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Storsjöodjuret – fact or fiction
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Testimonies of a unexplainable and terrifying creature in the Great Lake in the county of Jämtland are many. During the centuries the beast of the Great Lake – The Great Lake Monster have showed itself to the people in the area surrounding the lake. The attempts to explain the phenomenon have varied but still the mystery remains unsolved.
The earliest written explanation of a beast at Great Lake is from 1653. A vicar named Mogens Pedersen from Herdal wrote down the legend of Jata and Kata. It tells the story of two trolls boiling water in a kettle at the shores of the lake. When the kettle had been boiling for many years, noises of moan and squeak came from the kettle followed by a big bang.
One thing is for sure, we haven’t seen or heard the last of The Great Lake Monster have we?
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”A peculiar animal with black snakelike body and a cat shaped head jumped out of the kettle and disappeared into the depths of The Great Lake. The beast felt content in the lake and grew to a enormous proportion and put fear into humans as it showed itself. Finally it had grown so long it reached around the island Frösön and was able to bite its own tail.
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The humans who lived around the lake were of course afraid of the beast. One man however, Ketil Runske, knew what to do. He bound the beast with a spell into a rune stone which was raised at Frösön. Today the stone is located next to the former city council and it is marked with road signs as an archaeological remain.
After the incident the beast seemed to have been calm for hundreds of years until it according to written statements started to appear more and more recently during the nineteenth century. When the statements increased a decision was made to capture the beast.
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