Elderly Resident Remembers Moon Mammoth As “Kind Of A Jerk”

With renewed attention on the Lake Pleasant Mammoth, Gooferie reporters spoke to longtime resident of the area, Oliver Johnson. “I’m 97 years old, and I’ve lived on the shore of Lake Pleasant my whole life. I certainly remember Willie the mammoth, well, that’s what we called him, no one ever knew his real name. Truth is, we didn’t much care for Willie. He was a mean S.O.B. Knew he was a biggun and threw his weight around.”   When asked to elaborate, Johnson recalled a time he was fishing with his cousin. “Willie waded out into the water and started flailing around and tipped over our boat!” Johnson added that Willie would go on “stomping tirades” that left the quaint lakeside community in constant fear of being trampled. “He was so ornery, if you even looked at him the wrong way, he’d charge at you and stick his tusks where the sun don’t shine! He also destroyed old Mrs. Moon’s prized hydrangea garden one summer. Got Mr. Moon all riled up. Said he was gonna fix the problem. Never saw Willie again after that. When I asked Mr. Moon what happened to Willie, he just said that he is now ‘sleeping with the fishes’, whatever that means.”