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priscilla 1Sea Serpent
December 8th 2008 11:36
A sea serpent from Olaus Magnus's book History of the Northern Peoples (1555).
A sea serpent, also known as a sea dragon are creatures which for centuries have been believed to live in the deep dark depths of the ocean, occasionally rising to the surface to reek havoc on sea going vessels and their crew. Over the last few hundred years there have been over 1000 reported sightings of sea serpents, yet there is no actual hard evidence of their existence.
The first American sea serpent, reported from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in 1639.
Sightings of sea serpents differ from those of the Loch Ness monster because rather than been seen by one person for a few seconds, some have been seen by hundreds of people over a few hours and were well documented in newspapers. The only problem is, all of these mass sightings occurred before photography was in common use.
Albert Koch's 114-foot long "Hydrarchos
'saw a most terrible creature, resembling nothing they saw before. The monster lifted its head so high that it seemed to be higher than the crow's nest on the mainmast. The head was small and the body short and wrinkled. The unknown creature was using giant fins which propelled it through the water. Later the sailors saw its tail as well. The monster was longer than our whole ship'
Sea serpent reported by Hans Egede, Bishop of Greenland, in 1734.
Most cryptozoologists dismiss these reports as misidentifications or outright hoaxes. However there may be some truth to a few of them....
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