Does The Bay Area Have Its Own Loch Ness Monster?
PINELLAS COUNTY (Bay News 9) — A Bay area resident says there’s something unusual living in the canal behind his home and he has video he hopes will prove it. From the deck behind Russ Sittloh’s home there’s a beautiful waterfront view. But lurking beneath the water is what he believes to be Madeira Beach’s version of the Loch Ness Monster. “He was chasing fish,” Sittloh said. “He did two rolls and then a jump like he was chomping on fish, and then he disappeared.” Sittloh calls the creature Normandy Nessie after the road he lives on. He describes it as a giant snake or snakes and says one was at least 14 inches in diameter. “The tail was like a spade-shaped caudal fin and vertical, never saw that on a snake before so I don’t know if it was a mutation or what,” he said. Sittloh admits some people won’t believe him. “I’ve got to have proof because people gonna think I’m nuts,” he said. That’s why this month he splurged on a $370 surveillance camera. Eight hours a day he records the can
