Have You Seen The Cape May Sea Serpent?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 23rd, 2010
On April 20, 1855, the New York Times reported that a “dispatch [dated April 19] received [in Philadelphia] from Cape May says that a Sea Serpent, one hundred feet long, was seen there yesterday. An expedition has gone in pursuit of him. A reward of one thousand dollars has been offered for his capture.”
The article also noted that “this same Sea Serpent has appeared previously in that vicinity, and about this season of the year.”
How often has the Cape May Sea Serpent really been seen? Have you seen it or them?
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I went to Coast Guard boot camp in Cape May, New Jersey back in 1979. I was a bit too busy being run into the ground and yelled at then to do much looking for the beast, but could have (and still could) use $1000.00!
Finback whales are seen off of Cape May… I also saved the life of an abnormally large sea turtle 7ft class just off of the cape may jetties once
See the letter in the July/August 2011 issue of Phactum on pages 5 and 6 by Don Nigroni (http://www.phact.org/data/phactums/Phactum%202011-07.pdf) for an even earlier report of the Cape May Sea Serpent. This item appeared in The Inquirer and National Gazette, a Philadelphia paper, on December 20, 1844 and said that “Several pilots who approached within a short distance of the monster describe it as 25 feet in length.” Cape May was formerly called Cape Island.