Aquatic creatures. United States

This story was told to a resident of Virginia Donald Baldwin. And it proves that scientists still know little about the animal world of our planet (esoreiter.ru).

It happened when don was 11 years old and he lived in Alexandria (VA). At that time, the boy often ran to the pond to fish. The pond was small, and the depth did not exceed five feet. It was located behind the townhouse, where the family lived Donald.

On that memorable day was great Sunny weather. Don came to the pond one because his friends have for various reasons failed to join him. But boy it was great: no one prevented him to catch frogs and small turtles for the aquarium. In the water, near the shore, lay many boulders that don alternately turned in search of "prey."

Pristav a little boy sat down to rest on one of the stones. And then his attention was attracted by some movement in the middle of the pond. Looking closely, don was amazed to see something like an elephant's trunk that rose above the water. And then (Donald is willing to swear to it now) he saw the strange "trunk" of the eye, and now the creature resembled a giant snake!..

In the next moment "trunk snake" to cut through the water with decent speed moved towards Donald. He came in such indescribable horror that threw everything that was holding, and rushed away from the shore. A pond and a complex of townhouses shared a small part of the forest. Don a bullet raced through him, then, without reducing speed, ran, flew up the stairs to my door and almost ripped it from the hinges with the force jerked on myself. And he didn't even know how to run this fantastic water creature!..

Later the boy thought long and hard about what, exactly, he saw. Assuming that it really was a trunk, where it belonged? No elephant would fit at the bottom of this small pond. And besides, "trunk" behaved as if emerging from a pond, he first looked around and then saw don and rushed to him with some specific purpose, for example, to attack, or out of curiosity. If the "trunk" of the eyes that this could be...

Tormented by these questions, Donald, although not immediately, forced himself to return to the pond, but saw nothing in particular. Subsequently, he many times caught fish there, and nothing would disturb his rest.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»