On Sunday night’s Morton Through Midnight show the regular
cryptozoology feature Morton’s Mystery Creatures focused on a classic Scottish
sea serpent report.
It was a clear, fine evening in 1882 when the captain and
crew of the German steamer Kätie, en route from New York to Newcastle, sailing
about eight miles off the Butt of Lewis, sighted something ahead in the water.
Captain Weisz recorded that there was a dark object lying on
the surface of the water about 2 miles from the ship. At first it was thought
to be an abandoned wreck, the highest part being the bow, the rest resembling
the jumbled waterlogged remains of a ship. As the Kätie got nearer the crew
could see the water eddying round it as though moving over something large
beneath the surface.
On getting nearer however, it became clear it wasn't an
abandoned vessel they were seeing. Now the dark, hilly mass resembled dangerous
rocks and cliffs. The captain, being familiar with the area, knew there were no
such dangers in the vicinity, and so the mystery deepened.
The object lay quite still for some time; then out of the
water rose a fin about ten feet in height, reckoned to be about 80 feet from the
visible end. This fin moved a few times while the body gradually sank below the
surface of the water; the highest end then rose up and was seen to be a tail of
enormous dimensions.
The visible part of the creature was estimated to measure
about 150 feet in length; the hills or humps, which were from three to four feet in
height, and about six or seven feet apart, were smaller towards the tail. No head was
observed before the creature disappeared from sight.
You can listen to this show on the following link morton through midnight it is an hour and seven minutes into the show
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