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"Local Monster Lore"

I saw the SLM in 1952 or '53 camping out on the point with Mickey Rahn and Bill Righeimer. It chased us back home to our cottage where we camped out in the living room for the rest of the evening. It is definitely of the Big Foot variety and, at age 13, we were not drinking. We always thought it lived in the swamps on Pitcher's land or over by Dewey Lake where they found 'the bones'.

Best John Borling

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I remember the Sisters Lakes Monster. On 95th Street right before the top of the hill on the Little Crooked lake side of the street was an abandoned two story frame house that us kids were told that the Monster lived their. A total fabrication by my father. My father told all of us little kids that the monster looked like Big Foot. The monster looks almost like a man, but mainly bear. So as we would walk back from Driftwood in the evening, we would run past the house and try not to look. My two older brothers (for the summer) Larry and Mike Karl, just took over the story were my father left off, in teasing my brother Chris and I about the monster. I remember we got brave enough to get close to the house. Larry had gotten there before us and was making rustling sounds in the high grass and trees. Scared us little kids, so you could hear us screaming all the way to the house. I believe my father put him up to it. The Mitchell's are on the fourth generation of Sister Laker's. My grandmother and her six children started coming up for the summer in 1949 (my father being a young teenager and one of the early patrons of Driftwood). Thanks for reminding us about the Monster.

Tammy Mitchell

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Coming to the lakes every summer as soon as school let out in Chicago, the news of the SLM was "big stuff", especially when we had summer company. My mothers friend and kids were out one week and while eating "Monster Burgers" at the local A&W my mother told our visitors the "very embilished" story of the SLM and, of course, scared us all silly. Trying to get us all corralled and in for the night so they could play a hot game of 'Aggravation' was not easy, especially w/Day Light Savings time and it still being light at 10 p.m. So they took us for a ride over to Swisher Street (place of most "recent sighting") while is was getting dark...the car "suddenly stopped" and wouldn't start. While frantically trying to start the car, we heard rustling in the woods we were all scared to death. Yelling and crying followed and the car started...just in time. We got home safely and all went to bed quickly! Pretty cheap trick to get us to bed to play their game of Aggravation, but it worked :-)

Leslie (Fifer) Lutes

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I remember this! The movie kit is what rang a big bell. Jackie (Lutes) Goldstein

(contributed by Leslie Lutes- June 2002)

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