Welcome to What The Heck's Creature Feature! These episodes release on Saturdays and look at folklore and cryptids from around the world! The same academic style is applied to these episodes, but they look at history and eyewitness reports before describing the creature of the week! A lot of the time, theories are a bit more scarce than the main episodes, but the content is still just as interesting.

This week we're looking at the Lake Tota Monster. In the Colombian Andes Mountains, Lake Tota can be found. The indigenous Muisca peoples have had a long history with the lake, and the monster that was trapped within it. However, when the Spanish conquistadors came to colonise the area, they brought Catholicism and changed the folklore of the creature. How did the lake first form? What do the Muisca say about the Lake Tota Monster compared to the colonisers? What is it? Listen in to find out!

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References:-

Beaumont, Wade. “The Legendary Lake Tota Monster– Hangar1publishing.” Hangar1publishing, Hangar1publishing, 3 Apr. 2024, https://hangar1publishing.com/blogs/cryptids/lake-tota-monster?srsltid=AfmBOoorPDSMR3OK0P_KLUeHuVaRhaxcKtgF6Jo6zkUVJ33gnli6iB2O.

Roberts, James. “Monster of Lake Tota: Colombia’s Mythic Serpent of the Andes– Hangar1publishing.” Hangar1publishing, Hangar1publishing, 28 Mar. 2024, https://hangar1publishing.com/blogs/cryptids/monster-of-lake-tota?srsltid=AfmBOooTgoR8lA5w-0_8bXJbNKMPBhVuzR7i2KouuRkg9vDzbQg-FSQk.

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