Lake Erie Bessie — 1817 and nobody talks about this anymore

People sleep on Bessie because she's not Champ and she's not Nessie. But Lake Erie sightings go back to 1817 — that's an American sailing crew reporting a massive snake-like creature near the Ohio shoreline. The Inland Seas account. It's in the historical record. Fast forward to the 1980s and 90s a……