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The Nantucket Sea Monster
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Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a news flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island. Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships. Eyewitnesses swore this wasnt a whale, but some new, fearsome creature. As eyewitness account piled up, newspaper stories of the sea monster spread quickly. Across the nation, people shivered in fear. Then, footprints were found on a Nantucket beach. Photographs were sent to prominent biologists for their opinion. Discussion swirled about raising a hunting party. On August 18, news spread across the island: the sea monster had been captured. Islanders ran to the beach and couldnt believe their eyes. This nonfiction picture book is a perfect tool to discuss non-political fake news stories. Back matter discusses the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Quotes from Thomas Jefferson make it clear that fake news has always been one of the costs of a free press. A Timeline lists actual events in the order they occurred. A vocabulary list defines relevant words.

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The Nantucket Sea Monster: A Fake

News Story

by Darcy Pattison

Illustrated by Peter Willis

2017 Mims House.

Mims House

1309 Broadway

Little Rock, AR 72202

MimsHouse.com

Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication data

Names: Pattison, Darcy, author.

Title: The Nantucket sea monster :

a fake news story / by Darcy Pattison.

Description: Little Rock, AR: Mims

House, 2017.

Identifiers: ISBN 978-1-62944-082-8

(Hardcover) | 978-1-62944-083-5 (pbk.) |

978-1-62944-084-2 (ebook) | LCCN

2017904671

Summary: In August 1937 the local paper reported that a sea monster had been spotted

near Nantucket, illuminating both the importance and cost of a free press.

Subjects: LCSH Hoaxes--Juvenile literature. | Freedom of the press--United

States--Juvenile literature. | Impostors and imposture--Juvenile literature. | Decep-

tion--Juvenile literature. | Hoaxes--History--20th century--Juvenile literature. |

Nantucket Island (Mass.)--History--20th centuryJuvenile literature. |

BISAC JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / State & Local |

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Science / Politics & Government

Classification: LCC Z658.U5 P38 2017 | DDC 363.31/0973--dc23

Tuckernuck Island

Nantucket

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ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-330-7 (e-book)

Synched Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

PO Box 573

Prior Lake, MN 55372

August 7, 1937 was a warm

Saturday on Nantucket

Island, just off the

coast of Cape Cod,

Massachusetts.

Squam Pond

Mandaket Beach

Coatue Beach

Nantucket

Island

South Beach

Across the island, people opened the weekly edition of The Inquirer

and Mirror

newspaper and spread it out. There, in the middle of the

front page, was a startling headline:

A SEA MONSTER

BILL MANVILLE SAYS HE SAW ONE

OFF NANTUCKET. INSISTS HE WAS

NOT DREAMING. HOPES IT APPEARS

AGAIN TO VERIFY HIS STORY.

People read the incredible story from fisherman Bill Manville.

On Wednesday August 4, hed been out in his boat looking for

bluefish, as it was about the time they showed up. After hours with no

luck, he discovered the reason for the missing fish.

He saw a terrible looking head rise 15-20 feet above the water.

It wasnt a whale, he insisted. I saw the thing with my own eyes

about 9:30 this morning.

The newspaper story ended:

"Now we are waiting to hear from

someone else who saw it."

Not A

whale!

Someone else had seen the sea monster. Businessman and sportsman

Ed Crocker wrote a letter to the newspaper. He said that on August 4,

the same day as Bill Manville, he saw the denizen of the deep.

On Monday, August 9, Gilbert Gibby Manter was also looking for

bluefish. Instead, a flock of gulls flew overhead acting like they were

frightened. And then, he saw it just outside the breaker waves, closer to

the tiny Tuckernuck Island than to Nantucket.

The sea monsters head was ugly, with something looking like horns.

A light streak ran along its dark greenish side. The back humped out of

the water.

Do you think it was the same thing that Manville saw? asked the

newspaper editor.

I guess t was the same creature all right, Gibby said.

"I've never seen

anything like it."

The story was gaining credibility. After all, the newspaper printed the

stories, so it had to be true. More and more people believed the impos-

sible: a sea monster was hovering around their island. And they were

scared.

Ed and Gibby decided to investigate together. On Tuesday, August

10, they were walking along Mandaket Beach when they found something

incredible.

Excited, they called the newspaper, who sent photographers.

The footprints appeared to be from a web-footed animal. They

measured about long by wide.

A second set of footprints was reported near Smiths Point

and was soon photographed. It was reported that these were the

first photographs ever made of a sea monsters tracks.

The newspaper editor telegraphed scientists in Boston and

New York for help in identifying the monster: Can send

picture for inspection if desired.

FOOTPRINTS!

if the footprints were that Big ,

how big was the monster itself?

it's a

killer!

Later on August 10, the word spread as friends talked to

friends: The sea monster had been captured!

People flooded the docks to see it .

just a

whale!

Captain Balfour Yerxa came in. Instead of the sea monster, he

had caught three big sand sharks. The sea monster was still out

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