 In 1946, eyewitnesses allegedly reported seeing a reptile-like animal swimming in the waters of the lake.It was called "lariosauro", the same name used a century before to name a prehistoric reptile whose fossilized remains were found by the lake ("Lariosaurus balsami").A weekly of Como, a week after the first article, wrote it was a sturgeon, but the sturgeon as well as the monster appear to be more simply a hoax invented by the press.