ON FRIDAY, JAN. 26, 1934, the Port Angeles Evening News ran an astounding story. The story was so big, I cannot understand why it was relegated to page 8.

The telling of events was by Charles D. Lewis, a noted Port Angeles fisherman. Lewis was the manager of the J. C. Penney store. Here is the story as Lewis told it.

“I had hooked a 75 pound black mouth salmon inside the harbor Wednesday. I was using an eight ounce pole, five pound test line and had played the big fish for four hours and 37 minutes when I saw what looked like a long series of cork floats on a fisherman’s net come rushing toward the boat. As the object came nearer I saw that it was Hiaschuckaluk, the sea serpent, and what I thought were cork floats were wart-like growths along the monster’s back. I got a good glimpse of

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