Amateur-Historian and Blogger on the search for the true identity of "sea monster" carcasses.
Markus Hemmler
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German version (part 1 of 2) of my article about the Gourock sea serpent of 1942. netzwerk-kryptozoologie.de/die-seeschla...
Markus Hemmler
#baskingshark washed up at Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA). Necropsy on it's way. www.facebook.com/share/p/16MA...
The Stronsa animal comes home... orcadian.co.uk/monster-rema...
With the assistance of Michel Raynal and myself, Karl Shuker reveals intriguing insights about the spotted bushbuck, an animal from which the German artist Moritz Pathé once obtained a skin and conducted an extensive search. karlshuker.blogspot.com/2025/07/spot...
Reconstruction of the 1932 Grobler/Johanson case: the original ‘Kassaisaurus’ report including photographs and its later transformation into the pop-cultural ‘Kasai Rex’ motif. Review of Schomburgk’s ‘Chimpekwe’ accounts in context. globsterblobsandmore.com/more/kassais...
Markus Hemmler
In July 1932, the South African Franz Grobler reported in the Cape Argus on his investigations in Central Africa concerning a creature referred to by local populations as the ‘Chepekwé’ or ‘water lion...
Yesterday, an unfortunate 7m-long basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) was caught by trammel nets in Port de la Selva (NE Spain), close to shore. Sightings of this species start to be more frequent along the Catalan Coast at this time of the year, likely driven by ++[phytoplankton] in the region.
Markus Hemmler
Markus Hemmler
Markus Hemmler
Time lapse video of today’s basking shark necropsy led by @shellspc.bsky.social. Three hours of work condensed into just over a minute. 🦈
Identified as parts from a "seven-arm octopus" Haliphron atlanticus, an unexpected discovery.
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach in Aberdeenshire.
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People believe what they want to believe. My brother found a blobby "sea monster" on a beach, insists it's a plesiosaur. I brought the vertebrae to an icthyologist, he said it's a basking shark....my brother still insists it's a sea monster conspiracy.
Here's a coda to @globsterblobsandmore.com's most excellent work on a mystery "living dinosaur" from the 1930s. moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/t...
The remains of an Orkney “sea monster” will be on show in the county, returning for what is believed to be the first time in over 200 years. Since a storm brought the remains of the Stronsay Beast to ...
A new scholarly article fills gaps in the history of a “living dinosaur” cryptid from the 1930s that eventually became a completely fictional pop cryptid of today.
Reconstruction of the 1932 Grobler/Johanson case: the original ‘Kassaisaurus’ report including photographs and its later transformation into the pop-cultural ‘Kasai Rex’ motif. Review of Schomburgk’s ‘Chimpekwe’ accounts in context. globsterblobsandmore.com/more/kassais...
Arms from the rarely-seen species were discovered at an Aberdeenshire national nature reserve.
In July 1932, the South African Franz Grobler reported in the Cape Argus on his investigations in Central Africa concerning a creature referred to by local populations as the ‘Chepekwé’ or ‘water lion...
