tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post3691089214766550037..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: LINDSAY SELBY: Sea monsters and opportunities missedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-8185034645996971132011-03-29T12:32:59.934+01:002011-03-29T12:32:59.934+01:00scary or not, I would love to see one :-)scary or not, I would love to see one :-)Tabitcahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00685620846174596978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-5568169852455873862011-03-28T22:12:48.065+01:002011-03-28T22:12:48.065+01:00I remember when we discussed the Castillian report...I remember when we discussed the Castillian report before, Lindsay. If this newest report is the same sort of creature, raising its head two mwtres out of the water is not like a graceful swanlike neck because the head can be six feet thick or more.<br /><br />This is the biggest type of "Sea-Serpents" I regularly recognise, The Whale Eater, the Monongahela crature, the same as Shuker's Leviathan. It IS supposed to grow to over a hundred feet long, but only a bit over that, and 129 feet is probably a bit of an exaggeration-500 feet more of an exaggeration but still within the standard range of size estimates for the reports. 250 to 500 feet long sounds really incredible but the real length would still be over a hundred feet.<br /><br />I have reliable reports of such a creature being seen around Ireland and when we started this discussion, you had posted a report off California. More recently, Russian whalers have reported them chasing schools of whales in the Antarctic oceans. They are evidently an arresting and impressive sight. Their bodies are serpentine and can be seen writhing in great horizontal semicircles flat on the surface, which undoubtedly makes them look even longer. And several professional whalers did not mind saying that seeing such a creature made them very much afraid.<br /><br />The head is reported as being as much as fifteen feet long and the great crocodile-like mouth splits the head in two so that the gape of the mouth at widest is twenty-five feet or more. And from all the reports what it like st eat is whales-calves commonly but up to fully-grown female orcas and pilot whales for a preference. It will also take moderately-large sharks. It swallows its prey whole. Pretty scary notion, hmm?<br /><br />Jewish legends also state that the Leviathan feeds on the great whales. The legend exaggerates the size of both the Leviathans and the whales, but the idea is still there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com