Tasmanian Blobster 1998
Melbourne Herald Sun (Victoria, Australia): Thursday January 8th 1998 “Monster Mystery” Nearly 40 years after Tasmania’s famous west-coast monster mystery, another hairy sea creature is baffling the experts. “We have a big, smelly monster from the deep – it is a mystery,” said Barry Bruce, a fisheries biologist with the CSIRO. The stinking carcass washed...
Sea Monster Chronicles – Sightings from 1734 to 1976
By Martin Jeffrey July 1734 – “The Good Hope Sighting” Hans Egede supplied one of the earliest reliable firsthand accounts of a sea creature spotted near the coast of Greenland. Egede, a missionary voyaging to Greenland spotted something incredible as his vessel neared the Danish colony of Good Hope on the David Strait. “On the...
The Benbecula Blobster
By Martin Jeffrey Benbecula Island is situated on the coast of Scotland and is renowned for its beautiful scenery and washed up sea creatures. In 1830, a half-woman, half fish was seen swimming nearby Benbecula’s shores. Witnesses tried to catch the creature, which disappeared after a local boy struck it with a rock. Two days...
Bonavista Newfoundland Sea Creature
By GLEN WHIFFEN of The Telegram April 6 2000 The ocean pressing against the ancient shores of Cape Bonavista carries its share of stories and mysteries. From shipwrecks and acts of courage to unexplained voices and lights, Cape Bonavista has been the stuff of Newfoundland folklore. Bonavista resident Bob Crewe says sea monsters can be...
The Newfoundland Blobster 2001
(‘Monster’ beached 8th August 2001 By RYAN CLEARY, The Telegram) The locals here call it “the monster.” “Any word on the monster yet?” they ask each other, looking to the sea for an answer. “We people have never seen the likes of it before, we never.” Fishermen mutter the word “monster” with smirks on their...
Newfoundland Blobster Basking Shark?
Press Report Yesterday(2nd August 2001), marine experts at Memorial University in St. John’s, about four hours away by car, said they had disappointing news. The sea monster is almost certainly a basking shark. John Lien, leader of the university’s whale research group, dispatched a technician to the beach yesterday to get samples of tissue and...
Block Island Sea Creature 1996
Press Report In a report out of New Shoreham, Rhode Island, which was printed in the June 27, 1996 USA Today, residents of Block Island do not know what to make of a ribless sea creature captured in a fishnet during June 1996. The animal has feelers upon its head, and is ten feet in...
