How to pronounce “sea serpent” in English

with the sea serpent, but after today you will be aware how obsessed Americans were with this creature and then something that you probably know a good bit more about.

interest in the sea serpent, decided they were going to work up a zoological profile of it.

But let's get to the sea serpent first.

isn't actually a spawn of a sea serpent.

a turn when it comes to the sea serpent.

And there had actually been a lot of discussion about the spawn of the sea serpent.

that it was fossils that had been taxidermied together to look like a sea serpent and became so popular that Herman

recently in film or longer ago in discussions about sightings of the sea serpent -- has a lot to do with how they

I'll talk about today is first of all the 19th century American obsession with the sea serpent.

And so, the sea serpent becomes a really important part of American popular culture.

This great wonder of the world -- Hydrarchos -- sea serpent.

In 1817, there were a series of sea serpent sightings in Gloucester Harbor.

Thought that they had found a specimen of one of the sea serpent's babies

Now, not all monsters are quite so friendly and interesting as the sea serpent.

Actually, the first sea serpent sightings in New England were in the early 17th century.