I was born and raised in Pensacola Florida and still live there till this day and I've never heard that story before. I'm 52 and have very little use for the beach or swimming in the ocean. Love seafood and fishing in it but that's it. When you fish here, you never know what you're going to pull up. I prefer swimming in a pool,don't want to swim with creatures I can't see until their right up on you!! Thank you for sharing that story.
😂😂😂WE are alot alike, I could have wrote most of this, yet I'm 46,born and raised in New Orleans then moved to Pcola at 16 been here every since. Don't care for the beach or seafood, my dad always jokes that I'm not from New Orleans bc of that. Lol and I love a swimming pool bc i dont like swimming with big fish!! Flat boats are cool though and fishing is awesome. 😊
Native Pensacolian here, 57 yo & I love the beach! I’ve never heard of this story either. Not saying it’s not true bc there’s things in the ocean none of us know is there! Eeeek
I’ve lived in Pensacola for over 50 years since the ‘70s, and have been a diver since moving here, and have never heard this story. I started scuba diving in the ‘60s and have hundreds of dives on just about every site off Pensacola including the Massachusetts. If there was a sea monster, I think I would have seen it. When I came here in the ‘70s, most of the ship was above water including its massive gun turrets. It invited you to climb up on it. It has since deteriorated and is just below the surface. The Mass was a WWI battleship and sits in only 25 feet of water, just about 1.5 miles from the beach. The Navy was towing it out of the pass to use for target practice when it got stuck on a shallow sand bar on the west side of the pass called Caucus Shoals. This area IS treacherous, so that part of the story fits. I’ve crossed it in a boat many times and the waves are always bigger due to depth of water. Since I’ve lived here, there has been at least one whale that got beached on this shoal, and other whales spotted up and down the beach, and even a baby humpback whale spotted from the pier, but these sightings are rare. Large manta rays are not uncommon, and they often jump out of the water, as do spinner sharks and dolphins. One of these may account for the sea monster or it may just be made up, for reasons only the story teller knows. To make it to the Navy base, the swimmer would have had to swim through the pass and into the bay - about 3-4 miles, depending on where he made landfall. This does fit with the narrative. Since one body was found washed up on the beach, and not half eater, it makes sense that the other boys drowned. It certainly would not be the first time and not the last. Only a couple of years ago, I participated in a search for a young man lost in this area. In fun, he had jumped off a moving boat, but never came up. We did finally find his body in the wee hours of the morning. The sea is a fickle and moody mistress. One minute she can be inviting and the next trying to kill you. You should always respect her and be wary. Unfortunately these boys were just too young to understand that.
I suggest u watch the movie that Werner Herzog made about the Loch Ness. It`s out as a double-DVD. In the 2nd DVD, one their boat is attacked and one guy (a young biologist) falls in the water never to be seen again and Werner falls into the water with his waterproof camera and accidently films some HUGE creature swim right by him....which he later admits blew his mind.
I always imagine the one dude out there alone with no camera.. who has a history of fibbing a lot.. just randomly sees this massive undiscovered sea-creature and everyone’s like “yeah ok Ralph sure”
I'm not sure if the narrator here reads the comments, but if so, your voice is freaking awesome - you'd be crazy not to voice horror movie and crime noir trailers. We are lucky to have you here! Great work!
Ive lived in Pensacola Beach 42 years and have never heard of this so cool to hear stories about where you live and swim that you may not have been aware of!
I agree totally. There's things in our oceans we will never know about. Living in south Florida I've been in the ocean alot over 60 years and it's a very surreal place. But can be very dangerous. Great video guys.
Per the Pensacola News Journal: McCleary had told authorities at the time that the group had set out around 1:30 p.m., but soon their raft began taking on water, so the group decided to head back to shore. But the tide fought against them, carrying them further away from shore. The weather turned, a fog rolled in and the tide kept carrying them away from land. Eventually, the group began to swim to a buoy. One of the young men began developing leg cramps, McCleary said, so he and another buddy stayed with the struggling swimmer. He lost sight of his other two friends. As night came, he would lose contact with all his buddies. McCleary kept swimming toward shore. It was still dark when he made it back to land near Fort Pickens. “I went into what I thought was a Coast Guard watch tower when I became cold, huddled into a corner and finally went to sleep," he told the Pensacola News Journal. He woke at 6:45 a.m. in the tower and was soon rescued. McCleary said he never saw any of the other four go under. His friends were presumed drowned and one body would later be found, with drowning listed as cause of death.
My gf saw a monster at crescent lake. We where there off season and caught it by surprise. The crazy thing is she had a nice camera in her hand and it scared her so much that she just froze! But I trust her completely so I know she saw it. She seen other things too in Louisiana that are unexplainable. It seems like people who see things like ghosts also see Cryptids a lot.
I interviewed Brian's son and picked up some new information. Really sounds like a plesiosaur, he saw more than the head and neck. A+ job on telling of the account....VERY ACCURATE!
@@SlappedHamMysteries Yeah, it had a body, he saw the back. He did not tell his son if he saw flippers or a tail. But he did tell his son it had a body. It was also his dad's theory that it was at least in the family of a plesiosaur.
@@Adventure-Guidethanks for sharing this, I believe dinosaurs and man always lived together, it’s the dumb worldview of evolutionism that has everyone skeptical.
I was diving at the whiskey wreck in the Gulf and my friend and I never swam so fast to get out of the water without getting the bends from coming up to fast we saw a long neck creature with a huge body like a manatee
Hi Mark - can you expound on your story some more please ? Where abouts were you in the Gulf, (not being a diver I have no idea where "Whiskey Wreck" is) How far down where you ? Can you give a better description such as colour, overall size, neck length, shape of head, flippers or fins, teeth & mouth shape, eyes etc. ? Did you report what you saw, and if so, who did you report it to ? Did they believe you ? I wholeheartedly believe you and would love to know more - thanks.
Pleasiosaurus, maybe ? [ Might be misspelled, sorry 😞 ] Not entirely impossible to discount the very idea ; remember 1938 or so when some African fishermen caught quite a surprise in their nets ! A Coelecanth, an armored amphibian fish, which walked on land with its fins; it was believed to be extinct 250 million years ago ! By the time scientists were able to get to where the specimen was; it had been gutted, filleted , and either eaten for food or sold, 😥. Undeterred by their failure to secure a living breathing example of such a rarity, the scientists continued probing and researching the area where the first one was caught. Their patience paid off when they finally caught a live coelecanth ; surprisingly, many more have been captured for studying. The first one was caught off the coast of Madagascar; the second 😳 off the coast of South 🇿🇦 I believe. How did they survive ? Nobody knows ! But if a 250 million year old armored amphibian fish 🐟 🤔 could survive in the sea; who knows what else might've survived as well? Our oceans cover almost 65% of the Earth's surface and are barely explored ; we know about Outer Space than our own oceans !
This is why it should be mandatory to wear a GoPro when diving. It’s a safety thing for one but also shows what you see to some extent and can give your fam some closure should you have an accident down there. Just seems prudent.. a newer one that can go down 300ft or so is like $400 and they last years and years.
My great great uncle died off the coast of Pensacola in a Naval training flight. He is quite famous, Lt. Richard Sauffley , the base is called Sauffley Field and the USS Sauffley was named for him. He was the first Naval pilot shot at in combat in 1914.
