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We are heading to the sea today to visit the Gloucester Sea Serpent: a massive, undulating creature seen off Cape Ann with over 1,000 eyewitness accounts dating back to the 1600s.

From fishermen tracking it for days to a ship firing a cannon at it, this legend only gets wilder.

https://www.mythfolks.com/gloucester-sea-serpent

https://www.oddthingsiveseen.com/2020/11/long-dark-and-scaly-gloucester-sea.html

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-05-22/regaling-tales-of-the-gloucester-sea-serpent-a-forgotten-legend-of-cryptozoology

https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/10/it-appeared-so-strange-and-wonderful/

https://www.theothercape.com/blog/serpent

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2019/09/gloucester-sea-serpent-mystery-solved-after-two-centuries/

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