North Shore Monster

McNeil and other workers at the Barnes and Co. saltworks on the lake's northern shore claimed to have encountered a large creature with a crocodile-like body and the head of a horse.

[1][2] McNeil signed an affidavit attesting to the sighting, and the story was published in the Corinne Record and later in the Salt Lake Herald-Republican and the Deseret News.

[1][3] In another notable sighting, recorded in 1880, a group of Springville residents fishing on the lake reported seeing a serpentine creature with multiple humps breaking the water’s surface.

Around thirty years prior to McNeil's encounter, a man identified as Brother Bainbridge claimed to have seen a creature with a dolphin-like body in the lake near Antelope Island.

[4] The Great Salt Lake's salinity fluctuates between 3.5 and 8 times that of the ocean, depending on location and water levels, and has a maximum depth of 33 feet.

[7] In 1976, a short independent horror film titled The Giant Brine Shrimp was produced by Salt Lake local Mike Cassidy.