A giant sea monster washed ashore in 1896, sparking a scientific feud that lasted a full century. The remains were massive, with strange tentacle-like appendages, and it was found in St.
On November 30, 1896, two boys riding bicycles along the beach of Anastasia Island, near St. Augustine, Florida, found a large object half-buried in the sand. The tide was out, and the mass was pale, rubbery, and roughly the size of a small house. The boys did not touch it and rode back to town to report what they had seen.Word spread quickly, and residents came out to examine the object. Among th…