Unsolved Histories: A Giant Turtle, A Stubborn Man, and Dredging Up a Myth
By B.J. Hollars
In March of 1949 the town of Churubusco, Indiana (population 1,200) made national headlines as a result of a turtle sighting in the murky waters surrounding Fulk Lake. This wasn’t just any turtle, but a turtle of monstrous proportions—400 or so pounds of skin and shell, as big as a car, or close.