Wow!! Sauffley Field Rd, etc is very famous here, if you know Pensacola, you know Sauffley! I didn't know that information as I moved from New Orleans to Pensacola when I was 16, so I don't know alot of history here like I do about Louisiana bc it's taught in school there but not here, not at my time anyway. And I don't remember my son learning much about Pensacola when he was in school either. But tysm for educating me. So I have to know, did he get any compensation? I would hope so. I'm glad his name stood for something. To be such an important person that anyone in history that knows Pensacola will know his name, that's pretty amazing. Wishing the best for you and your family. Thanks again for the education.
I grew up in Pensacola, right behind Saufley Field base off of Saufley Pine Rd. I still have relatives that live there and lots of friends that I'm in contact with. I can remember riding the bus home from school and seeing a plane crash in the woods. At that time Saufley Field was a training base for pilots at the time so it was just a little small Cessna so not an uncommon sight. But this sea monster?? Complete fabrication lol. Even the description of the weather and water is laughable!! 😅
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 Great now I am imagining every TH-cam video with "Pensacola" in the title with a "My great great uncle died off the cost of Pen..." comment in it.
Such a sad and tragic story. That poor young man. Losing 4 friends in such a horrific way. The stuff nightmares are made of... Devastating for the families of all the young men involved... 💔 🙏
I know that an examination of the body that washed ashore several days later determined the boy had died by drowning rather than in a predatory attack - leading many to suspect there was no sea monster. I have to ask though - how come none of the other bodies washed ashore?
It's sad that these kids apparently never told anyone where and when they were going on their adventure. Back in the day (I was only a year old in '62) kids just did stuff, but even then you'd think they'd have told someone, who might've sent help out for them when they didn't return. Scary story. I lived in P'Cola and you'd never think....
Two years ago my son and I were fishing off the coast of Pensacola and saw a sea monster, a 14 foot Tiger Shark. It was chasing a very large sea turtle. To us in a 18 foot fishing boat that's a sea monster.
I had an extremely unnerving experience in that same area (off the coast of Gulf Breeze) in 1990. Not NEARLY so tragic and dramatic as this one, but freakish for ME anyway, if anyone is interested read on... And although I know this to be true, its up to people to make up their own interpretations, doubt, or belief after reading.... My family have been commercial fishermen for at least 500 years of our family history, and usually it was family run fishhouses. I was working with my uncle back then as a purseine fishermen. It was seasonal, meaning we would only do so for 9 months out of the year, and take 3 months off from it. You could either manage your money well and take a long vacation, or find some way to work those three months if your terrible with money....I'm terrible with money. So during the off-season, we would go out off the coast, pretty far out there, to small islands where we would camp and gillnet. My cousin would do all the prep, while I had the "fun" job off sitting up at night to signal boats with a high powered flashlight. Basically if a boat came towards our corkline, I would blink the flashlight at them, then shine the light back and forth on the line so they wouldnt hit it and tear up the net or jam up their prop. But I was barely more than a teenager, and kind of irresponsible, so I would sometimes nap instead of sitting up when I was supposed to.....Well, this one time we hadnt had much luck, so we went WAY out in the gulf. There was no island anywhere nearby that we knew off, and it was just me because my cousin had gotten sick and was just going to meet me in the morning. Good, I thought....I could get some sleep. I was normally a light sleeper, and usually woke up if I heard any other traffic. You have to understand when its calm out there, other than the gentle lap of water its VERY quiet out there and sound tends to carry. Iassumed I would wake up in plenty of time to shine the light. So I drifted off. I don't know for how long but something woke me up. Almost like a "feeling" that I was being watched. It was weird.....I lay there with my eyes closed, and while I don't scare easy I had this nagging feeling that I did NOT want to sit up and look. After a moment of clearing my head I realized how irrational my fear was, so I made myself quickly sit up and turn on the light. All I saw was a large, upright black shadow at the edge of the stern. Whatever it was, it was up WAY out of the water, at least a head and shoulders taller than me standing in the boat. And whatever it was seemed to be the same color as seaweed, As I jolted up and hit the light, IT splashed into the water. I don't know if it was leaning on the back of the boat (Which was the same size as a standard shrimping or long line boat)or if its impact into the water did it, but the whole boat rocked so violently I thought it was going to capsize for a moment. Man, I was shaking like a leaf, my brain was screaming at me to get the hell out of there, while I was frozen in place scanning the water HOPING I didnt see anything....But I did. I saw another HUGE splash, which I took as my "get the hell out of there" cue. I hauled as to the cabin, started the boat, and flew back to dock as quick as that boat would go. Leaving the net there. My cousin was freaked out by what I described and told him, as was my uncle. I tend to be a very serious person and not much of a practical joker, nor do I really tell "Big fish" stories.....They commented on this and said it unnerved them. We went out and retrieved the net, looking for any sign of what I had seen, but didnt find anything. That guys right....The ocean has MANY unknown secrets yet to be discovered. Because whatever the hell was out of the water watching me, made NO sense compared to any known animal. Stay safe, and God bless.
I was a tour guide at the historic museums of Pensacola when I was a teenager. In the Old Christ Church Pensacola Historic Museum, before it was turned back into a church, we had a library filled with books about Pensacola and the surrounding areas. I was, of course, fascinated by the books about ghost and monster stories of Pensacola and the surrounding areas. The only, and I mean only, sea monster story was one from the late 19th or early 20th century (it's been over 30 years since I read the book). In this purportedly true story, the sea monster was not a giant one, and it also came up onto land. The description, which I cannot clearly remember, was pretty horrific. Then, one day, it was seen slinking into an abandoned shack and the local constables surrounded it and kicked in the door.... What they found was a South American river otter which, if you are not aware, stand 5 feet tall when rearing up on their hind legs and are known to kill caymans. If there had been tales of a Pensacola sea monster in the 60s, I would have heard about it, either from the older locals or from my uncles and aunts who had lived in there since the 50s. So, this is a neat story, but that's all it is. The Pensacola News Journal has records of the interviews with the boy in 1962 and he never mentioned a monster. It wasn't until years later that he decided to spice it up, but not to the News Journal; to Fate Magazine. A tabloid rag that focused on the paranormal, which wasn't local.
A plesiosaur cannot move its neck vertically above the water as described in the story. They can only go side to side, with little articulation up and down due to the way the neck vertebrae are shaped. Maybe it was some kind of tentacle instead of a head and neck?
@@SlappedHamMysteriesnot really. Nothing like that has been found to exist since the extinction event that happened 65 million years ago. Also plesiosaurs were marine reptiles that had to come to the surface for air. That would make them to go undetected in modern times for this long.
@@turk914 -I'm big on an unclassified giant long neck turtle as the culprit. The remaining survivor did a drawing of the beast, which is at the end of my blog. I have a snake neck turtle as a pet and he stinks up the room when I pick it up and move it to give it's tank a clean-up. He puts out that rotten fish odor passingly mentioned in the story. Also he is very vicious when feeding, anything smaller than it gets attacked and then quickly consumed. Put aquaticandaerialanomolyassociation.blogspot.com/2016/05/stupendemys-worlds-largest-turtle.html into your browser for a Stupendemys story
Also... the body that was found. Did they do an autopsy and say how he died? Was it by drowning? Attack by an animal? It would add credibility to Brian's story on how his friend died.
