Comments on: The Curious Case of the Bottled Sea Serpent for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:51:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: springheeledjack Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:51:03 +0000 As always, my biggest problem with an eel being the culprit for most sea serpent sightings (and even lake critters) is that their bodies are basically snake like in a lot of respects to vertebrae.

Many sea serpent sightings involve a head and neck coming up out of the water, and often significantly–lie 2-6 feet up, and for an eel to do that, it would have to lay sideways and stick its head straight up. While that may be plausible, it would not reflect the accounts where a sea serpent has its head perpendicular to the neck (or thereabuots), and moving in the same direction the head is pointing.

Same goes for the sighting of humps in the water–unless again, the eel is swimming on the surface on its side. Yeah.

I’m not saying this article is bunk–it makes a good argument for really large eels out there. However, I don’t but the argument for giant eels as an explanation for the history of sea serpent (and lake critter) sightings.