There’s a “monster” in New Jersey’s Lake Hopatcong, and reporter Michael Izzo has the latest on it in the Daily Record. The article’s headline sums it up: “Expert: Lake Hopatcong Boa Is Green Anaconda.”

In this file photo, an anaconda snake at the Oklahoma City Zoo has dental floss taped to it’s head and along it’s body as it is measured. The floss and tape are necessary because it would be nearly impossible to stretch out the snake. This anaconda weighed 152 lbs. and measured 16 feet. An expert says the snake that he saw in Lake Hopatcong was an anaconda. Source.

Izzo also wrote of the long history of “Lake Monsters” in Lake Hopatcong, specifically of the creature called “Hoppie.”

“Hoppie has been discussed for more than a century since, most recently in Weird NJ magazines and the book Monsters of New Jersey written by Loren Coleman and Bruce G. Hallenbeck, noted Izzo here.