![]() ![]() Rancher Miguel Leonis, who subsequently acquired the land, reported his own encounter with a griffin-like creature at the lake. ![]() In 1886, another rancher, Don Felipe Rivera, claimed to see a 45-foot beast at the lake that tried to eat one of his steers. It would roar and splash the water with what appeared to be great flippers or legs.” Lopez subsequently also abandoned the lakeside property, claiming that his livestock were vanishing. Not long afterward, rancher and new owner Don Francisco "Chico" López (after whom the lake came to be named Laguna de Chico López), range boss Chico Vasquez, and Don Guillermo Mentiroso claimed to witness at the lake “a huge monster, larger than the greatest whale, with enormous bat-like wings…. In 1855, American settlers tried moving into the area, only to later abandon it with complaints of disturbing and unnatural nocturnal noises and sightings. He complained of La Laguna del Diablo, as the lake was named prior to 1834. One of the earliest recorded stories from the 1830s recounted that Don Pedro Carrillo abandoned a ranch on the lakeshore after structures on the property were destroyed by a mysterious fire. Early Spanish settlers supposedly told stories that the Devil himself created the lake and kept one of his pets in it. Legend has it that a monster lived in Elizabeth Lake (17 miles west of Palmdale on Elizabeth Lake Road). Although some elements of the story may indeed be historical fact, we offer these stories as a part of the cultural fabric of Los Angeles County. Photo by Kfasimpaur, posted in Wikimedia Commons.Įditor's Note: the Almanac includes the following as folklore - not history. Home | All Almanac Topics | Mysterious L.A.Įlizabeth Lake in the Angeles National Forest, 2008. Court & Vital Records from Orange County, CA.Postal Zip Code Look-up for Los Angeles County.The Los Angeles Basin - A Huge Bowl of Sand.Can a Volcanic Eruption Occur in Los Angeles?. ![]()
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