Teggie reports are few but persistent. The one most often quoted came from the lake's former manager, Dowie Bowen, in the 1970s. He described an animal at least eight feet long, like a crocodile, with its front and back ends showing about four inches above the surface.
Other reports followed. One witness in 1979 said the surface of the lake foamed and bubbled and a large hump-backed creature came up out of it. In 1995 two men described a small head on a long neck, the classic lake monster silhouette, standing about ten feet out of the water. Descriptions have ranged since then from a small dinosaur to a crocodile to an amphibian about twelve feet long.
The same year, 1995, a Japanese television crew spent three days on the lake with a miniature submarine looking for it. They found nothing. Sceptics point out that Llyn Tegid holds very large pike, which can look startling when they break the surface, and that the lake's more genuine claim to fame is the gwyniad, a small fish found nowhere else.
The lake also has a much older supernatural reputation, as the drowned site of a cruel prince's palace, recorded separately.
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