Fig. 1: Artistic interpretation of the prehistoric amphibian reptile entombed in an iceberg. Image: Thomas Finley (200X).

Beaked monster lizard of Glacier Island, 1930

Introduction On November 10, 1930, Jerry O’Leary, a Fox farmer, and his employee Charles Gibson discovered the remains of a purportedly colossal and prehistoric, lizard-like creature with fur, approximately 1,500 feet from the shore in Eagle Bay, Glacier Island, Alaska. Based on multiple reports, the creature in question measured varyingly …

Fig.1. The Easthaven monster of December 1977 (The shark at Easthaven?, 1977). The kneeing man beside it could be photographer David Henderson of Dundee (Jackie Arcari, personal communication, January 9, 2021).

Monster on Easthaven beach, 1977

Introduction East Haven (also: Easthaven) is a fishing village near to the city Carnoustie in the council area of Angus, Scotland, Great Britain. In December 1977 a “monster”, “mystery corpse” or “prehistoric animal” washed up here on the shore, lying in seaweed. Though, the mystery apparently lasted not too long …

Picture of the original sketch of Charles Rankin of the carcass. Attached to a letter to Dr Stephen and later also shown during the interview in “Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World”. (Courtesy of Christine Baird for National Museums Scotland. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/NMSlibraries/status/1200385620540981248).

Gourock sea serpent, 1942

Introduction The town of Gourock is located on the southwest coast of Scotland, in the upper Firth of Clyde, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. In close proximity to Gourock, at the anchorage of the Tail of the Bank, the British Home Fleet was stationed during the Second World War. …

Fig. 2. Sea serpent dragon “head” of Ningpo, China. (From “Marine snake head from China”, 1905. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Used according to § 51 Urheberrechtsgesetz).

The sea serpent dragon’s head of Ningpo, 1905

Introduction In 1905 the head of a supposed “sea serpent” was brought to Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. William Herbert Melton Ayres originally bought it from a fisherman of Ningpo, China, and related it to the legendary dragons of China. Speculations about its true nature so far ranged from dragon or descendant …

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The blog’s topic This non-commercial, popular-scientific blog is about dead sea monster, sea serpents, whatsit, whazzit, globster, blobs, pseudo-plesiosaur and-octopus, dinosaur or …

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