Case file · Cryptid
The Portugal Cove giant squid
In October 1873 fishermen near Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, fought off a huge squid that grabbed their boat; a boy chopped off a tentacle, which the Reverend Moses Harvey obtained and studied.
1873 CE · 47.63, -52.86 · status: explained
The account
Weeks later Harvey photographed a whole giant squid draped over his bathtub in St. John's. Together these specimens helped turn the kraken from legend into zoology.