History & local legend
Wolf Pond in Dauphin County has a serpent story collected by Charles M. Skinner in the 1890s. He dated the encounter to September 1887, when a fisherman saw a long creature uncoiling beside his boat.
Skinner’s description was unusually specific: a black body roughly thirty feet long but only six inches thick, marked with yellow bands, and a mottled green head shaped like a pike’s. The fisherman struck it with his pole.
The creature retaliated by overturning the boat, then descended into the pond without attacking the man further.
