The Lead Tube & Giant Eels
Before that, back in 1935, the mayor of Newport, Frank D. Burns, disappeared and was presumed drowned. Divers looking for his body said they had seen giant "eels six to eight feet long and as thick as a man's thigh."
Goonyak & The Lead Tube
Game wardens speculated that someone might have seen the skinned carcass of a bear. Something like that could appear half-human at a glance. In any event, they guessed, the myth was probably conjured up by a deer hunter.
And Morris Shulham was a deer hunter.