Paul Bartsch’s fantastical images of a #GiantSquid cosplaying as a #SeaSerpent on the ocean’s surface. In life #Architeuthis in fact appears to keep its tentacles completely retracted and these poses are almost certainly physically impossible. Also — WHY would they make sea-serpent shapes?!? #Cryptozoology #Skepticism

@llewelly I’m starting to come around to the idea of an #Architeuthis being behind the Hotel specimen after all! I suspect the two incidents have cross-contaminated one another upon further recollection — the “hook” in Dudoward’s illustration is plainly not at the end of a 100’ appendage! And we know from the “plastic” description you noticed the story definitely mutated over time.

#DudowardsSquid (14/13)

How can I forget #BernardHeuvelmans ? Everybody’s favorite wacky #Cryptozoologist speculated the Log Boom squid was an #Architeuthis with a 25 meter (82’) head and body judging by sucker size. Okay! That’s only 10 times larger than any known #GiantSquid

As for the Hotel Squid, he concludes the missing tentacle must have been lost in a battle. He invented a battle!

These are excerpts from his book, ‘Kraken & The Colossal Octopus’:

#DudowardsSquid (9/?)

The Ultra-Thorough #Wikipedia article on #GiantSquid specimens purposefully excludes this case and, interestingly, it appears Dudoward’s observations are outside of their normal range. It would be REALLY NICE if somebody took a photo of — or saved specimens from! — the squid in front of the hotel so there would be a definitive first #Architeuthis from British Columbia… alas…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_and_sightings

#DudowardsSquid (8/?)

The #FreeCryptidIdea of a colossal 100+ foot squid LARVAE (to what? WHO KNOWS) is… eh… not likely. Drat.

LeBlond and Sibert give commentary on the case in their 1973 publication and conclude it was a #GiantSquid #Architeuthis and Michael Bright regards it as a likely Architeuthis in his 1989 ‘There Are Giants in the Sea’ — https://archive.org/details/therearegiantsin0000brig/page/140/mode/2up