The locals believe it is a sea monster … It’s reported throughout the Bermuda Triangle … There’s something down there killing people … A half-shark, half-squid type animal. Curse of the Bermuda Triangle III: Monster in the Abyss, Discovery 2021
Even before the time of Homer himself people were telling the story of one of the most celebrated monsters in all Greek mythology ... a Cyclops. Tom Holland, Dinosaurs, Myths & Monsters, BBC 2011
A most terrible creature, resembling nothing they saw before. The monster lifted its head so high that it seemed to be higher than the crow’s nest on the mainmast. The head was small and the body short and wrinkled. The unknown creature was using giant fins which propelled it through the water. Later the sailors saw its tail as well. The monster was longer than our whole ship. Hans Egede, Dano-Norwegian missionary 1734, sighting off Greenland
Over the centuries there have been reports of the so-called Great Sea Serpent. Scores of captains have recorded such sightings in their ships’ logs. Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World, ITV 1980
Precise drawings were made of the Stronsay Beast at the time, and its dimensions were carefully measured. More than fifty witnesses swore to what they had seen. Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World, Rothiesholm Head, Stronsay, 1808
The Holmes family believe they came face to face with the legendary Serpent of the Sea. Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World
We were going along and all of a sudden we heard a disturbance in the water and we saw this mound come up out of the water. Well you’ve seen these motorway tractor units with their very large tyres ... Well if you can imagine one of those being released from out the water and then shooting up under its own propulsion. Bramwell Holmes, televised interview
We could see that it had two shallow humps three or four feet long. And then it had a small head. It had a thin neck and a small head which was dipping in the water and looking around. It was like some sort of prehistoric monster that you see. A huge size. Absolutely huge. Incredible. Andy Holmes, televised interview
I guess it looked pretty much like a long snake-like thing with fins on it. And at first sight of it I saw a head about a foot and a half long, about eight, nine inches wide. And it had large cat-like eyes … John Andrews, Vancouver, Canada, televised interview
We noticed something big caught in the nets. It was a red fleshy object which smelt very strongly. We didn’t know what it was. Captain Akira Tanaka
We’ve seen whales and we’ve seen dolphins and all that sort of thing, but this was nothing like that at all. This was like a pre-historic monster. John Cox, televised interview
This animal showed no signs of rotting; it was absolutely complete, unmarked. The monster measured approximately twenty-eight feet from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail; the body as it lay on the ground was approximately five to six feet deep ... The animal had teeth. Charles Rankin, Gourock, River Clyde Scotland, borough surveyor who ordered destruction and burial of beast during wartime
There’s been sightings around these shores for hundreds of years. And a lot in this century, particularly in the first decade of the century when the early steam ships were around. Sheila Bird, author Tales of Old Cornwall
There was this gigantic sea creature with a small head, a long neck, and an enormous hump. Sheila Bird, sighting with brother
A small head that rose up on a long neck and then one hump behind it, two humps, third hump came up ... People accused me of inventing it. Except that a lot of other people were seeing it as well. Tony Doc Shields, Parsons Beach, Cornwall
In 1876 the West Briton newspaper reported that fishermen from Falmouth had found a huge sea snake curled around their lobster pots but had thrown it back into the sea ... Witnesses continue to come forward. Strange But True? ITV 1993-1997
Take a look at this photo shot at Lake Champlain in 1977. The creature now known as Champ remains elusive. The photo has been declared genuine by some experts, and to date no scientist has ever discredited it. The World’s Greatest Hoaxes, 1998
What you are now seeing could be the most provocative video tape ever shot of a similar creature. It was recorded in California this year [1998]. The large scaly snake-like animal was captured by two amateur photographers: one on shore and the other on a boat ... It’s our hoax: designed to show you how easy it is to create your own sea-serpent video. ibid.
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Job 40:15-19
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. Psalms 74:13&14
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. Lamentations 4:3
And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell. Enoch 2:60:7&8
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor, cited Storyville: Final Account, BBC 2022
I think the world thinks he [John Muhammad, Washington sniper] was a monster. Is there such a thing as a monster? I first met him at my parents’ home. He was tall, dark and handsome. He liked to have fun. He liked to kid around. Carol Hutchinson, John Muhammad’s first wife, cited I, Sniper, Channel 4 2022
Malaysia 2017: a man is about to step into his sister’s bathroom when he notices something crawling out of the toilet. The 28-year-old immediately rushes out to tell his sister who whips out her camera and captures this video: the footages show a strange slithering creature emerging out of the bathroom with its head poking out of the door … The Proof is Out There s2e5, History 2022
Montauk, New York July 2020: A dead decomposing creature of unknown origin. The carcass is highly reminiscent of another famous find nearby - the famous Montauk monster [July 2008]. The Proof is Out There s2e13
Kyshtym, Russia 1996: It [mummy] was around ten inches long and hairless. It had greyish/brownish skin … The woman said she found the creature weeks earlier near a cemetery still alive … It finally died. The Proof is Out There s2e14
Son: Mummy, I’m killing a monster for you … It’s real. It says it’s going to eat me up. Jennifer Kent, Monster, 2005 short, Youtube 10.43