'Sea monster' spotted on Google

22 June 2016 - 10:15 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A ''sea monster'' has been spotted on Google Earth near Antarctica, and it has driven people into a frenzy as they tried to figure out what it is. Is it a kraken? Or something less terrifying?Scott Waring of UFO Sighting Daily thinks it could be a sea monster."This looks like the kraken. I used Google ruler and it says this is 30m from head to end, but the end looks just like the mid area of a giant squid, which means it could be 60 plus metres long with tentacles. That [looks] like a kraken to me," he wrote.A kraken is a mythical tentacled monster known in tales of the sea for drowning people and ships.The picture was taken near Deception Island in the South Shetlands and appears to show a "fin".Some think it could be the Loch Ness monster, but others reckon it could be an underwater UFO.Some have a more rational explanation. We share our planet with some huge sea creatures - but not krakens - so it is probably more plausible it is a blue whale or another large animal.This won't stop conspiracy theorists saying it is a UFO full of aliens coming to eat us all.Because we have better quality photographic equipment, and don't have to rely on word-of-mouth reports from sailors, sightings of krakens and other sea monsters have gone down.However, grainy satellite images often still show images that paranoid minds can mistake for ships or monsters from outer space.Do you think we have found a kraken? See for yourself at: 63°2'56.73"S 60°57'32.38"W...

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