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Seneca Lake Folklore
The physical characteristics of Seneca Lake have influenced many native legends about it. It's extreme depth and volume (re-use citation 2) have given birth to tales of the sea serpent and rumored underground tunnels. As the second-longest Finger Lake, stories have been created to explain the Lake Drums, or the Echo of Agayentah.

The Sea Serpent
The Native Americans of the Finger Lakes area have long had legends of a sea serpent living in the lake, but it wasn't until 1900 that the locals began to have their own "encounters" with the beast. On July 15, 1900, passengers of the sidewheel steamboat, the Otetiani, came abreast what they thought was a boat wreckage. The passengers included Captain Carleton C. Herendeen, Pilot Frederick Rose, members of the board of public works, a police commissioner, and a geologist.