Lake Erie waves looking like mountains (Credit: Dave Sanford)

There's a wizard

The great lakes can get wild; all that wind swooping down from the NW and the water has no outlet that can handle the movement... under the right conditions it starts to reverberate.

Those waves are bigger than any "mountain" in the area

And that's Erie, the second smallest.
Superior on the other hand, well...
The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.