Sea Monster Myths

Sea monsters are beings from old stories and tales which are believed to live the sea and they are often imagined to be of an enormous size. These sea monsters can take on many forms, including imaginary sea ones (fire breathing, imaginary types, huge animals), sea snakes, or multi-armed monsters. The definition of a “monster” is subjective, and some of the sea monsters people had hypostasised that it was based on scientifically accepted creatures such as whales, sharks, and types of colossal and giant squids.
Sea monster sightings can nearly be virtually found in all cultures that have been in contact with the sea. In July 1734 there was an account of an encounter by Hans egede, a Dano- Norwegian missionary. Hans had reported that on a trip to Gothaab/Nuuk on the western coast of Greenland he saw and described the monster as: a terrible creature, which didn’t resemble anything they had seen before. The

In the past century there have been many reports of sea monster’s corpses. Unidentified carcasses are often called globsters and people usually mistake them for sea monsters because during the process of their body decomposing, they become weird and lose some parts of itself.
In 1977 a Japanese trawler had allegedly netted a plesiosaur carcass. After carefully analysing the carcass, it revealed itself as a dead basking shark. They Japanese trawler then revealed it as a comparable phenomenon in decomposing basking shark carcasses. He revealed that the shark body would lose most of the lower head area and the dorsal and caudal fins first, making the dead carcass look like a plesiosaur.
In August 2001, in Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, they had discovered a boneless and amorphic globster. At first it was thought to be a monster but after DNA testing, it confirmed that it was just a sperm