That was one of the big dismissals of it being an unknown creature. If he were killed by an animal like the one that was described there would have been evidence of an unknown creature.
I'm usually more skeptical about marine cryptids than when I was a kid, but I always found this story to be terrifying. In most sailor tales, sea serpents rarely engage in predatory behavior upon humans.
I was told this story roughly 20 years ago, yet until today, even with watching everything I can on cryptids and monster stories, I'd never heard it again or even seen it mentioned in any other form. I was beginning to think it wasn't an actual story.
I used to fish the ocean in the North East. We would go out tens of miles, maybe more. But you need to bring the proper safety equipment. The sea is unforgiving of those that venture out unprepared....
Having worked offshore in my youth...I've seen things too that are unexplainable. To this day, thick fog scares the begeezus out of me. There ARE things in the water... but there are worse things in the air.
Time ago I saw something about a telescope that the person who invented this bit of kit allowed him to see things in the sky, things we can not see with our naked eyes!! Scary giant things that are there all the time?? Anyone else ever see this.something about the way he set the lenses of the scope?? Opposite way to the normal set up of a telescope?? I carnt seem to find that site now, maybe taken down?? There has been other stuff about the things, creatures that live above us!!?? Just aswel we carnt see them! Someone tell me I am not the only one who knows about this??👽👻
I lived in Pensacola for 20 years and didn't know this, I stopped going to Pensacola Beach because every time I did I would see a young man walking at the shore line always giving me eye contact, I was the only one that could see him. The first time I saw him I didn't realize he was a spirit but I did get a bazaar feeling.
@@dinkvjrthat’s a good question. My grandmother doesn’t go for this very reason. It’s where she met my step-grandfather when she remarried. They got married near the beach of Pensacola and this little girl kept following them around, just for her to find out that the little girl had died long ago. My grandmother didn’t pay it any mind and just allowed the little girl to wander about, but kept her distance.
I had the same thoughts too, until I found out that it’s a common thing for lakes and rivers to be connected by underwater cavern networks and there’s all kinds of aquatic life that can navigate them if the passageways are big enough.
Both my parents are from there and I live on the gulf. They've never told this to me and they looove stories. I've never heard of a monster story from the gulf at all
I'ma be real with you. Having lived in Pensacola for 20+ years now I have never heard anything like this. The only real horror our beach had was when it became the depository for the BP oil rig.
There are a lot of interesting stories about Pensacola...I grew up here and fished on the Massachusetts wreck. People still come up missing and never found who were on the water in the area close by called the Pass. A deep channel that leads from the bay into the gulf, which ultimately goes to the Massachusetts wreck, about 2 miles out. That channel was deep enough for the USS Lexington to come to port. I'd never heard this story before, but anything's possible in the deep blue sea...
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@lawrenceprice2356 I think they're referring to the Clark twins. They were obsessed with a supposed monster that they claimed to have seen in the SF Bay
Nice story, 5 boys in Holland went to surf one day, they all died, a friend of a friend was there, she turned back because of feeling in her gut, she lived
Fascinating story - never heard this one . Described very well and entertaining! Theres an account of a Norwegian boat captain and his crew seeing a very similar creature that were headed to dock in Galveston . He saw the creature in the Gulf also . He put in his ship log and all his men verified the sighting. He was in his quarters when his men rushed in and told him to come up on deck . He says he looked west toward the setting sun, something huge was heading toward the ship . He said it first it looked like an old man walking with a cane as it swayed back and forth , on closer inspection he could see it was a very long necked sea serpent swaying back and forth as it thrust its body forward . All of the sudden a large school of sharks showed up in a panic heading right at the ship , dove under it and surfaced on the other side heading straight away from the sea monster . The serpent got relatively close to the ship and its shocked men . It looked at them for a minute and then sunk beneath the waves . It also resurfaced on the other side as if in pursuit of the sharks . The mans , name , date and ship are public record . More things in heaven and earth and sea than are dreamt of.
I saw the lizard man outside of Charleston in 1984 at noon sitting on the bank of thr Edisto river. I stopped on the bridge frozen with fear because I couldn't believe what i was seeing. He turned him head to look at me which we held eye contact that seemed like forever, then I was able to break my freeze and I floored it out of there in my Dodge Charger never telling a soul until about 17 years later where I saw a story on him on the world news while I was living in South Korea.
Oh yes, these creatures exist everywhere. My parents and many others saw something similar one time when they were fishing at a lake. It looked like a long black log but have flippers that flaps around in the water. Everyone there saw it and started racing to their cars. I think such creatures only show themselves in special occasions and to certain people, it's like they have some kind of magical ability or something; and thunder will strike the creature if god wouldn't allow it to eat the human. I even heard about a ritual that you could do if such a creature took someone you love: you would catch 3 red crabs and cook them by the place and call on god or something because taking a human is prohibited and a big deal. I heard that every body of water has it's own guardian- dinosaur, dragon, or whatever you wanna call it. Oh, all the stories I heard over the years... Stories and eye witness accounts like these exist for hundreds of years, people just choose not to believe in them, but story exist because things exist.
I am a life long river rat from South Ga - Darien to be exact, seen a giagantic creature in 94 or 95 with my wife Kelly at the time I only could explain as a large snake / gator creature.... Reports go back to the days before colonizatiion in Indian tales .. Plus in the early 1800's we had reports of a similar creature being seen by sail schooners that actually fired on said creatures... The one we seen estimated 50 to 70 ft long 10 ft diameter and it breathed air because it surfaced behind us as we were anchored fishing for catfish in a deep hole where the Cathead river meets the Darien river..... We first seen it undulating up and down towards us right off the cut bank then it dived under and the fish stopped biting and you could feel this weird drumming sound in the water up through the floor of our jon boat... My wife almost flipped us over trying to get to me (I guess she thought i could protect her if it was hostile because I always carry a 9mm pistol lmao). Any way as we stood motionless I heard it break the surface behind me very stealthly and breath, I turned my head ever so slightly to see a reptilianish head (gator like) but with what looked to be wiskers..?... Then another smaller one came up next and it was "cute" but as soon as they were checking us out a boat came racing down the river and they quickly dived never to reemerge again... Swear to God that is what happened and I seen.......
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 True story and really believe it was a pod of manatees.... Oarfish dont live in freshwater nor have wiskers / breath air... It had to be manatees because of the wiskers it really looked like a giant snake, maybe its how a pod of manatees move when it murky water in a line undulating up and down...? Thats my best guess...? or..........??
