LOCATION FILE

Lake Ikeda — Issie

Ibusuki, Kagoshima

CRYPTIDPhotographed 1978 (by 'Mr Matsubara'); about twenty other witnesses the same yearCaldera lake 40 km south of Kagoshima, the largest lake on KyūshūPUBLICDOCUMENTEDLEGEND

Lake Ikeda — Issie — Image: David Lisbona from Haifa, Israel · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

OVERVIEW

Lake Ikeda is a caldera lake about 40 km south of Kagoshima on Kyūshū, Japan, best known to tourists for Issie (イッシー), a saurian creature said to live there. The lake holds large eels, some six feet long.

HISTORY

In local legend Issie was a white mare whose foal was taken by a samurai; unable to find it, she leapt into the lake and her despair turned her into a giant beast that surfaces still, searching. In 1978 a man known as 'Mr Matsubara' was said to have photographed the creature, and about twenty other people reported seeing it swim that year: black, with two humps each about five metres long.

REPORTED ACTIVITY

LEGEND. The source records the photograph and the sightings but no examination of either.

VISITING

A public lake and tourist area.

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Wikipedia — Lake Ikeda ↗

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