Have You Ever Seen Ice Move Like This? Check Out This ‘Machias River Monster’…

This past weekend, a local lobster fisherman from Whitneyville named Bill Bishko spotted something unusual in the waters of the Machias River. He uploaded a video of what he witnessed to his Facebook Page.

The "Machias River Ice Monster," as he nicknamed it, seemed to glide like a snake through the water.

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"My wife and I walk the dog on the trail everyday. I definitely did a double take when I first saw it! We watched it for 20 minutes or so. I've seen a lot of ice over the years, never seen it move quite like that before."

He posted the video on Saturday, January 17th, and folks immediately started to weigh in on what they thought it could be.

Many pointed out that while it did undulate back and forth, it never gained any forward momentum, so it was likely something akin to a frozen stick or piece of rope.

This is not the first time something funky has been spotted "swimming" in frozen waters. About a decade ago, an official with the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska caught something he couldn't explain, moving in an unusual way, in the Chena River.

So what could be making ice move like this? Could it be an underwater creature? Or could this phenomenon be caused by something more natural than supernatural?

According to the Natural Snow and Ice Data Center, the culprit could be a type of ice known as "Frazil" ice.

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Sources online say that Frazil ice can sometimes appear to look like an animal moving through the water.

"Ice in rivers can look like snakes due to natural phenomena like frazil ice (slushy ice crystals) getting tangled in ropes or debris, creating long, moving forms that resemble a serpent, as seen in the viral 'Alaskan Ice Monster' video, or it can be snow and ice sheets sloughing off branches in snaking patterns, or even real snakes briefly moving on thawing ice, though these are usually smaller and not truly made of ice. "

Regardless of what it was, you've got to admit it's pretty cool looking.

Have you ever come across something cool in the ice?