In ‘85 my younger brother and I were at Utah lake down by the abandoned boat launch and harbor in American fork…we used to hang out there all the time fishing and swimming the lake was flooded at that time the original jetty and boat launch were swamped in a few feet of water it was overcast and had been raining earlier that day…we dropped our lines in the water but nothing was biting and we gave up fishing and found a section of dock that had been floating aimlessly around the launch and we were swimming and diving off this thing I looked up at one point to the west and just coming into view from a large area of half submerged bushes and small trees was a very large snake…rather unremarkable except for its size the other interesting part was the way it swam…every other snake I’ve seen swimming did so in a sidewinder kind of style,making s shapes going side to side like a desert rattlesnake…this creature swam with its head and about 3 feet of body elevated above the surface…exactly how they describe “sea serpents “ swimming with loops of body carried above the surface..this one had three loop sections visible plus his head and neck..i would conservatively estimate his total length at around 23 to 25 feet…easily there was about 18 to 24 inches of water separating the visible loop portions and I’m sure there was a lot of the animal under the water that was not visible to us.. I’d say his head was the size of a healthy papaya…his body girth I’d put at about 10”-12” not the biggest snake in the world or even the biggest I’ve seen in person..his coloring was very close to a carps.. like a dirty gold bronze on top and a dirty off white yellowed ivory color underneath…rough keeled scales and black eyes…what was he? A freakishly large common water snake? Idk but both my bro and I were pretty fearless when it came to the local fauna and I had worked at an exotic pet store and the monte l bean museum caring for all manner of exotic animals insects and reptiles…my brother and I would routinely capture rattlesnakes and other specimens and we were very confident but neither one of us made any suggestions of trying to catch or tangle with that bad boy… true account
This kinda reminds me of the Werner Herzog movie he made about Loch Ness. Even though at the beginning of the movie W. Herzog mentions that although the legend does interest him, he did not believe in the actual existence of the creature. But in the 2nd part of the movie, they lose a young biologist in the water and his body was never found and this was because their boat was being attacked by something big and Werner himself fell into the water w/his waterproofed camera and his camera DID catch something REAL BIG swim by his side that wasn`t a sturgeon or large conger eel, but something waaay bigger. I suggest u seek this movie out. Its` very good and extremely amazing.
Yeah, there's a reason I will *NEVER* take a long sea voyage. Being swallowed by horrors beyond my imagination, is just.... something I don't ever want to encounter in this lifetime.
Bull sharks happened to the boys!!! There are hundreds of them here with many Tiger Sharks too. no sea monsters though I have lived here for 63 years .
I may have seen that thing while on a catamaran offshore of Biloxi, circa 1978 when I was stationed there in the AF! Why I was on a catamaran right after watching Jaws on base, I can't say!
They need to make a movie off this and make into an actual horror. The kind that can leave you feeling terrified of the ocean. A24 or Blumhouse should pick this up
jeez, i love the slapped ham mysteries..really fixated viewing and cant wait for them to drop into my notifications 😁 tragic story to say the least 😢 Scientists only know about 5% of the ocean..so what lives in there is a true mystery indeed 🤔
I've lived in Pensacola for 40 years and have never heard of a sea monster around here.
Yeah me neither
Me either
Same.
Same!
My parents grew up here too-so will dbl check if they have heard of this but I am sure my parents would have told me this at some point.
I was born and raised in Pensacola Florida and still live there till this day and I've never heard that story before. I'm 52 and have very little use for the beach or swimming in the ocean. Love seafood and fishing in it but that's it. When you fish here, you never know what you're going to pull up. I prefer swimming in a pool,don't want to swim with creatures I can't see until their right up on you!! Thank you for sharing that story.
😂😂😂WE are alot alike, I could have wrote most of this, yet I'm 46,born and raised in New Orleans then moved to Pcola at 16 been here every since. Don't care for the beach or seafood, my dad always jokes that I'm not from New Orleans bc of that. Lol and I love a swimming pool bc i dont like swimming with big fish!! Flat boats are cool though and fishing is awesome. 😊
Btw, never heard that story either 😂
28, from Pensacola, can confirm never heard of this either 😂
it's Pensacola sea monster
Native Pensacolian here, 57 yo & I love the beach! I’ve never heard of this story either. Not saying it’s not true bc there’s things in the ocean none of us know is there! Eeeek
I’ve lived in Pensacola for over 50 years since the ‘70s, and have been a diver since moving here, and have never heard this story. I started scuba diving in the ‘60s and have hundreds of dives on just about every site off Pensacola including the Massachusetts. If there was a sea monster, I think I would have seen it. When I came here in the ‘70s, most of the ship was above water including its massive gun turrets. It invited you to climb up on it. It has since deteriorated and is just below the surface. The Mass was a WWI battleship and sits in only 25 feet of water, just about 1.5 miles from the beach. The Navy was towing it out of the pass to use for target practice when it got stuck on a shallow sand bar on the west side of the pass called Caucus Shoals. This area IS treacherous, so that part of the story fits. I’ve crossed it in a boat many times and the waves are always bigger due to depth of water. Since I’ve lived here, there has been at least one whale that got beached on this shoal, and other whales spotted up and down the beach, and even a baby humpback whale spotted from the pier, but these sightings are rare. Large manta rays are not uncommon, and they often jump out of the water, as do spinner sharks and dolphins. One of these may account for the sea monster or it may just be made up, for reasons only the story teller knows. To make it to the Navy base, the swimmer would have had to swim through the pass and into the bay - about 3-4 miles, depending on where he made landfall. This does fit with the narrative. Since one body was found washed up on the beach, and not half eater, it makes sense that the other boys drowned. It certainly would not be the first time and not the last. Only a couple of years ago, I participated in a search for a young man lost in this area. In fun, he had jumped off a moving boat, but never came up. We did finally find his body in the wee hours of the morning. The sea is a fickle and moody mistress. One minute she can be inviting and the next trying to kill you. You should always respect her and be wary. Unfortunately these boys were just too young to understand that.
Spinner sharks? Or dolphins?
As a Sea Monster fan from the 1970s and collector of their stories, this one, for me, is the most haunting. Thanks.
I suggest u watch the movie that Werner Herzog made about the Loch Ness. It`s out as a double-DVD. In the 2nd DVD, one their boat is attacked and one guy (a young biologist) falls in the water never to be seen again and Werner falls into the water with his waterproof camera and accidently films some HUGE creature swim right by him....which he later admits blew his mind.
I always imagine the one dude out there alone with no camera.. who has a history of fibbing a lot.. just randomly sees this massive undiscovered sea-creature and everyone’s like “yeah ok Ralph sure”
@@emilioaymat5651, the Werner Herzog Loch Ness Movie is openly fictitious. Its a parody movie.
@@emilioaymat5651 you realize that the Herzog movie was entirely fictional, right? They just did it in documentary style.
@@JohnnyStroud surprised this didn’t get more attention. I’m glad it’s not a made up story for clicks!
I'm not sure if the narrator here reads the comments, but if so, your voice is freaking awesome - you'd be crazy not to voice horror movie and crime noir trailers. We are lucky to have you here! Great work!
The voice is AI...
I do read the comments - and thank you! 😊
@@tx.tactical3165 No he isn't he's real.
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Ive lived in Pensacola Beach 42 years and have never heard of this so cool to hear stories about where you live and swim that you may not have been aware of!
Such a sad story. We'll never know the truth of what really happened that day. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the next story.
gojira...minus one version.
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rip to them boys.
I agree totally. There's things in our oceans we will never know about. Living in south Florida I've been in the ocean alot over 60 years and it's a very surreal place. But can be very dangerous. Great video guys.
