GIANT OCTOPUS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 17

GIANT OCTOPUS

20-FOOT TENTACLES

Captain A.liailey, master of the liner Empress pi! Asia, reported sighting a monster of. the deep on liis last voyage from-, Yokhhama to Vancouver, 8.C., in a message to E. T. Stebbing, the New York agent of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Line. The captain reported there were many strange monsters in the depths of the Pacific and Indian Oceans which rarely rise to the surface when a vessel is near enough to sight them. This was the second he had seen in thirty-nine years in the Pacific trade. "The monster was more than thirty feet long, ten feet beam," Captain Hailey said, "and might be classed as a giant octopus. It was about six feet through the thickest part near the head. The tentacles, spread out fanliko ahead, were fully twenty feet long, so far as we could see | from the bridge, as part of them was submerged. "The octopus had large yellow eyes with green and red centres that glared balefully at the misty morning light. The colour of the monster was a dirty greasy piulc. "A light fog prevailed at the time, aud the hideaus creature was not observed until it was quite close to us on the starboard bow. We passed about 200 feet away from it, and the monster made no effort to flee. "These creatures are horrible things to look upon and arc what one usually associates with nightmares. 'Unfortunately it was a damp day, and the weather screens were up, so none of tho passengers on deck saw the huge monster, which soon slipped past the ship."