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the ogden standard-examiner (ogden, utah) 1920-current — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1922-07-16
Location: ogden, utah, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the ogden standard-examiner (ogden, utah) 1920-current · 1922-07-16 · page 25
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1922-07-16 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.

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... by the jaws of a sea serpent Although science has never been able to use its dissecting knives and microscopes on w such creatures, there is good reason to E" suspect that they exist in various parts of the seven seas. M. Back In 18.M the people living or. the Atlantic coast of the United States were 9: I greatly excited by the repeated appear- Efi nnce at widely separated points of what mil was described as a sea serpent. Credible ft observers described this monster as being Bv'- at least one hundred feet long and with Wp. a cylindrical body about two feet in diam- E'' eter. It had a large and ugly head, ...

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