Comments on: Famed Beat Poet Saw Sea Serpent

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:59:34 +0000

That is totally Allen Ginsberg in the photo. Glasses, thinning hair, thick beard… classic Ginsberg.

By: gavinf

gavinf — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:12:26 +0000

Re: Archer1945

Actually, moonlight doesn’t answer my question, what time of day. 9:00 P.M.? 2:00 A.M.? Also, the account does not say she was traveling in the back of a car at the time of the sighting.

She said: Many times I’ve had occasion to ride that stretch of highway in a cab coming back from the airport and many times over the years have thought of what I saw.

You are probably right, but it isn’t what she said. Also, Bay Drive 101 doesn’t mean much to me because I have never been there, though I did look it up. Details are important, at least to me.

By: LanceFoster

LanceFoster — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:52:23 +0000

Very cool, I look forward to hearing more!

The Clark vidcap appears to be a net with floats though

By: norman-uk

norman-uk — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:12:59 +0000

There is a wonderful if somewhat sad report of the killing of a sea monster by the Victorian Daily Colonist newspaper published in British Columbia on 17 September 1902. It took place in Japan and the news was brought in by The Empress of India, just arrived in port. Reported in the same newspaper. The creatures described might well be the same as those seen by Tisa Walden, except smaller (measured at 48ft and 30ft), though hers is an estimated length. Her sketch seems to have long ears and possibly a horn. The body is coiled or arched above the water line, also how the Japanese creature is described. A rather special feature. The graphic report in the British Columbian newspaper is well worth looking at. I have given a link here but not sure if it works, as it generates the entire newspaper for that date. I wonder if Japanese cryptozoologists are aware of this report and maybe done some follow up?

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:11:08 +0000

That’s what I have always found fascinating and illuminating about cryptids. There is no one spectrum of person who has encounters with them…land going or sea going. And that is also the illuminating part…it is not a mind set or a specific personality type, or a specific type of person that has encounters…and that is a big part of what serves as evidence for me that cryptids (and especially the big three…or five…or is it more:) exist.

It is not always frightened people jumping to conclusions, and unreliable people who are just excited and want to tell tall tales, and it not all hoaxers looking for their 15 minutes of fame. It is something real, and just because we don’t have a carcass yet, does not dissuade me of the existence of these critters.

Again, it is an age old argument between cryptos and scoftics. It won’t be solved until we have a carcass, and even after it will just open the door to all kinds of previously ignored cryptids.

In the meantime, I have enough evidence to keep coming back here, continue to research and someday soon, do my own field research.

By: archer1945

archer1945 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:29:20 +0000

I sometimes wonder if people pay attention to what they are reading before they decide to add their comments. The question was asked about the time of day when she said it was at night. She also gives a pretty good description of where she was in location to where it was when she said she was sitting in the backseat of a car heading north on Highway 101 just before Candlestick Park.

By: Ceroill

Ceroill — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:35:35 +0000

Nice sketch. The serpent looks so friendly. Either that or satisfied with its latest meal.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:05:08 +0000

I tend to agree to MountDesertIslander. While I would not wish death on a creature like this, I admit I would not be devastated if one were to “wash up dead” on the shore. At least the “proof” would end tons of speculation and change the nature of Zoology and Human Belief forever.

Great story on Ms. Walden’s “sighting.”

Makes one wonder what other “celebrities” have seen and chosen not to report. If so, disclosure of said sightings would definitely help in “legitimizing” Cryptozoology and Eyewitness testimony.

By: gavinf

gavinf — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:49:56 +0000

Awesome. Here is someone who doesn’t need the limelight and comes forth with a very interesting sighting.

I’m sure everyone has questions, like I do. What time of day? How close to the creature? Close enough to hear sounds? Why the comment that it was coiled below the surface, when something of that size could float and still be stationary, in a cove especially?

Actually, her idea of coiling below the surface is of interest to me. She does show definite spacing below the humps or coils. There could be a large, full-bodied, not serpentine, creature below the surface. Also, I find her comment of a ”dragonlike” head, rather than snake-like, very interesting.

By: MountDesertIslander

MountDesertIslander — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:14:44 +0000

There is a consistency to the descriptions of this particular type of sea serpent. Undulating swimming motion, 60-80 feet in length, holding neck and head out of the water, and a maned horse head are all terms used from Maine to the Pacific Northwest. I've read these words so many times over the years it's like hearing from an old friend. (See here.) I hate to wish death on any creature, but, if only one would wash up today, imagine how that would rock the foundations of the sceptic's world.