Case file · Cryptid
Storsjön lake serpent first recorded
A 1635 manuscript by the priest Morten Pedersen Herdal contains the earliest known description of a serpent in Storsjön, Jämtland.
1635 CE · 63.20, 14.50 · status: legend
The account
The legend was repeated in Anders Plantin's 1685 report to the national antiquities survey. Local lore tied the monster to a spell carved on the Frösö runestone.