Pensacola here and I completely agree
How absolutely terrifying. Those poor lads 😢
I love how you dramatise the stories with images and sounds. Excellent upload 👌😱
Glad you enjoyed it
Per the Pensacola News Journal:
McCleary had told authorities at the time that the group had set out around 1:30 p.m., but soon their raft began taking on water, so the group decided to head back to shore. But the tide fought against them, carrying them further away from shore. The weather turned, a fog rolled in and the tide kept carrying them away from land. Eventually, the group began to swim to a buoy. One of the young men began developing leg cramps, McCleary said, so he and another buddy stayed with the struggling swimmer. He lost sight of his other two friends. As night came, he would lose contact with all his buddies. McCleary kept swimming toward shore.
It was still dark when he made it back to land near Fort Pickens.
“I went into what I thought was a Coast Guard watch tower when I became cold, huddled into a corner and finally went to sleep," he told the Pensacola News Journal. He woke at 6:45 a.m. in the tower and was soon rescued. McCleary said he never saw any of the other four go under. His friends were presumed drowned and one body would later be found, with drowning listed as cause of death.
I knew this story was bullshit. Thank you.
As a native Floridan there's some things here that we don't know about or don't want to know about. And the ocean is deep and full of mystery
As A Florida Gurl, I Agree ❤❤🙏🙏
Yeah who cares about sea monsters, the florida man is a truly mysterious entity.
My gf saw a monster at crescent lake. We where there off season and caught it by surprise. The crazy thing is she had a nice camera in her hand and it scared her so much that she just froze! But I trust her completely so I know she saw it. She seen other things too in Louisiana that are unexplainable. It seems like people who see things like ghosts also see Cryptids a lot.
Welp we gunna find out one day
@@ReadyPlayerTomVR Ocean Man 🧽🍍🌊
Great story, and one I've not heard before! It's a truly sad one with four young lives lost and one changed forever.
I know I've read this story before, but I forget the book. I think in a cryptozoological book by Loren Coleman? Or maybe by Ivan Sanderson?
Pensacola native of 31 years here, I have somehow never heard this story. I am a Pensacola Historian too! Crazy!
I interviewed Brian's son and picked up some new information. Really sounds like a plesiosaur, he saw more than the head and neck. A+ job on telling of the account....VERY ACCURATE!
Whoa, really?
@@SlappedHamMysteries Yeah, it had a body, he saw the back. He did not tell his son if he saw flippers or a tail. But he did tell his son it had a body. It was also his dad's theory that it was at least in the family of a plesiosaur.
@@Adventure-Guidethanks for sharing this, I believe dinosaurs and man always lived together, it’s the dumb worldview of evolutionism that has everyone skeptical.
@Adventure-guide it would be awesome to hear a full account of your interview
@@Skizzy_276indeed
I was diving at the whiskey wreck in the Gulf and my friend and I never swam so fast to get out of the water without getting the bends from coming up to fast we saw a long neck creature with a huge body like a manatee
Hi Mark - can you expound on your story some more please ? Where abouts were you in the Gulf, (not being a diver I have no idea where "Whiskey Wreck" is) How far down where you ? Can you give a better description such as colour, overall size, neck length, shape of head, flippers or fins, teeth & mouth shape, eyes etc. ? Did you report what you saw, and if so, who did you report it to ? Did they believe you ? I wholeheartedly believe you and would love to know more - thanks.
You must have been well scared.
Pleasiosaurus, maybe ? [ Might be misspelled, sorry 😞 ] Not entirely impossible to discount the very idea ; remember 1938 or so when some African fishermen caught quite a surprise in their nets ! A Coelecanth, an armored amphibian fish, which walked on land with its fins; it was believed to be extinct 250 million years ago ! By the time scientists were able to get to where the specimen was; it had been gutted, filleted , and either eaten for food or sold, 😥. Undeterred by their failure to secure a living breathing example of such a rarity, the scientists continued probing and researching the area where the first one was caught. Their patience paid off when they finally caught a live coelecanth ; surprisingly, many more have been captured for studying. The first one was caught off the coast of Madagascar; the second 😳 off the coast of South 🇿🇦 I believe. How did they survive ? Nobody knows ! But if a 250 million year old armored amphibian fish 🐟 🤔 could survive in the sea; who knows what else might've survived as well? Our oceans cover almost 65% of the Earth's surface and are barely explored ; we know about Outer Space than our own oceans !
This is why it should be mandatory to wear a GoPro when diving. It’s a safety thing for one but also shows what you see to some extent and can give your fam some closure should you have an accident down there.
Just seems prudent.. a newer one that can go down 300ft or so is like $400 and they last years and years.
U ain’t seen shit
My great great uncle died off the coast of Pensacola in a Naval training flight. He is quite famous, Lt. Richard Sauffley , the base is called Sauffley Field and the USS Sauffley was named for him. He was the first Naval pilot shot at in combat in 1914.
Wow!! Sauffley Field Rd, etc is very famous here, if you know Pensacola, you know Sauffley! I didn't know that information as I moved from New Orleans to Pensacola when I was 16, so I don't know alot of history here like I do about Louisiana bc it's taught in school there but not here, not at my time anyway. And I don't remember my son learning much about Pensacola when he was in school either. But tysm for educating me. So I have to know, did he get any compensation? I would hope so. I'm glad his name stood for something. To be such an important person that anyone in history that knows Pensacola will know his name, that's pretty amazing. Wishing the best for you and your family. Thanks again for the education.
I grew up in Pensacola, right behind Saufley Field base off of Saufley Pine Rd. I still have relatives that live there and lots of friends that I'm in contact with. I can remember riding the bus home from school and seeing a plane crash in the woods. At that time Saufley Field was a training base for pilots at the time so it was just a little small Cessna so not an uncommon sight. But this sea monster?? Complete fabrication lol. Even the description of the weather and water is laughable!! 😅
You look for opportunities to insert that useless data, don't you?
@@gregoryl.levitre9759definitely not useless! If you're from Pensacola, you know that name.
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 Great now I am imagining every TH-cam video with "Pensacola" in the title with a "My great great uncle died off the cost of Pen..." comment in it.
Such a sad and tragic story. That poor young man. Losing 4 friends in such a horrific way. The stuff nightmares are made of...
Devastating for the families of all the young men involved... 💔 🙏
I’ve heard this tale many times and, if true, it is the most terrifying cryptid encounter I have ever come across.
It true, a plesiosaur like creatures attack those boys on that tragic day
Oh this was good! The seas are so massive, we barely know anything about what's out there 🌊
They also said Bradford Rice's body had no marks on it, he just drowned... BUT would not let anyone see anything but his head.
First time was in the Pensacola newspaper back in 76... been keeping track of it since then...
Sounds fishy as heck. Coverup mode.
fishy... lol... pun intended? lol
@@BMO_Creative Saw that but unintended 🤷♂️
I know that an examination of the body that washed ashore several days later determined the boy had died by drowning rather than in a predatory attack - leading many to suspect there was no sea monster. I have to ask though - how come none of the other bodies washed ashore?
They were eaten.
I have lived in Pensacola since 1990 and never heard of this before. Thank you for the great content and narration!
Glad you enjoyed it!
All good things are worth waiting for. Tragic and mysterious story. None the less, thank you 🖤
Sad,, I hope he was able to recover from that nightmare 😢😢
It's sad that these kids apparently never told anyone where and when they were going on their adventure. Back in the day (I was only a year old in '62) kids just did stuff, but even then you'd think they'd have told someone, who might've sent help out for them when they didn't return. Scary story. I lived in P'Cola and you'd never think....
