Research source

grand forks herald (grand forks, n.d.) 1916-1955 — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1920-06-21
Location: grand forks, north dakota, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: grand forks herald (grand forks, n.d.) 1916-1955 · 1920-06-21 · page 16
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

Record summary

A 1920-06-21 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.

Published source text

Read the available text below. Archive transcriptions may contain OCR errors; later context is labelled separately. A recorded claim is not a finding that it happened.

Source passage

Source text · mention only

... to be that the female sea serpents, whec A real sea serpent of long ago How Would You Like This Kind of Fly Trap? AN may be thinking or ju?t merely loafing. Flies and other winged insects, at tracted by its saliva, gather in swarins upon its tongue, just as though ^the No fewer than twenty-five species of' ready to lay their eggs or to bring forth the latter stayed in the rivers, or in these ancient^ sea serpents have been living young—nobody knows which the.v iakes beyond. ifruaai tttitaaa WW'.lCTif Copyright, 1019, yy Public l»edgei Co (o) Uy American Museum of Natural History. li(l*ran up rivers to accomplish this enough to cope with fierce ...

Historical context

Contextual commentary · mention only

This OCR excerpt may mix reporting, humour, folklore, syndicated copy, editorial comment and witness claims. Newspaper title, date and original page remain available for source-critical reading.

Modern context

Contextual commentary · mention only

Lattice can compare reported features across periods while preserving uncertainty, OCR limitations and the possibility of conventional explanation, exaggeration, copying or satire.

Investigate related details with Anomaly Graph’s account-based search, or read how matching and provenance work.