tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post4736157296195764049..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: LINDSAY SELBY: Florida River MonsterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-35900443357357218292010-02-11T05:36:30.716+00:002010-02-11T05:36:30.716+00:00I lived in a neighborhood where a couple of sighti...I lived in a neighborhood where a couple of sightings of the "St. Johns Monster" were reported. There was a park popular for fishing that cleared out one afternoon when something surfaced off the bulkhead. I vividly remember the police arriving at the scene as the fisherfolk poured out into the street. They interviewed some hysterical witnesses or supposed witnesses but there was nothing unusual to see by the time they arrived. Reports of snail-like characteristics aside, most reports back then described a very large black snake not unlike many of the reports a bit farther north the Georgia coast in the Altamaha River. There haven't been a rash of sightings since.CenturySonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04203804597711166367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-87823136585883629772010-02-08T12:23:58.645+00:002010-02-08T12:23:58.645+00:00I have a blog entry on hold with Jon that has some...I have a blog entry on hold with Jon that has some earlier Florida sightings. In this case, I would suggest that the pink sightings are due to a shedding seal. More on that to come: the reports are actually very explicit about the shape, proportions and "giant turtle tracks" left by the creature, but the size in some of the reports seems much exaggerated.<br /><br />The reports I got from Ivan Sanderson's archives roughly cut off where your reports begin. The reports come from all around Florida, on both coasts. The reported length runs from 15 to 35 feet long, And Ivan Sanderson considered them LongNecks. But the thing about the reports is not that they are LongNecks, they are "Thicknecks" and with very large heads, sometimes said to look like hippo or rhino heads, sometimes with a horn on the snout, sometimes with a short trunk like a tapir.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com