It has come to news that Kevin Pearce, the Olympic snowboard hopeful and also Burton Global Team Rider has been seriously injured.

Reportedly he was injured when he was practicing at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, when hitting his head on the wall of the half-pipe, on Thursday afternoon.

According to The New York Times, Pearce was taken to the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, and underwent immediate surgery, to relieve fluid which had built up around his brain.

He was still coming off a concussion which he sustained earlier in the month, while he was competing in a qualifying run at the Copper Mountain Grand Prix

His agent Sue Izzo, his agent said there were no other details to be released. While his parents Simon and Pia are on their way to Salt Lake City from their home in Norwich to be with their son.

His website has been inundated with viewers almost making it impossible to view, and meanwhile on Twitter numerous tributes and well wishes are voicing their thoughts for the Snowboarding star.

Other reports had the creature looking anything from a walrus to a dinosaur and others as a large carp. The last known report of a sighting was in 2004.  The Bear  Bear Lake monster also found fame in the Animal Planet’s “Lost Tapes”.

The story actually started with a man known simply as “Uncle Marty.” Supposedly on the afternoon of August 12, 2007 , Uncle Marty first spotted the monster while shotgunning his third Keystone Light. “As I bit down on the bottom of the can, you know . . . for the shotgun, I saw this giant snake just poke up out of the water. Well I threw down my brewskie, right into the sand and ran to the water.”

Although there were no other witnesses to the sighting, the family who had helped consume gallons of booze ,swear they all saw the beast.

All i can say about this whole story, is it sounds like a bad movie, but if it is real let’s hope it comes up next time and eats someone just like Uncle Marty.

Looks like the Bear Lake Monster mystery still lives on.