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Le
Serrec Monster
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Robert
Le Serrec had a very dramatic experience at Stonehaven
Bay, Hook Island, Austrailia when a creature swiftly swam
below his boat. According to Le Serrec's story his encounter
occurred just off the coast of Queensland, Australia,
on December 12th, I964. He was, he said, crossing the
shallow waters of Stonehaven Bay in a small boat with
his family and a friend, Henk de Jong, when his wife caught
sight of a huge, peculiar object on the sandy bottom,
less than six feet from the surface. De Jong at first
thought it was a large, twisted tree trunk, but it soon
became |
Depicted
image of the monster photographed during Robert Le Serrec's
sighting in 1964 |
evident
that this was some sort of monstrous creature - a creature
shaped like a giant tadpole with an enormous head and
tapering serpentine body. Le Serrec took some still photos
and then, circling his motor-boat closer, began to film
it with a movie camera. As the boat drew near, the witnesses
could make out a five-foot-long wound gouged open on the
motionless animal's back and could more clearly see the
broad head, which greatly resembled a snake's.
At
this point the Le Serrec children became extremely frightened.
The adults took the youngsters back to shore in the
dinghy, then continued their observation of the beast.
Since it remained inert, apparently seriously injured
or perhaps even dead, they ventured still closer, noting
two whitish eyes -located strangely on the top of the
head - and regularly spaced bands of brown along the
amazing length of the black body. The men decided to
dive for a better look, the photographer armed with
an undewater camera and his companion with an underwater
rifle.
The
divers could not get a clear view until they were within
twenty feet of the monster. It was truly gigantic -
seventy-five to eighty feet long, with four-foot-wide
jaws and two-inch eyes that at close range turned out
to be pale green. Suddenly, as Le Serrec began filming,
the beast began to open and half-close its cavernous
jaws "in a menacing manner" and to turn slowly
toward the men. Because it was clearly incapacitated,
the photographer kept on filming for a short time before
he and his friend made their escape. Back aboard the
boat, they discovered that the creature had disappeared.
Le Serrec's wife had seen it swim out to sea, undulating
horizontally - a motion typical of an eel or a reptile,
not a mammal.
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Resource
- Website
- Mystery Creatures of the Sea - http://freespace.virgin.net/brian.goodwin
Resource
- Book
- Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century by Janet &
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