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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Here Be Dragons

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8922 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Through nearly all time, humankind believed in leviathans and krakens and mermaids. People didn't give up believing in sea monsters until the turn of the 20th century. Then, in 1925, one washed up on the shores of Santa Cruz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9

An item from the Santa Cruz Sentinel published in the summer of 1925.

1:10.1

E.J. Lear said he was driving near the beach when he spotted

1:13.8

an odd sight out past the breakers. A dozen or more sea lions were worked into a lather,

1:20.2

and Lear thought it seemed that they were attacking something. A big fish, maybe, he thought.

1:25.4

But in the course of watching the fray, the lion's target breached

1:28.9

several times, and Lear amended his theory. Not a fish, but some sort of sea monster. He estimated

1:35.7

its length at 30 feet. E.J. Lear was a family man. Well enough respected in the community.

1:43.1

Still, there were reasons to doubt his account,

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