The Mono Monster caught on Camera!

In the early 1990s, a strange piece of home video reportedly captured something unexpected along the shoreline of Mono Lake, California. The story says a family visiting the lake was filming the scenery with a camcorder, recording the water and the eerie limestone tufa formations. They apparently noticed nothing unusual at the time. It wasn’t until the footage was watched later that a dark, upright figure could be seen moving near the tufas in the distance. The figure appeared large, walked on two legs, and seemed to disappear behind the formations, leading some who later viewed the footage to describe it as a possible Bigfoot. The video has circulated in cryptid circles as the “Mono Lake Bigfoot” footage, although its origin, exact date, and the identity of the people who filmed it have never been firmly documented. That lack of information makes the footage impossible to authenticate, but it has become part of the larger collection of strange stories surrounding Mono Lake and California’s Eastern Sierra, an already otherworldly landscape with a long history of legends, unusual sightings, and unexplained encounters.