A look at Lake Erie’s aliens and ‘spooky’ creatures

Halloween reminds some of Lake Erie’s strangest and spookiest creatures. Some are native to the Great Lakes, but others are by definition, “aliens” from elsewhere after being carried in ships or swimming through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Although there are smaller species of harmless native lampreys, the sea lamprey gained entrance into the four upper Great Lakes by swimming through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Nicknamed the vampire eel, parasitic lampreys have a round, tooth-filled mouth instead of true jaws like eels that rasp holes through the skin or scales of other fish to “drink” their bodily fluids.

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