Seneca Lake Drums / Guns Of The Seneca

It's true that you can hear loud booming sounds over Seneca Lake in the summer evenings. These booms have even been known to produce shockwaves that have rattled dishes in the cupboards of various homes.

The Native American Indians believed these sounds to be the drumming of the ancestors, evil spirits, or divine messages.

According to Wikipedia:
"Seneca Lake is also the site of a strange and currently unexplained phenomenon known as Mistpouffers. In this area, they are called the Seneca Guns, Lake Drums, or Lake Guns. These are mysterious cannon-like booms and shakes that are heard and felt in the surrounding area. The term Lake Guns originated in the short story "Lake Gun" by James Fenimore Cooper in 1851. Many believe that they are caused by giant air bubbles from deep in the lake bursting on the surface, which is not believed to be true. Others equate it with Indian folklore. The most likely explanation is due to sonic booms from military aircraft, though this does not explain the sounds heard during Cooper's time."

Another explanation people have for this phenomena is tectonic plates moving under the surface, but there is no evidence of this.

If there were giant gas bubbles erupting, wouldn't we be able to see and observe them?

So for now, the Lake Drums, or Guns of the Seneca still remain a mystery.

This is not the only place you can hear them. This phenomena is said to occur closeby in Cayuga Lake as well, and Connecticut, and on the coast of North Carolina.

Seneca Lake Monster?

There have been numerous stories and reports of a mysterious large serpent monster living in Seneca Lake, in New York.

"Native American Indians found Seneca Lake to be a mysterious place on many levels. They told of rumors that it was a bottomless lake. They also believed that the monster that lived in its depths was a force not to be trifled with. The first European Americans who encountered this area brushed off these stories as merely being the superstitions of a primitive people."
- Walter Gable - The Sea Serpent of Seneca Lake

Some photos and videos have surfaced over the years, and a whole lot of stories.

I do fully believe the following images to be fake, not that they were necessarily staged, but perhaps the photographer was unaware of what he/she was looking at. There are a lot of very large fish in that lake, as Gary (my fellow investigator) has seen personally.

This does not, however, mean there is no Seneca Lake monster. There just isn't any substantial evidence to say that there is.

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*The images in this article are not my own. If you have the legal rights to these images, please contact me so I can credit you.

A list of reported lake monsters - Wikipedia