Five teenage boys went skin diving off Pensacola in 1962. Only one came back. Carol Ann traces the sea serpent sightings that actually hold up, from the Pensacola incident to the 1965 Alvin submarine encounter to the 1848 HMS Daedalus report.
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Sources and credits
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