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Even if the Lake Pend Oreille monster is a cover story perpetuated by the U.S. Navy to deflect attention from its hush-hush submarine tests, as some in the Pend Oreille area believe, it may have been an accidental one. It's possible that it never reached the level of official policy and that base personnel trotted it out only on an ad hoc basis. Loren Coleman, a long-time monster hunter and author of such tomes as Mysterious America, believes that the Pend Oreille lake monster may be a case of the tail wagging the dog, so to speak. "It seems almost as if there's been not an overt, but an accidental reinforcement of the notion that there may be a lake monster here," he explains. "I don't think there are any real sinister motives behind it. But between the denials, the kind of shifting around, and the secretiveness on the part of the Navy about their experiments on the one hand, and the townspeople saying, `Of course the Navy isn't going to tell you anything about it,' the lake monster cover would almost put itself into place."
Indeed, that may be the supernatural cover story's best asset. With the public's beliefs in the paranormal having grown so strong, it takes little or no effort to slide a supernatural cover into place. Where mystery lurks, the supernatural rushes in to fill the void and provide an explanation, one that's often much more interesting than the truth.
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