Old Sea Serpent Sighting
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 7th, 2007
A Monster in the Sound
The Portchester Journal assumes the responsibility for this story:
“Last Friday [August 10, 1877], while a gentleman and lady were sailing on the Sound, between Byram shore and Captain’s Island light, their attention was attracted by a queer hissing noise, and a roaring sound, and they soon discovered, not an eighth of a mile distant, a monster of the deep advancing rapidly. This monster stood up straight, was apparently as large round as a hogshead, and showed an enormous head and exhibited not less than fifteen or twenty feet of his length. Her advanced a short distance in this upright manner, when, with a roar and a hiss, he sank completely out of sight, only to reappear in a few moments uncomfortably near the boat. No wonder the party made haste for the shore, and were soon out of harm’s way. The monster evidently is neither whale, porpoise nor shark, and what it is is still an open question. Our informants are trustworthy people, and not given to telling fish stories.”South Side Signal, Babylon, New York, August 18, 1877
Thanks for this historical item from Jerome Clark.
Thank you all for these successful initial weeks of the 2007 release of MA, which will make it easier for anyone looking for specific reports and writing these books. Appreciation.
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.
Nice piece!
Nice one. Sounds like a breathtaking experience, the stuff that nightmares are made from..
I agree it’s truly nightmare material, but isn’t this the kind of nightmare you’d just love to live through? Or is that something odd about myself? lol.
UK Cryptid- nope, you’re not the only one who’d love to live through something like that 🙂
Anytime my dad and I go hiking, I am always hoping inside for some kind of sighting. Even though we don’t hike or kayak in any areas that there have been sightings (that I know of at least)- there’s a first time for everything and I always look in the distance for bipedal beasts, and in the sky for a glimpse of a flying reptilian ^_^
The lakes we go on with the kayak are, I think, too small for housing any ‘monsters’- and do not connect to any larger bodies of water so I doubt I’ll ever get to see a lake creature around here.
I love reading old stories like this, b/c for some reason I find them more credible than the modern sightings.
Now-a-days people are way too creative, money & fame hungry, and we have all the technology to make realistic looking fake photos and videos.
So I usually find sightings from the past a lot more believable than the new stuff 🙂
Interesting…for several reasons.
Thanks Loren!
That alleged sea monster has a mammalian appearance