Church leaders see Bear Lake monster.
“President Taylor’s Tour,” Deseret Evening News, August 17, 1881
PRESIDENT TAYLOR'S TOUR
Through courtesy of Secretary L. J. Nuttall, we are enabled to furnish a synopsis of the recent tour made by Presidents John Taylor and Geo. Q. Cannon, with a party, through settlements of Cache, Bear Lake, Rich, Summit, Wasatch and Utah Stakes, from which they returned to the this city yesterday morning.
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While on the way from Fish Haven, a number of the party saw what they supposed was the celebrated Bear Lake monster. It was described as a large undulating body, with about 30 feet of exposed surface, of a light cream color, moving swiftly through the water, at a distance of three miles from the point of observation.