What a heart wrenching story.
Very tragic
A very sad story with the heart breaking loss of 4 young lives. Who knows what is really in the depths of the sea?
I was waiting for a long time for an episode right now. And now it’s finally here.
Two years ago my son and I were fishing off the coast of Pensacola and saw a sea monster, a 14 foot Tiger Shark. It was chasing a very large sea turtle. To us in a 18 foot fishing boat that's a sea monster.
I had an extremely unnerving experience in that same area (off the coast of Gulf Breeze) in 1990. Not NEARLY so tragic and dramatic as this one, but freakish for ME anyway, if anyone is interested read on... And although I know this to be true, its up to people to make up their own interpretations, doubt, or belief after reading....
My family have been commercial fishermen for at least 500 years of our family history, and usually it was family run fishhouses. I was working with my uncle back then as a purseine fishermen. It was seasonal, meaning we would only do so for 9 months out of the year, and take 3 months off from it. You could either manage your money well and take a long vacation, or find some way to work those three months if your terrible with money....I'm terrible with money.
So during the off-season, we would go out off the coast, pretty far out there, to small islands where we would camp and gillnet. My cousin would do all the prep, while I had the "fun" job off sitting up at night to signal boats with a high powered flashlight. Basically if a boat came towards our corkline, I would blink the flashlight at them, then shine the light back and forth on the line so they wouldnt hit it and tear up the net or jam up their prop. But I was barely more than a teenager, and kind of irresponsible, so I would sometimes nap instead of sitting up when I was supposed to.....Well, this one time we hadnt had much luck, so we went WAY out in the gulf. There was no island anywhere nearby that we knew off, and it was just me because my cousin had gotten sick and was just going to meet me in the morning. Good, I thought....I could get some sleep. I was normally a light sleeper, and usually woke up if I heard any other traffic. You have to understand when its calm out there, other than the gentle lap of water its VERY quiet out there and sound tends to carry. Iassumed I would wake up in plenty of time to shine the light. So I drifted off. I don't know for how long but something woke me up. Almost like a "feeling" that I was being watched. It was weird.....I lay there with my eyes closed, and while I don't scare easy I had this nagging feeling that I did NOT want to sit up and look. After a moment of clearing my head I realized how irrational my fear was, so I made myself quickly sit up and turn on the light.
All I saw was a large, upright black shadow at the edge of the stern. Whatever it was, it was up WAY out of the water, at least a head and shoulders taller than me standing in the boat. And whatever it was seemed to be the same color as seaweed, As I jolted up and hit the light, IT splashed into the water. I don't know if it was leaning on the back of the boat (Which was the same size as a standard shrimping or long line boat)or if its impact into the water did it, but the whole boat rocked so violently I thought it was going to capsize for a moment. Man, I was shaking like a leaf, my brain was screaming at me to get the hell out of there, while I was frozen in place scanning the water HOPING I didnt see anything....But I did. I saw another HUGE splash, which I took as my "get the hell out of there" cue. I hauled as to the cabin, started the boat, and flew back to dock as quick as that boat would go. Leaving the net there.
My cousin was freaked out by what I described and told him, as was my uncle. I tend to be a very serious person and not much of a practical joker, nor do I really tell "Big fish" stories.....They commented on this and said it unnerved them. We went out and retrieved the net, looking for any sign of what I had seen, but didnt find anything.
That guys right....The ocean has MANY unknown secrets yet to be discovered. Because whatever the hell was out of the water watching me, made NO sense compared to any known animal.
Stay safe, and God bless.
That's sounds like a pretty scary experience! Thanks for sharing
Amazing story, I believe you.
Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks man
That could explain some missing people's cases from boats
Wow really well documented story. Love the narrators voice😊 keep up the great work
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@SlappedHamMysteries I love how you respond! Just need to get Calin to do the same! 😊
Great voice! You should have your own podcast about scary stories like this, you'd be a hit with listeners!
I was a tour guide at the historic museums of Pensacola when I was a teenager. In the Old Christ Church Pensacola Historic Museum, before it was turned back into a church, we had a library filled with books about Pensacola and the surrounding areas. I was, of course, fascinated by the books about ghost and monster stories of Pensacola and the surrounding areas.
The only, and I mean only, sea monster story was one from the late 19th or early 20th century (it's been over 30 years since I read the book). In this purportedly true story, the sea monster was not a giant one, and it also came up onto land. The description, which I cannot clearly remember, was pretty horrific. Then, one day, it was seen slinking into an abandoned shack and the local constables surrounded it and kicked in the door....
What they found was a South American river otter which, if you are not aware, stand 5 feet tall when rearing up on their hind legs and are known to kill caymans.
If there had been tales of a Pensacola sea monster in the 60s, I would have heard about it, either from the older locals or from my uncles and aunts who had lived in there since the 50s.
So, this is a neat story, but that's all it is.
The Pensacola News Journal has records of the interviews with the boy in 1962 and he never mentioned a monster. It wasn't until years later that he decided to spice it up, but not to the News Journal; to Fate Magazine. A tabloid rag that focused on the paranormal, which wasn't local.
Plesiosaur comes to mind, similar to Nessy. There's sightings all over the world. Why couldn't some survive? Great vid. 👍
Good question!
A plesiosaur cannot move its neck vertically above the water as described in the story. They can only go side to side, with little articulation up and down due to the way the neck vertebrae are shaped. Maybe it was some kind of tentacle instead of a head and neck?
Plesiosaurs are air breathers. If they survived they would probably be seen at the surface on a regular basis.
@@SlappedHamMysteriesnot really. Nothing like that has been found to exist since the extinction event that happened 65 million years ago. Also plesiosaurs were marine reptiles that had to come to the surface for air. That would make them to go undetected in modern times for this long.
@@turk914 -I'm big on an unclassified giant long neck turtle as the culprit. The remaining survivor did a drawing of the beast, which is at the end of my blog. I have a snake neck turtle as a pet and he stinks up the room when I pick it up and move it to give it's tank a clean-up. He puts out that rotten fish odor passingly mentioned in the story. Also he is very vicious when feeding, anything smaller than it gets attacked and then quickly consumed. Put aquaticandaerialanomolyassociation.blogspot.com/2016/05/stupendemys-worlds-largest-turtle.html into your browser for a Stupendemys story
Great story! I haven't heard about this before. Thanks for the shivers😮😮😊
Thanks for listening
Whatever actually happened, it was indeed, a tragedy!🙏
Also... the body that was found. Did they do an autopsy and say how he died? Was it by drowning? Attack by an animal? It would add credibility to Brian's story on how his friend died.
I was wondering that myself. He coulda been on shore for the entire week a few days, or a week after the incident. But ya, i wonder.
They will never release details to the puvlic as mass panic would ensue
@@SuperPenguin5495 Just like the mayor in the movie Jaws. If people don’t go in the ocean all the coastal businesses go bankrupt.
@@JamesMichael333 Very good comparison!
That was one of the big dismissals of it being an unknown creature. If he were killed by an animal like the one that was described there would have been evidence of an unknown creature.
Thank you Slapped Ham Mysteries I like monster stories
I'm usually more skeptical about marine cryptids than when I was a kid, but I always found this story to be terrifying. In most sailor tales, sea serpents rarely engage in predatory behavior upon humans.
