It seemed to float above the lake, and to fill the little valley with vague, undefinable forms of mist. Simpson says that he noticed the peculiarly penetrating odor arising from the water. On the evening of the 15th day of July - the moon being then near its full - the little party encamped at the upper end of the lake, about a half a mile west of the village. Of course he came by Bakersfield and Elizabeth lake. He had removed his family - a wife and three interesting children - from the Esmeralda mining country in Nevada and, having an excellent wagon and a good team among his personal effects, besides some dozen head of cattle, concluded, time being no object, to come overland to Santa Barbara county. We give the statement for what it is worth:

He says that these strange things are facts. Simpson, is authority for a story rivaling the fables of the Niebelungen Lied.

The old stage road from Los Angeles to Bakersfield runs through the San Francisquito cañon and up by Elizabeth Lake, and to this day emigrants, coming from Nevada and San Joaquin country to the coast in wagons, follow this beaten track to the Mojave desert.Ī newly arrived emigrant, a very respectable looking man indeed, given the name of Peter B. Now there comes to us in confirmation of the prospector's yarn, a tale so weird and strange, and, withal, so well vouched, that we must accord it a degree of credence seemingly impossible. We rather made a game of it, in fact, thinking the narrator had been a little the worse for bug-juice, perhaps, and so had let his too freely stimulated imagination run riot. Last Saturday evening the Free Press published a strange story told by a prospector from the vicinity of Elizabeth lake, and, of course, this paper gave no credence to the tale. It was a good story, but of course the Free Press couldn't swallow it but now comes evidence which knocks out the skeptics in the first round. A terrific monster - beside which all the chimeras, gorgons, minotaurs and other bugaboos of antiquity were harmless insects - had been found to inhabit the depths of Elizabeth Lake. The Ventura Free Press, a fortnight ago, had an able sensation. Los Angeles Times | Sunday, August 1, 1886. The Hideous 'Thing' with Dinner-Plate Scales, Headlight Eyes and a Harpoon Tail Now Paralyzing the Natives.

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