the salt lake herald (salt lake city [utah]) 1870-1909 — sea serpent
- Date of account
- Newspaper page published 1908-08-16
- Location
- salt lake city, utah, united states
- Source
- Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
- Reference
- the salt lake herald (salt lake city [utah]) 1870-1909 · 1908-08-16 · page 28
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English OCR
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
A 1908-08-16 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
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Source passage
Source text · mention only... many manysea man manIlea manysea sea serpents as there are persors feelingthat feeling feelingthat feellnathat that way waySecond waySecond waySecond I Second mate said this morning Seethat See Seethat Seethat that pink send xof or a sea serpent Is follow following followIng followlag ing us Wb W shipped him back to New NewYork NewYork ew ewYork York on a steamship we met Aa a amatter amat amatter matter mat er of If fact It was the blue polka dot dotsea dotlea dotsea sea serpent that was chasing us usFeeling usFeeUn usFeeling Feeling fine this morning morningBy By the way the tbeblue blue polka dot sea seaserpent leaaerpen seaserpent serpent has disappeared this morning morningbut mornlnbut ...
Historical context
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Modern context
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