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Sunday, April 13, 2014

CRYPTOLINK: Tales of a Sea Serpent

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 
Every few years, Cape locals are fired up over the Pamet Puma which has been sighted from time to time in Truro. Another earlier fantastic sighting occurred in 1886, when the Provincetown Town Crier, George Washington Ready, saw a huge creature rise out of the surf as he was walking over the Province Lands Dunes one morning. In one news report, Ready said “it was 300 feet long, more or less! Had a head as big as a 200-gallon cask! Six eyes, as large as good-sized dinner plates that rose from the body.” Since Ready was hiding behind a sand dune, he was able to study the creature. According to Ready, it had “a mouth that disclosed four great rows of teeth and a tusk that extended from the nose at least eight feet.” He also described its terrible sulphurous scent and intense heat that seemed to scorch the surrounding terrain.
Many newspapers of the day published accounts of this rare sighting. Even the New York Times carried an article entitled “Provincetown; Capt. Ready is Ready with his Regular Sea Serpent Tale” (June 26, 1910). An article published in the Cape Cod Times in 1992 by Hamilton Kahn references an even earlier sighting in Provincetown. A fleet of shore-whalemen in 1719 confronted an “unidentified, large species.” An eyewitness account by B. Franklin, an uncle of Ben Franklin, saw a creature 16 feet long, with a long beard and short yellowish tail, which “fled to deep water after being wounded three times by the whalers’ harpoons.”
- See more at: http://blogs.capecodonline.com/cape-cod-history/2014/04/04/tales-of-a-sea-serpent-2/#sthash.ZBI5h4Bi.dpuf

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