthrie in 1980 was later identified as a manatee from Florida. Manatees are unusual this far from Florida. A manatee nicknamed “Chessie” was rescued from the Chesapeake's chilly water in October 1994 and returned to Florida, but has revisited the Chesapeake several times since then. It was photographed in the Patapsco River in 2010 (unconfirmed) and near the shore of Calvert County on July 12, 2011. The more recent photograph was confirmed by U.S. Geological Survey biologists. Unlike the reports of a serpentine creature, manatees do not swim undulating from side to side.〔(Official Biography: Chessie ) Save the Manatee Club, retrieved 2009-12-17〕 In 1982 Robert and Karen Frew supposedly videotaped Chessie near Kent Island. Their video shows a brownish object moving side to side like an aquatic snake.〔 The last notable sighting of the beast was in 1997, off the shore of Fort Smallwood State Park, very close to shore. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chessie (sea monster)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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