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the wichita daily eagle (wichita, kan.) 1890-1906 — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1904-03-20
Location: wichita, kansas, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the wichita daily eagle (wichita, kan.) 1890-1906 · 1904-03-20 · page 24
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1904-03-20 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sea serpent”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... that while he spoke of "sea serpent,"fthe so called and oft-repeated sea serpent could not be a big snake, but some other kind of a monsterif it was anything). As back as far as Job mention is made of a great leviathan, and accounts of some great things are found in all early histories, ne myth seemse to have come from a sperm whale and another from the squid. Even the Indians had a belief in a monster serpent, and thought one lived in the grea lakes and broke up the ice in the winter when it became irritated. Professor Edwards gave a long list of dates when the great sea serpent has been reported ...

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