On This Day in Weird, June 20...
1815: Captain Elkanah Finney watches a sea serpent through
his telescope, off the coast of Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, later writing: "I
then had a good view of him through my glass, at the distance of a quarter of a
mile. His appearance in this situation was like a string of buoys. I saw
perhaps thirty or forty of these protuberances or bunches, which were about the
size of a barrel. The head (the front part being visible above the water) appeared
to be about six or eight feet long, and where it was connected with the body
was a little larger than the body. His head tapered off to the size of a
horse's head….What I supposed to be his under jaw had a white stripe extending
the whole length of the head, just above the water. While he lay in this
situation, he appeared to be about a hundred or a hundred and twenty feet
long."
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