Sea Serpents & Monsters (General; Miscellaneous)

[lordmongrove]

The monster of Lake Tota.

 

[lordmongrove]

Film about the Bear Lake Monster.

 

[lordmongrove]

Bear Lake Monster witness interview

 

[lordmongrove]

Bear Lake Monster Interview 2

 

[lordmongrove]

The Cape Sable Island sea serpent.

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021...BLGx6fyhP_6PzeTe6N4b7pEwFaXdml7f9drWlJyagMnyM

 

[lordmongrove]

Description sounds very odd, unlike others.

 

[lordmongrove]

Footage of Storsjöodjuret, the Lake Storsjön monster? It looks very like a big eel but no frame of reference for size.

https://www.tv4.se/artikel/3JStN88t...ZEJ-I_Lm4S_3w8bOWZFa5ng3KKFnkp30i_5c0RmJivDsA

 

[Sharon Hill]

Footage of Storsjöodjuret, the Lake Storsjön monster? It looks very like a big eel but no frame of reference for size.

https://www.tv4.se/artikel/3JStN88t...ZEJ-I_Lm4S_3w8bOWZFa5ng3KKFnkp30i_5c0RmJivDsA

It's weird to put the moniker of "monster" on this creature. It does bug me that once the legend gets established in a location, every odd thing, no matter if it fits the original description well or not, is lumped into "sightings". Eels apparently exist in the lake but not what you can typically catch. https://www.ifiske.se/en/fishing-storsjon-i-jamtland.htm

I'm inclined to say the legend is the legend, not an actual animal, and that this is a nice eel.

 

[lordmongrove]

It's weird to put the moniker of "monster" on this creature. It does bug me that once the legend gets established in a location, every odd thing, no matter if it fits the original description well or not, is lumped into "sightings". Eels apparently exist in the lake but not what you can typically catch. https://www.ifiske.se/en/fishing-storsjon-i-jamtland.htm

I'm inclined to say the legend is the legend, not an actual animal, and that this is a nice eel.

Yep, does look like a big fat eel. A monster is what you make it. A leopard is a leopard in Asia or Africa. Put it in a wood in Britain it becomes a 'monster' or a 'beast'. Strange really.

 

[CALGACUS03]

I'm a member of a Facebook group for my home town that shares old photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. This popped up on it on Friday:

Apparently from the Berwickshire News and General Advertiser, 5th June 1934. A few further details would have been welcome.
Probably just whales, of course.

 

[Kondoru]

How often are big whales seen in the North Sea?

 

[Nosmo King]

How often are big whales seen in the North Sea?

They are not that common due to the fact that the north sea is comparatively shallow and most whale feed in deep water.

Average depth: 95 m (312 ft)

Max. depth: 700 m (2,300 ft)

 

[CALGACUS03]

Sei, Minke and Humpback whales and Orca have been seen just up the coast in the Firth of Forth Link to Google search although they aren't common there by any means.

 

[maximus otter]

They are not that common due to the fact that the north sea is comparatively shallow and most whale feed in deep water.

Average depth: 95 m (312 ft)

Max. depth: 700 m (2,300 ft)

Sea depth (in feet) off UK coast at Burnmouth:

maximus otter

 

[lordmongrove]

Could be leatherback turtles.

 

[Nosmo King]

Could be leatherback turtles.

There were 3 specimens caught in the north east in 1956.

"DURING the late summer of 1956, three specimens of the leathery turtle or luth, Dermochelys coriacea (L.), were captured by Norwegian fishing vessels."

https://www.nature.com/articles/179163a0

 

[lordmongrove]

In a past issue of FT Theo Pajamans wrote about supposed sightings of sea serpents with fins or wings. I've been looking through my back issues but i cant find the article. Can anyone remember which issue it was in?

 

[RaM]

There was a big leather back washed up dead in Fleetwood harbour a few years back,
took a JCB to move it, hadn't been dead long, think it's shell may be in Fleetwood
Nautical Museum.

 

[lordmongrove]

I think he may have filmed something odd but i'd bet good money its not a neo-plesiosaur
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/c...KCzFJudC4mNR2ilkLeHp7cRVBCYrQEvPr9PtRc1J1E2R0

 

[lordmongrove]

Llyons falls monster and sasquatch.

 

[Frideswide]

In a past issue of FT Theo Pajamans wrote about supposed sightings of sea serpents with fins or wings. I've been looking through my back issues but i cant find the article. Can anyone remember which issue it was in?

did you find it @lordmongrove ?

 

[lordmongrove]

did you find it @lordmongrove ?

No not yet, been through all the back issues i could get my paws on.

 

[lordmongrove]

The Stinson Beach sea serpent
https://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.c...kx6nhqZXzwGZbeO47YgeWWUGJjpATxuIkJWvCju7aWLGY

 

[lordmongrove]

The sea monster of Kodiak Island.
https://kodiakmaritimemuseum.blogsp...5bHcw6e4TkrOEtgA3Hqt7Mf_GyvL52lR6zpzkh40ob7Ak

 

[lordmongrove]

Sea monster belief highlighted by Staffordshire globe find​

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-59592917

Its a stylized whale.

 

[Tunn11]

So sea monsters are real but Australia isn't??

 

[Kondoru]

Of course it isnt.

Its a theoretical continent made up to balance the ones in the northern Hemisphere.

And Black Swans live there, an obvious impossibility as the Classicists told us.

 

[lordmongrove]

New Zealand sea monsters.
https://www.fatemag.com/post/sea-se...vZyPKiJaOVHFcN4UsjCT2cygiLSUk1XESH_x1Z7P5u-Hk

I think out of place Indo-pacific crocodiles make a better bet than latter day mososaurs.

 

[Mouldy13]

New Zealand sea monsters.
https://www.fatemag.com/post/sea-se...vZyPKiJaOVHFcN4UsjCT2cygiLSUk1XESH_x1Z7P5u-Hk

I think out of place Indo-pacific crocodiles make a better bet than latter day mososaurs.

salt water crocs have regularly been seen far out to sea. They are massive!! we saw a few when we were over in Australia a few years ago, some of them have backs the width of mini cars. They made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, there's definitely something quite primeval about them.

 

[lordmongrove]

salt water crocs have regularly been seen far out to sea. They are massive!! we saw a few when we were over in Australia a few years ago, some of them have backs the width of mini cars. They made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, there's definitely something quite primeval about them.

Yes, utterly deadly they take down sharks, tigers and water buffalo. Biggest one measured was 28 feet 4 inches but their have been sightings of bigger ones.