"The human instinct to observe nature has always been mixed with a tendency to embroider upon it. So it is that, over the ages, societies have lived alongside not only real animals, but a shadow bestiary of fantastic ones - mermaids, griffins, unicorns and the like. None loomed larger than the giant squid, the kraken, a great, malevolent devil of the deep. "One of these Sea-Monsters," Olaus Magnus wrote in 1555, "will drown easily many great ships."

link for you...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/weekinre...html?oref=login

Ill be sure to bring my Shotgun next time i go sialing the seas

Sorry, but I doubt a shotgun will do much good here, haha.

haha this reminds me of the evil dead.

Not a bad article.

Its amazing how big a deal we make of giant squid when the familiar sperm whales apparently gobble them up by the million. I believe I had read that one sperm whale had something like 10,000 indigestible squid beaks in its stomach and intestines. But I suppose a sperm whale would have a lot less to fear when facing down a giant squid than we puny humans.