I have lived in Rhode island for almost 25 years. We have many waterways here, but I never have heard anything about any sightings of unusual and frightening sea creatures similar to "Nessie" -- until now.

It was described as "a 15-foot animal with greenish-leathery skin, a body the shape of a barrel, the head the shape of a basketball and long, finger-like teeth." Authorities claimed it may have been a sea lion! (Yeah, right.) Sea lion or not, it scared the heck out of a couple who were bathing at a beach in Portsmouth, on the Sakonet river on August 2. Newspaper coverage is limited to a short blurb, but radio and TV were a little more forthcoming.

Evidently a woman was swimming while her husband was on the beach. The man observed that this thing came up out of the water right near his wife. As she screamed and headed for shore, he bolted out into the water in order to distract whatever it was, even saying later that he was ready to die to protect his wife. The creature then disappeared. It was reported that he and his wife were very visibly shaken by the event, leading authorities to conclude that they did in fact see something. But as to the description of the "monster," they have their doubts.

In our book, Kwan Yin says that things like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster are only here temporarily. They are drawn in through interdimensional points and then leave. That is why no one seems to be able to locate them, and why they seem to disappear into thin air. While they are here, they are solid, 3-dimensional, and can be touched. If they died while in this dimension, their remains would be here.

She says that this is part of they way that we are being called to increase our awareness that there are other dimensions, and much more to our existence than we are usually aware of.