August 1, 2015
Some excellent comments from the Cryptomundians regarding Nick’s post: Profiling the Gloucester Sea Serpent
Matt Bille:
This episode has always been puzzling: it’s still puzzling: it may forever be puzzling. Even a cautious authority like Richard Ellis wrote that there seemed to be something strange going on. The oft-invoked explanation for “flaps” of odd occurrences, “contagion,” is a real thing, but it seems inadequate here. People weren’t reporting fuzzy things like nausea or moving lights in the sky: they were reporting big animals that had a generally consistent (though not perfectly consistent) appearance that puzzled men who’d spent much of their lives at sea. This is one of those extremely rare cases where I’d bet money that an unknown creature was involved.
springheeledjack
One of the coolest things about his sighting is that it may well have been the first recorded attempt to canvas and get a body of information about the sighting from a large group of people. It was an organized effort which means to me that the people involved definitely considered the sighting as more than just mass hallucination or some drunken (and apparently hallucinogenic as people seem to think) fancy.
It kills me how often sea serpent sightings are tossed off as drunken hallucinations. Have been an afficionado of beer and other alcoholic beverages over the years, I have yet to hallucinate, ever, let alone sea monsters.
In any case, even though they didn’t turn up the actual monster, they did some very quality investigative work among the locals.
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
Filed under Bigfoot Report, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Sea Monsters, Sea Serpents