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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: Could Sea Monsters/Serpents Still Exist?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Since before the dawn of recorded history, humans have been haunted by rumors of monsters beneath the waves -- and, as time wore on, it seemed at least some of those legends were based in truth. Today's question: could any sea serpents, leviathans or other cryptids remain alive in the modern day? Tune in to learn more.

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0:00.0

Oh, friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realist,

0:03.9

Ahoy, sailors.

0:05.4

We have investigated at length the idea of a continuing fascination,

0:10.9

cryptids.

0:12.5

And I think we were all,

0:14.8

we were all just unanimously astounded by the idea that there could have been large creatures

0:25.5

in the out there beneath the waves in recent periods of history recent enough that human

0:33.2

beings may have run into them uh guys i spent a lot of time looking out over the ocean in one of our previous maritime

0:42.7

adventures.

0:43.7

I saw some unusual stuff, but I didn't see a sea serpent.

0:47.5

Did you?

0:48.5

Never seen one.

0:49.4

Hope to never do, because that is one of my all-time night terrors, I think I've mentioned,

0:53.8

being present in a giant

0:55.6

body of water with a sea serpent lurking just beneath the waves. Even if it's not one that's

1:00.8

going to eat me, just the large underwater-dwelling creatures freak me out. Dude, I often stand

1:07.2

astride, a ship and look out and imagine Jason Statham when that Meglodon attacked. I don't know.

1:16.6

Megasar? I haven't seen the movie. I haven't seen the movie. Yeah. Whatever it is.

1:19.5

The first Meg is a lot of fun. I think the second one diminishing returns. But I watched the first one. It's a good plane movie. Do check it.

1:26.3

Yeah. Well, the point is, there were,

1:29.4

like, sea serpents and all kinds of craziness out there in the ocean, giant sharks like that.

1:34.8

There have been those, but could there be one or some or a bunch of them remaining?

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