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« on: December 26, 2010, 05:14:18 pm »

Another six sightings occurred in 1976 - a family spotted the beast at the mouth of the river Helford once more; a sailor saw a forty foot long 'worm-like' creature pass by as he sailed about thirty miles north-west of the Scilly Isles; a couple in a motorboat saw two large humps in the water off Restronguet Point and a man described a creature like a gigantic eel with humps on its back swimming offshore at Gyllyngvase.

On the 9th July 1976 another local newspaper the Western News, published a report of two fishermen who saw the creature, who said that;

It looked like an enormous tyre about four feet up in the water, with a back like corrugated iron. We came towards it and it could have woken up, because a great head like an enormous seal came out of the water. It just turned it's long neck, looked at us, and slowly submerged. The body was black and the head was grey, and we saw a total length of about 22 feet.

After the long hot summer of 1976 the Morgawr seems to have made itself scarce once more until the January of 1992, when a couple walking along the cliffs in Falmouth saw a creature which they described as looking very much like the Loch Ness Monster.

Then in 1999, at Gerran's Bay a former higher scientific officer at the Natural History Museum by the name of John Holmes claimed to have videotaped the Morgawr. Mr. Holmes of St Austell sat on the film for three years (for fear of being ridiculed) and whilst he believes it to be a genuine monster, one Mike Thomas, the managing director of Newquay Zoo, having examined the video footage believes that Mr Holmes' has captured nothing more exciting than a sunfish.

At least the majority of the sightings offer a fairly consistent description of the monster, in that it appears to be a hump-backed creature around twenty feet long with a long neck. Whether it actually exists or is merely the product of the collective imagination remains an open question but various explanations have been offered as to what the Morgawr might be, aside from the obvious one that it is entirely the invention of the Cornish tourist industry;
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