SEA SERPENT ONCE AGAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 33, 2 October 1912, Page 2

SEA SERPENT ONCE AGAIN.

MISS RIDER HAGGARD SAW IT,

Miss Rider Haggard, daughter of the famous novelist, is convinced she has just seen the sea serpent off Kessingland Grange, her father’s house near Lowestoft. She says:— “What looked like a thin, dark line, with a blob at one end, shooting through the winter at such a terrific speed that it hardly seemed possible anything alive could go at such a pace.” Sir Rider Haggard announced his daughter’s experience in the following letter to the Eastern Daily Press; — “In the hop© that it may elicit an explanation, I enclose a portion of the letter I received this morning from my daughter (Miss Rider Haggard), who is staying at my house, Kessingland Grange, near Lowestoft.

“(1) Has anybody else seen a peculiar creature in the sea. off the East Coast?

“(2) Could what my daughter and her two companions saw have been a school of porpoises travelling at a great rate?”

The letter from Miss Rider Haggard to her father is as follows: “We had a. great excitement here this evening, and are convinced we have seen a sea serpent. I happened to look up when I was sitting on the lawn, and saw what looked like a thin dark line ,with a blob at one end, shooting through the water at such a terrific speed it hardly seemed possible anything alive could go at such a pace. It was some way out over the sandbank, and travelling parallel with the shore.

“I tore into the morning-room and got the glasses, and though it had in that moment nearly vanished in the distance, we could make out it had a sort of head at one end, and then a series of about thirty pointed, blobs, which dwindled in size as they neared the tail. As it went along it seemed to get more and more submerged, and then vanished. Yon can’t imagine the pace it was going. T suppose it was about sixty feet long.” Miss Rider Haggard appended to her letter a rough sketch of the object she saw.