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The Gloucester sea serpent is a legendary creature reportedly seen around and off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts and Cape Ann area in the United States. The heyday of sightings began in August 1817 and continued into 1818–1819. Described as a massive serpent-like creature with humps along its back, the Gloucester Sea Serpent has been ...
2 days ago · This depiction of the Gloucester sea serpent was created in the 1880s-1890s, per the Cape Ann Museum. The caption says it's "engraved from a drawing taken from Life" in an August 1817 sighting. If we were to ask you to name the possibly real water monster with humps, you’d surely say the Loch Ness ...
Revisiting the Mystery of the Great New England Sea Serpent of 1817. Sailing into Massachusetts’s Gloucester Harbor in August 1817, the skipper of a coasting vessel looked across choppy seas and ...
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The report by John Josselyn in 1638 is one of the earliest sightings of an animal that would haunt the coast of New England, and especially the port of Gloucester, for more than three centuries and be seen by hundreds of people. The report is of a creature that science says does not exist: A sea serpent. The harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts ...
The Gloucester Sea Serpent is a legendary creature reportedly seen around and off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts and Cape Ann area in the United States. The heyday of sightings began in August 1817 and continued into 1818-19. Early reports described the creature as a snake-like creature with a head as large as the head of a horse and a ...
Aug 22, 2017 · Trending Video. This August marks a landmark anniversary for Gloucester. Two hundred years ago reports began to arise of “an unusual fish or serpent” swimming in Gloucester Harbor. By at least ...
Jul 12, 2017 · The Gloucester sea serpent of 1817. The drawing comes from "Monsters of the Sea" by R. Ellis, published in 1994 by Robert Hale Ltd.
