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Sea Serpent at Devil’s Head

March 21, 2013 Secretary of State's Office

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Sea serpent stories are developing into a subgenre in this column. Although the creature described here resembles the “DungeNessie” serpent sighted in 1892 in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, this particular sighting took place very near to the 1899 episode of The Sea Serpent That Got Away. This article was found in the Dec. 7, 1855 issue of the Puget Sound Courier, published out…

DungeNessie

September 20, 2012 Secretary of State's Office

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Shortly after losing the status of Clallam County seat in an election in 1890, many in the town of New Dungeness picked up and moved across the river forming a community called, interestingly enough, Dungeness. This new hamlet even had an optimistic (although short-lived) newspaper: The Dungeness Beacon. The following item was found at random in the July 29, 1892 issue, reprinted from Port Townsend’s…

The Sea Serpent That Got Away

April 13, 2012 Secretary of State's Office

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: After reading this description of a sea serpent as described on page 7 of the June 30, 1899 issue of The Tacoma Evening News, can anyone out there familiar with the creatures in Puget Sound identify what they really caught? LOST THEIR SEA SERPENT Party of Scientists Shipwrecked Off Moskito Island Collecting Specimens of Giant Barnacles, Sponges, Sea Cucumbers and Other Things For The Ferry…

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