http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05022004/utah/162554.asp

The elder Young had taken their affidavits, Briggie said, "being determined to sift this matter to its uttermost grain, and ascertain whether of a truth it be an honest tale of a serpent, or only a fish story." These men, whom Brigham Junior says "were impossible to deceive in such a matter, all depose and say that they jointly and severally beheld dashing through the waters of Bear Lake a monstrous-looking creature, with a head like the head of a horse, projecting far out of the water, and a body apparently stretching back many yards to the rear, and lashing the water into a terrible foam."

(via Professor Hex)