The monster was of so huge a size, that coming out of the water, its head reached as high as the mast-head: Its body was as bulk as the ship, and three times as long.
'A most dreadful monster showed itself upon the surface of the water in the year 1734, off our new colony, in the sixty-fourth degree of latitude. Egede drew a picture of the alleged creature and described it as a 'most dreadful monster.' Egede wrote, as recounted in the 1883 book ' Travellers' Tales: A Book of Marvels': In 2005, a team of researchers published a paper in the Archives of Natural History that examined an account of a sea serpent sighting off the coast of Greenland by a missionary named Hans Egede in 1734. While a whale penis may not be the answer to all of our Nessie questions, whale penises may truly have been the culprits behind some old sea serpent sightings. In other words, the Loch Ness Monster isn't a whale penis because the Loch Ness Monster is a toy submarine.
, Wed Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa)