Nice to see you going down the story telling route. Slapped ham to full packaged ham 😊
I was told this story roughly 20 years ago, yet until today, even with watching everything I can on cryptids and monster stories, I'd never heard it again or even seen it mentioned in any other form. I was beginning to think it wasn't an actual story.
It's definitely in a crypto book I've read, but can't remember which. Probably by Coleman or Sanderson.
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I used to fish the ocean in the North East. We would go out tens of miles, maybe more. But you need to bring the proper safety equipment. The sea is unforgiving of those that venture out unprepared....
Having worked offshore in my youth...I've seen things too that are unexplainable. To this day, thick fog scares the begeezus out of me. There ARE things in the water... but there are worse things in the air.
And even worse on land (I'm talking humans)
What did you see sir?, in the air especially? Please 😮
@MustangWriter
Are you writing a script, because that's a he** of a cliffhanger.😮
You can't leave us hanging like that!!😉
Let me get my🍿😁
Time ago I saw something about a telescope that the person who invented this bit of kit allowed him to see things in the sky, things we can not see with our naked eyes!! Scary giant things that are there all the time?? Anyone else ever see this.something about the way he set the lenses of the scope?? Opposite way to the normal set up of a telescope?? I carnt seem to find that site now, maybe taken down?? There has been other stuff about the things, creatures that live above us!!?? Just aswel we carnt see them! Someone tell me I am not the only one who knows about this??👽👻
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The world isn’t crazier than you think. It’s crazier than you can think
Yes it is
I lived in Pensacola for 20 years and didn't know this, I stopped going to Pensacola Beach because every time I did I would see a young man walking at the shore line always giving me eye contact, I was the only one that could see him. The first time I saw him I didn't realize he was a spirit but I did get a bazaar feeling.
But do you see other spirits or just him? Did you talk to him or relay a message? Just curious
@@dinkvjrthat’s a good question. My grandmother doesn’t go for this very reason. It’s where she met my step-grandfather when she remarried. They got married near the beach of Pensacola and this little girl kept following them around, just for her to find out that the little girl had died long ago. My grandmother didn’t pay it any mind and just allowed the little girl to wander about, but kept her distance.
A monster in the ocean is much more believeable then a monster in a lake.
I had the same thoughts too, until I found out that it’s a common thing for lakes and rivers to be connected by underwater cavern networks and there’s all kinds of aquatic life that can navigate them if the passageways are big enough.
You know it
I am a Pensacola native, and I have never heard of this. And neither has my family, who all are from Pensacola
Both my parents are from there and I live on the gulf. They've never told this to me and they looove stories. I've never heard of a monster story from the gulf at all
Another amazing reason to not go into the ocean. This story was haunting and it's tragic.
So sad thank you Chris from video and Slapped Ham 👍
I'ma be real with you. Having lived in Pensacola for 20+ years now I have never heard anything like this. The only real horror our beach had was when it became the depository for the BP oil rig.
Does anyone else feel like the creature in the thumbnail is more likely to give you some ancient wisdom before sending you on a quest?
New Skyrim dlc lol
More episodes like this please 😊
There are a lot of interesting stories about Pensacola...I grew up here and fished on the Massachusetts wreck. People still come up missing and never found who were on the water in the area close by called the Pass. A deep channel that leads from the bay into the gulf, which ultimately goes to the Massachusetts wreck, about 2 miles out. That channel was deep enough for the USS Lexington to come to port. I'd never heard this story before, but anything's possible in the deep blue sea...
Showing LOVE for the channel Thank You for another great video once again hamily i absolutely LOVE the new channel. Thanks again and have a blessed day everyone
Thanks so much
Love this channel. Thank you for the stories.
Glad you like them!
Aye y’all we made it to Friday! Let’s enjoy this sea monster 🐉video! 🙌🏽
Hope you enjoyed it!
To be honest the kids story matches with what these two twins saw on the coast of San Francisco a while back!
What twins
@@lawrenceprice2356 You know, those two twins, from a while back.
@@valdivia1234567 oh yeah,those two twins from san Francisco a while back. How could I forget
@lawrenceprice2356 I think they're referring to the Clark twins. They were obsessed with a supposed monster that they claimed to have seen in the SF Bay
@@lawrenceprice2356 I keep posting the link to the video but this channel or youtube keeps deleting it :/
Another great video 👍 I'm loving this new channel guys, look forward to new videos every week! Thank you
Awesome! Thank you!
Nice story, 5 boys in Holland went to surf one day, they all died, a friend of a friend was there, she turned back because of feeling in her gut, she lived
Which beach? Welk strand?
@@traceursebas Scheveningen 11 mei 2020
So smart to fire the spear gun with a red shirt on it! Ingenious
Strange how the USS Massachusetts is located in Fall River, Massachusetts and is in a museum.
I live in Mobile Alabama which isn't far from Pensacola. Ive been swimming there many times and have never heard of this monster
Same.
Never a dull moment when your in the sea.🙃🙃😱😱😱😵😵😵😨😧😨😲
Fascinating story - never heard this one . Described very well and entertaining! Theres an account of a Norwegian boat captain and his crew seeing a very similar creature that were headed to dock in Galveston . He saw the creature in the Gulf also . He put in his ship log and all his men verified the sighting. He was in his quarters when his men rushed in and told him to come up on deck . He says he looked west toward the setting sun, something huge was heading toward the ship . He said it first it looked like an old man walking with a cane as it swayed back and forth , on closer inspection he could see it was a very long necked sea serpent swaying back and forth as it thrust its body forward . All of the sudden a large school of sharks showed up in a panic heading right at the ship , dove under it and surfaced on the other side heading straight away from the sea monster . The serpent got relatively close to the ship and its shocked men . It looked at them for a minute and then sunk beneath the waves . It also resurfaced on the other side as if in pursuit of the sharks . The mans , name , date and ship are public record . More things in heaven and earth and sea than are dreamt of.
It was likely an Oarfish.
I saw the lizard man outside of Charleston in 1984 at noon sitting on the bank of thr Edisto river. I stopped on the bridge frozen with fear because I couldn't believe what i was seeing. He turned him head to look at me which we held eye contact that seemed like forever, then I was able to break my freeze and I floored it out of there in my Dodge Charger never telling a soul until about 17 years later where I saw a story on him on the world news while I was living in South Korea.
Like where did you see this was he friendly or hostile.
Nothing to fear...the lizard man was just taking a break from the Deep State.
how tall was he
We did Enjoy your narration, but what a tragic story. I thank God for my blessings after hearing this story.
Oh yes, these creatures exist everywhere. My parents and many others saw something similar one time when they were fishing at a lake. It looked like a long black log but have flippers that flaps around in the water. Everyone there saw it and started racing to their cars. I think such creatures only show themselves in special occasions and to certain people, it's like they have some kind of magical ability or something; and thunder will strike the creature if god wouldn't allow it to eat the human. I even heard about a ritual that you could do if such a creature took someone you love: you would catch 3 red crabs and cook them by the place and call on god or something because taking a human is prohibited and a big deal.
I heard that every body of water has it's own guardian- dinosaur, dragon, or whatever you wanna call it. Oh, all the stories I heard over the years...
