When I was about 7 or 8 my friends and i would play in the woods near the neighborhood, to get to the woods you would have to cross a drain in the middle of the road that you could look down into. One of these days on my way back from the woods I stopped on my way over the drain and stared at this purple-ish long necked creature with it's neck slightly twisted and staring at me. The neck would have to be about 3 feet long, the rest of it's body was in the water. After we stared at eachother for about half a minute he sunk back into the water and I never saw it again. Any similar sightings and/or comments?