Like the opening act of a B-movie creature feature, the sightings of the snake now known as “Wessie” have played out in glimpses. The first report, toward the end of June, was that a snake as long as a truck with the head the size of a softball slithered past a children’s playground in Westbrook, Maine. This time, it took the form of a giant snake skin, discarded near the boat launch by the Presumpscot River. Unfortunately for Wessie, if the animal does exist, its chances of making it through a subzero Maine winter are not good. But unless someone – even a cryptozoologist tracker – can catch Wessie, Maine will turn out to be too chilly for the truck-length snake.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 12:56 UTC