(SA) Baxter's Run

Adventure! Ron Evans takes us on a terrifying adventure to seek a monster of the deep in a story called Baxter's Run. If I wasn't seen it here with my own eyes, I'd say it's impossible.

Well, there it is, Mr. Mary. All 145 feet of it. One single tentacle. That's incredible. I've worked out the creature's size as being over 200 feet long. That's some squid, Paul. I wonder what happened to the rest of it.

I guess it was old. Perhaps died and the sharks took the body. Look here. See how chunks have been ripped off the tentacle? Yeah. That's right. See what you mean. When did you find it?

Two days ago. One of the local fishermen spotted it lying on the beach as he was passing and came ashore to investigate. When he got back to Port Hampton, he phoned me. He took a few photos and measurements and then called you.

What was its condition when you first saw it? Just beginning to putrify it. Well, I've seen it up here. Let's go back to your place and talk it over. I'd like to see the pictures and the tissue samples you took.

What you're hearing is an incident that happened a couple of years ago. My name is Paul Steadley, among the South African. At the time I was working as an observer for the Australian Ocean of Graphic Institute.

I lived in a small house provided by them, a few miles north of the small fishing town of Port Amton. The man I'd caught up from Sydney to see the great tentacle was John Merrick, a director of the Institute.

He had been astounded to see the massive rotting squid tentacle lying there on the beach of a remote barrier reef island And our minds boggled at the thought of how massive the creature had been Back at my house. I made coffee and showed Merrick the notes I've made Jim, I never take these back to Sydney with me. Oh, not at all. I'll send photocopies back to you