He Found A Sea Serpent
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 5th, 2011
Here is an interesting report of a miniature Sea Serpent for Montana, 1901. Of course, it would not be a “Sea Serpent,” at all, but a Lake Monster.
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Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana]
July 2, 1901
HE FOUND A SEA SERPENT
A Glass of Butte Water Reveals a New and Strange Reptile.
A STARTLING DISCOVERY
Clerk in A. B. Rombauer’s Assay Office
Thought He Had `Em, but It Was the Real Thing and He Feels Better Now.
The people in the concern of A. B. Rombauer, assayer, on Wyoming street [in Butte], are not drinking water any more. That is, not until they have put
it through a process of analysis as thorough and minute as that which they
treat the minerals brought them for disintegration. When one of their
number takes a drink of aqua now he first puts it through microscopic
examination to see if it is pure. They are firmly convinced that Butte
water is buggy.
By some accident one of the men in the office examined a glass full of water the other day before drinking it and happened to discover something which did not look good to him. It was about a quarter of an inch long and looked like a piece of very active sawdust. It lumped itself in the middle, wiggled that which by rights should be a tail and shot venomous glances of a rainbow variety from its front windows.
Procuring a powerful microscope, the modern Columbus took a closer look and let out a yell that could have been heard a mile. With trembling hands he sat the glass down and performed the same operation for himself. Pressing his hands to his head, he tried to figure out whether he could reach the nearest bar or not. The thing which had paralyzed his vision was a miniature sea serpent. It had eyes and a tail, a shaggy mane and other interesting reptilian features which are supposed to be familiar to those who are wont ever and anon to pour warm, red booze into their frames.
The reptile was shown to a reporter who, much to the astonishment of the exhibitor, evidenced no surprise, and discussed the various points of the
creature in a familiar manner.
The man who invents a pocket filter suitable to the needs of a confirmed water drinker will find a market at one place in Butte anyway.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
This has got to the most overly written article I have ever had the displeasure to read. I was hanging in there at first and was able to control the headache I could feel coming on until this sentence “It lumped itself in the middle, wiggled that which by rights should be a tail and shot venomous glances of a rainbow variety from its front windows.” That is when my brain had enough and I could no longer hold back the headache. I bravely continued on through the rest of the article but at the end I realized I had made a dreadful mistake and my head is now pounding with pain.
Don’t get me wrong, It’s good that by some accident Mr. Rombauer found a microscopic sea serpent shaped like a lively piece of saw dust in his drinking water and that he took the time to share his prized find. I just wish someone else would have written about it.
My head!!
Greetings All!
Sounds like “Sea Monkeys” to me!
It sounds eerily similar to merhorse cryptids! But it was probably some microscopic organism…like sea monkeys 😮