Raouché destination for locals and visitors alike. Raouché also is claimed to be the remains of a sea monster the Greek hero Perseus killed to save Andromeda. The stone is rock as Perseus used Medusa’s head on the monster to turn it into stone. Some historians believe that the word "raouché" derives from the Aramaic word "rosh" or Arabic word "ras", both meaning head. Other historians argue that it is a corruption of the French word "roche" ("rocher"), meaning rock. The shores near Raouché have yielded the area's oldest evidence of human existence, flints and basic stone tools, which are displayed
Sea monster whole ship. Other reports are known from the Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans (e.g. see Heuvelmans 1968). There is a Tlingit legend about a sea monster named Gunakadeit (Goo-na'-ka-date) who brought prosperity and good luck to a village in crisis, people starving in the home they made for themselves on the southeastern coast of Alaska. Ellis (1999) suggested the Egede monster might have been a giant squid. Other hypotheses are that modern-day monsters are surviving specimens of giant marine reptiles, such as an ichthyosaur or plesiosaur, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, or extinct whales like "Basilosaurus". Ship damage from