In his publication Sea Fables Explained (1883), he wrote, “… the descriptions by ancient writers of so-called ‘fabulous creatures’ are rather distorted portraits than invented falsehoods, and there is ...

The open ocean has always made room for imagination. For centuries, sailors swore they saw monsters bigger than ships, smarter than people, and hungry enough to pull a crew straight off the deck. No ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chesapeake Bay gained a mystery. Multiple sitings of an unknown creature stirred concern and intrigue that a sea monster lurked in Maryland and Virginia’s waters ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

Everyone loves a good sea shanty. Wonderful songs of alternating solos with a chorus. This well-recognized genre was initiated by sailors who helped pass the time during incredibly long voyages by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you see one of these, don’t worry about being stung. Worry about the fact that you’re probably four miles under the surface of ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...