Having grown up right by the "home" of the "Lake Erie Monster, Bessie", I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of things the internet had to say about this alleged monster...
The best website I found was
http://www.monstertracker.com/. This website talks about the Lake Erie Monster; as well as Bigfoot, Mothman, UFOs, and Mysterious Water Mammoths. The website states that "The purpose of this website is to capture evidence that lake monsters exist, and that Bessie and her cousins should be studied by professional zoologists and cryptozoologists." Basically, the website is a bunch of urban legends and tall tales put online for people to read about. Dirk Vander Ploeg is the editor and publisher of the website. He doesn't state to have any education or experience in a field to be able to truly determine the existence of these things, but that he simply enjoys learning and talking about them. I would have to say that this website is not credible, based on it all being about alleged sightings and rare species with no scientific evidence backing it up.
