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The Sailors and the Sea Serpent.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, August 24, 1833

Boston, July 26. A long conversation with the captain and crew of the brig Palos, of New York, which arrived here yesterday, leaves no doubt at all on our mind that they were in truth favored with a fair sight of the serpent, as stated in the morning papers. They were becalmed off the Graves, […]

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Sea Serpent.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, July 18, 1835

The Sea Serpent is occupying his old station off Cape Ann. The last examination made him 40 feet long, and of the diameter of a barrel; color, black; head flat, which it carried even with the water, while its body bent with the waves of the sea, and moved at the rate of four miles […]

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Fiery Flying Serpent.

Monday, October 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 13, 1841

Mr. N. M. Ward, a gentleman connected with the mission at Pedang, on the coast of Sumatra, has published a well-attested account of a flying serpent, seen by the narrator. He saw the animal fly from a tree at the height of fifty or sixty feet, to another some forty fathom distant. It supports itself […]

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A Seaman Who Saw A Veritable Sea Serpent.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 6, 1879

New York Times. Fourth Officer, F. G. Rowell, of the steamship Anchoria, of the Anchor line, which arrived at this point from Glasgow, late Sunday evening, says that on Thursday last, while on the Newfoundland banks, he saw a sea-serpent which he estimates to have been fully as long as the steamship. According to “Lloyd’s […]

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Sea Serpent.

Monday, August 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 20, 1879

A sea serpent, or rather river serpent, 100 feet long, with a head like a whale, a flat fantail, crusty fins and dark brown color, is vouched for by about 100 as having been seen repeatedly within a week off the mouth of a big St. Louis sewer.

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Sea Serpent, again.

Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Tuesday, May 29, 1821

Capt. Grows, of the brig Minerva, arrived at Bath on the 2nd, states, that on the preceeding Friday, between 5 and 6 o’clock, P. M. Cape Ann was a distant 15 miles, the sea quite smooth and a very light breeze, he saw very distinctly the Sea Serpent, about 40 yards from the vessel, steering […]

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Sea Serpent.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, December 15, 1827

To the Editor of the Commercial Journal. Quebec Trader, off South Islands of Arren, Galway Bay, Feb. 8, 1827. Sir-Having this favorable opportunity of transmitting to you the following wonderful occurrence, which may be the means of setting to rest all doubts as to the existence of a marine monster, supposed to be the sea […]

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The Old Serpent

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1825

An animal, supposed to be a sea-serpent, not less than sixty feet long, is said to have exhibited himself in Halifax harbor, to the gratification of many spectators. The time given for his appearance was the 15th July. But yet the people will not believe in the existence of “his royal” lengthiness of the mighty […]

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