Altie

The Altie is a cryptid from margatian folklore. The Altie is known for being a strange sea-mammal with a long tail, with a leaf-shaped flap with a barrel-shaped body, two flippers, and a tannish-color.

Sightings/Sighted
The earliest known sighting was in Auzua, in 1878, where a sailor named Mike was fishing when he saw a strange object in the water. He knew that it should not be there. But then he saw the tail of an animal. This was an animal he had never seen before. He said that the creature was tan colored, had two flippers, a barrel-shaped body, and a strange head, similar to that of a seal. He soon reported his sighting. And needless to say, his story was by many as a hoax. But in reality, he did, in fact, see a creature.

Another sighting happened in 1891, where four penguins on a boat where rowing in a river in North Bank when they saw strange movement in the water. They saw a strange tail with a weird flap at the end, and they were surprised to be an animal. They did not mind, that it was an animal but saw that it had a strange body, with two flippers and a strange head. They noticed it was getting near their boat, until they made a warning move with one of their rows, making it startled and swam away.

Length
15 to 30 feet; a baby about two feet long and a juvenile about twelve feet long (eating crab in the shallows of a creek) have also been reported.

Weight
The weight of the Altie is unknown since no one has been able to actually capture it and has evaluated its weight.

Country
To find this cryptid, you will need to travel to Margate where you will find it practically everywhere, as it was sighted in Auzua, then in North Bank than in the rest of the south of Margate. It is usually found in every water-based geography terms, such as oceans and seas around Margate, fjords, lakes, creeks, and rivers.

Diet
Seaweed, Sea Grass, Fish, Penguins, and Rocks

Physical Characteristics
Eyewitnesses reports suggest it is about twenty feet long and dark-colored (at times light colored) with an alligator-like snout, the smooth skin of an eel, and tire-tread-like ridges on it's back, and dark/light-colored. It is said to move its tail up and down like a porpoise rather than back and forth like a fish. Many eyewitnesses have claimed that the creature swims right up to small boats.