Nordic folklore speaks of a massive creature that haunted the icy seas of the North Sea, where it attacked passing vessels with gigantic tentacles.
And conspiracy theorists claims to have spotted this mythical Kraken swimming off the coast of Deception Island near Antarctica.
Using Google Earth, this sea monster appears to be 120m from head to end, with ‘the mid area of a giant squid’.
‘It looks like the Kraken,’ Scott C Waring shared on UFO Sightings Daily.com.
‘I used Google ruler and it says this is 30 meters (100 feet) from head to end, but the end looks like just the mid area of a giant squid, which means it could be 60+ meters long with tentacles.
‘That sounds like the Kraken to me.’
The sighting occurred on April 9, 2016, when Waring looked at the coordinates 63° 2’56.73″S 60°57’32.38″W in Google Earth – although it is not clear how or where he obtained these exact coordinates.
Waring also thought of the extinct prehistoric animal Plesiosaur when he spotted the massive beast causing ‘a massive disturbance in the ocean’.
Another conspiracy theorist has posted about the find, but with a different opinion about the large object.
‘But if you look more closely it looks like an artificially made object, an underwater UFO coming out of the ocean,’ the unknown author shared on UFO Sightings Hotspot.
A video of the unusual sighting was posted on YouTube by uploader Wowforreeel.