![The “sea monster” with young Don Best (age 6-8) in the background at Rockaway Beach (Best, 2017. Courtesy of Don Best Photography).](http://globsterblobsandmore.com/wp-40f33-content/uploads/2018/08/Don-Best-Rockaway-sea-monster-268x200.jpg)
Sea monster beached at Rockaway, 1951
Introduction Rockaway Beach is a city in Tillamook County in the West coast state of Oregon, USA. In July 1951 a “sea monster” washed up here on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, just opposite to Twin Rock. Seemingly only one newspaper-article was published in local press, which provided no …