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daily inter mountain (butte, mont.) 1881-1901 — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1899-03-11
Location: butte, montana, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: daily inter mountain (butte, mont.) 1881-1901 · 1899-03-11 · page 15
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1899-03-11 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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... ed the skeleton of a sea serpent this last winter, which was fully twenty feet long. A preserved sea serpent In a Bowery museum was sixteen feet. Both of these animals had long sleek bodies covered with scales. At the sides were fins mak ing them very like a fish, although the big pointed head proclaimed the snake family. It has been suggested that the North American sea serpent is a species of the eel. An overgrown eel, perhaps. But on the other hand the sea serpent has characteristics which are foreign to tha eel family, and so the sea eel theory which is brought up annually must be aban doned. It can be said ...

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