The founder of a New Orleans preschool is trying to identify a mysterious creature she caught on camera swimming in a lagoon at a city park.
Frusciante said she spotted the mysterious swimmer while walking in the park's Sculpture Garden with her family.
"We looked into the water and saw a mysterious serpent-like creature. It is nothing I have seen before land or sea," Frusciante told WGNO-TV. "The great people of the Internet seem to think it is a genetically modified carp fish created in a lab and released in City Park."
The teacher said she was shocked by the size of the animal.
"It was quite long. I have a 4-year-old slightly smaller than it and it was weaving on the surface, and a lot of scales, the tail was red and it was swishing around aimlessly hanging out on the surface much longer than a normal fish," she said.Frusciante said her preschool students are working to identify the creature.
"In our sea creature studies, and we haven't seen anything like this in our books. I am pretty well convinced that it is the Loch Ness monster of New Orleans," she said.