[This is one of the most amazing and unbelievable stories I have ever seen on the Internet. If I had not seen the photos I would never have believed this was possible.

I received this in an email from a friend.

Take a look at this photo below… you might think you’re dealing with the Loch Ness Monster… What on earth could it be? Jan]

Well, here is the story which accompanied these photos. The story purports to be from a newspaper about a catfish in the Hartebeespoort Dam near Pretoria.

This was the accompanying story:-
This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Newspaper. A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the Hartebeespoort dam and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child’s basketball which became stuck in its mouth!!

The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface.

The resident tried numerous times to get the ball out, but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.

You probably wouldn’t have believed this, if you hadn’t seen the following pictures…