Gole Alcantara are in the valley of the same name in Eastern Sicily (between Messina and Catania). Some have reported seeing here "the local Loch Ness Monster [...]. Around here, we call it 'u Sugghiu', perhaps because its shape resembles the sturdy wooden cylinder (called 'subbio', in Italian) used in old looms, around which the threads of the warp are wrapped [...].

Some say that its powerful, shrill and piercing call – halfway between a donkey's bray and a pig's grunt – is its scream of ancestral nostalgia for the depths of the sea, where his species used to live in the beginning of time, for which he now searches in rivers, lakes, and swamps..." (M. Fiume, "Sicilia esoterica", Newton Compton, Rome 2013).

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Fonte: Italian Ways