Monsters, Serpents Discussed As Puzzling Legends, Realities

Land monsters and sea serpents exist in fact as well as fantasy, according to Robert K. Rosenbaum 3G, who lectured last night at a meeting of the Biology Club. Their existence has been known since before the times of Pliny the Elder, he said, but their occurrence has been sporadic, and none of them have ever been caught.

Science has tried to explain away most of the cases of reported monsters on the basis of facts known about living animals, but it is still stumped by several cases, Rosenbaum said. One of these is the Gloucester Harbor sea serpent, a 60-foot long humped back, snake-headed, smooth skinned piece of horror which appeared before hundreds of people on August 10, 1817.