Stories and eye witness accounts like these exist for hundreds of years, people just choose not to believe in them, but story exist because things exist.
Interesting story, I believe. Plus man have always lived with dinosaurs/dragons according to the biblical saga.
Lived here in P'cola all my 50 years. Aint never heard of any stupid tale about some crazy sea creature around these parts.
I’m enjoying all the slapped ham channels they’re awesome 👏 ❤
Shipwreck survivors have reported sighting long necked turtles with an 8 ft wide carapace while adrift in the Caribbean Sea.
Never have I ever held onto my seat from a TH-cam video story.
Don't hear about this story much. I love that even people that grew up around here have never heard it.
I am a life long river rat from South Ga - Darien to be exact, seen a giagantic creature in 94 or 95 with my wife Kelly at the time I only could explain as a large snake / gator creature.... Reports go back to the days before colonizatiion in Indian tales .. Plus in the early 1800's we had reports of a similar creature being seen by sail schooners that actually fired on said creatures... The one we seen estimated 50 to 70 ft long 10 ft diameter and it breathed air because it surfaced behind us as we were anchored fishing for catfish in a deep hole where the Cathead river meets the Darien river..... We first seen it undulating up and down towards us right off the cut bank then it dived under and the fish stopped biting and you could feel this weird drumming sound in the water up through the floor of our jon boat... My wife almost flipped us over trying to get to me (I guess she thought i could protect her if it was hostile because I always carry a 9mm pistol lmao). Any way as we stood motionless I heard it break the surface behind me very stealthly and breath, I turned my head ever so slightly to see a reptilianish head (gator like) but with what looked to be wiskers..?... Then another smaller one came up next and it was "cute" but as soon as they were checking us out a boat came racing down the river and they quickly dived never to reemerge again... Swear to God that is what happened and I seen.......
That was almost believable until I smelled bullshit.
@@Sandman_Slim Well you can smell whatevers, I know what I seen...
If you didn't completely make up the story you probably saw an Oarfish.
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 True story and really believe it was a pod of manatees.... Oarfish dont live in freshwater nor have wiskers / breath air... It had to be manatees because of the wiskers it really looked like a giant snake, maybe its how a pod of manatees move when it murky water in a line undulating up and down...? Thats my best guess...? or..........??
In ‘85 my younger brother and I were at Utah lake down by the abandoned boat launch and harbor in American fork…we used to hang out there all the time fishing and swimming the lake was flooded at that time the original jetty and boat launch were swamped in a few feet of water it was overcast and had been raining earlier that day…we dropped our lines in the water but nothing was biting and we gave up fishing and found a section of dock that had been floating aimlessly around the launch and we were swimming and diving off this thing I looked up at one point to the west and just coming into view from a large area of half submerged bushes and small trees was a very large snake…rather unremarkable except for its size the other interesting part was the way it swam…every other snake I’ve seen swimming did so in a sidewinder kind of style,making s shapes going side to side like a desert rattlesnake…this creature swam with its head and about 3 feet of body elevated above the surface…exactly how they describe “sea serpents “ swimming with loops of body carried above the surface..this one had three loop sections visible plus his head and neck..i would conservatively estimate his total length at around 23 to 25 feet…easily there was about 18 to 24 inches of water separating the visible loop portions and I’m sure there was a lot of the animal under the water that was not visible to us.. I’d say his head was the size of a healthy papaya…his body girth I’d put at about 10”-12” not the biggest snake in the world or even the biggest I’ve seen in person..his coloring was very close to a carps.. like a dirty gold bronze on top and a dirty off white yellowed ivory color underneath…rough keeled scales and black eyes…what was he? A freakishly large common water snake? Idk but both my bro and I were pretty fearless when it came to the local fauna and I had worked at an exotic pet store and the monte l bean museum caring for all manner of exotic animals insects and reptiles…my brother and I would routinely capture rattlesnakes and other specimens and we were very confident but neither one of us made any suggestions of trying to catch or tangle with that bad boy… true account
Love this channel. I like a good mystery, but this one was sad
The boy told the truth.
Yes, he had a tragic encounter with a plesiosaur
I live 50 miles away in Mobile, AL and have never heard of this. Too freaky.
You've never heard of it, because its made up.
I live in Mobile too and have never heard this.
Hey,that's my hometown. You wanna know where a haunted neighborhood is? Lol
Those poor boys...
-Tucker
First heard of this story back in the early ‘80s (the Usborne Monster book, from 1977). Creepy tale.
This kinda reminds me of the Werner Herzog movie he made about Loch Ness. Even though at the beginning of the movie W. Herzog mentions that although the legend does interest him, he did not believe in the actual existence of the creature. But in the 2nd part of the movie, they lose a young biologist in the water and his body was never found and this was because their boat was being attacked by something big and Werner himself fell into the water w/his waterproofed camera and his camera DID catch something REAL BIG swim by his side that wasn`t a sturgeon or large conger eel, but something waaay bigger.
I suggest u seek this movie out. Its` very good and extremely amazing.
Can you give us the name of the movie?
The movie is kind of fun, but it is fiction.
I’ve lived around here for 8 years. Never heard of this till this video
Yeah, there's a reason I will *NEVER* take a long sea voyage. Being swallowed by horrors beyond my imagination, is just.... something I don't ever want to encounter in this lifetime.
I never heard this sad story before - kudos for finding a relatively unknown story for the channel. It is sad though.
I live in Pensacola..never heard of this..but i guess you never know whats out there
Very cool. Thanks for researching and uploading!
Our pleasure!
This guys voice is what got me to watch this.
damn ai
No mention was made of the state of the body that was washed up- no post mortem results, which is what everyone would've expected
Look it up. The body was too decomposed and was nibbled on by sea creatures. No way to determine what killed him.
That was great ! I love this channel.keep up the great work
That was great👍🏻 Thanks Kallen!
Glad you liked it!
Really enjoy your new channel. My late husband was from Florida. He used to tell me stories of the swamps. 🇺🇲☮️👻🪦
Care to share one of those stories?
Awesome new channel. I’m hooked on The Ham!!
Welcome aboard!
Bull sharks happened to the boys!!! There are hundreds of them here with many Tiger Sharks too. no sea monsters though I have lived here for 63 years .
Giant prehistoric turtle, like Champ.
Sea serpents are very real.
The fact that the body that washed up had no bite marks suggests no sea monster
No, it suggest that he drowned and the plesiosaur didn’t attack him, however 3 others weren’t as fortunate.
Simply wow never knew this story.
I may have seen that thing while on a catamaran offshore of Biloxi, circa 1978 when I was stationed there in the AF! Why I was on a catamaran right after watching Jaws on base, I can't say!
Thank you, Kallen I love this channel❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
They need to make a movie off this and make into an actual horror. The kind that can leave you feeling terrified of the ocean. A24 or Blumhouse should pick this up
There isn't enough story for a movie.
Blumhouse is trash. But I’d like to see a movie
@@DaveyJones26 just watch Jaws. A movie about this story would be boring until the last few minutes.
jeez, i love the slapped ham mysteries..really fixated viewing and cant wait for them to drop into my notifications 😁
tragic story to say the least 😢
Scientists only know about 5% of the ocean..so what lives in there is a true mystery indeed 🤔
Yes I’ve heard of it I’m from the state
Thanks for verifying it