On This Day in Weird, September 25...
1808: A classic globster, the "Stronsay Beast,"
washes ashore on the island of Stronsay (then spelled "Stronsa") in
the Orkney Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland, following a storm. The
carcass measures 55 feet, with part of its tail clearly missing. While
initially believed to be a sea serpent, by 1849 general consensus labels the
creature a decomposed basking shark—although the largest official specimen of
that species known to science measured only 40 feet.
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