Sea Serpents

Lake Ontario Monster Chases Pair

The Oswego Palladium reports that Leroy Johnson and his son, Orville, of R.D. 6, Oswego, report seeing a medium-sized sea serpent in the water of Lake Ontario off Nine Mile creek, last week. The supposed sea serpent looked like a large snake. The senior Johnson was fishing in the lake and had waded out to knee depth when he saw the serpent and he immediately beat it for shore. The animal chased him for some distance and then disappeared.Fulton [New York] Patriot, June 23, 1920 Thanks to Jerome Clark. Coming, April 24th – Mysterious America.

Monster Winds Blow In New England

Power is going off and on here in Portland, Maine. Heavy rains and winds. Snow from last night has disappeared. Can you imagine running the Boston Marathon in this? Baseball season has been delayed for many schools due to wet fields, for weeks. At least the kids aren’t out in this today, trying to get to school. It’s Patriot’s Day here, so there is no school on Monday the 16th, and for the rest of the week too. It’s April school vacation week in New England. Of the coast, old Cassie, our local Sea Serpents, must think this is a [...]

Edward Waite Encounters Sea Serpent

Saw a Sea Serpent The officers and crew of the schooner Edward Waite, of Portland, Me., which arrived at this port recently, are positive that they fell in with a genuine sea serpent on the voyage from Cardenas [Cuba] to this city with a cargo of sugar. The vessel was yesterday docked at South street wharf, and the bronzed-faced mate, William Page, who has been a sailor for thirty years, told the story of the remarkable adventure in a straightforward manner: “Our voyage,” said he, “from Cardenas to Cape Hatteras was uneventful. We passed that point and were more than [...]

Horse-headed Sea Serpent Seen

Published in a California newspaper: Sea Serpents Visits the Indians Up North Victoria [British Columbia], April 14. — Officials of the cabin station at Bamfield are speaking of the story that a sea serpent from forty to sixty feet long and with a head like a horse has been seen off the station. The cabin operators say, in letters to the local newspapers, that Indians had been telling of the existence of a sea serpent, but the stories were not credited. David Osborne, one of the officials, says that a week ago the animal was seen from the cable station [...]