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st. croix avis (christiansted, st. croix [v.i.]) 1844-current — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1889-02-02
Location: christiansted, virgin islands, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: st. croix avis (christiansted, st. croix [v.i.]) 1844-current · 1889-02-02 · page 3
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1889-02-02 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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... all been arrested, The Latest Sea Serpent Story. Class the sea serpent no more as myth, It 'will never moie be a creature of romance, veiled in uncertainty and obsenrity. It is low a leality. Capt. Paul Boyton has added another chaplet to his brow—one that promises to establish this aquatio genius as the greatest of marine wonder discoveres, Boyton has caught a sea serpent, and his triends are mad with glee, Yenterday morning the steamship Lotho nay ot the Heury Brothers’ line brought into Baltimore a huge and veritable sea serpent, sixty feet in length, three feet and one inch in diameter, ard, asx Boyton puts it, “sowething awful to see.” Last night the ...

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