The Kraken
 
 

                 Not one legendary monster was more terrifying than the Kraken.The stories told about the huge octopus with many, many arms said that it could reach so high it could touch a ship's main mast.When the Kraken attacked a ship it would wind its arms around the hull and turn it upside down.The group of sailers would drown or be eaten by the Kraken, the neat thing about the Kraken's stories is that out of every single sea creature there is enough evidence that the Kraken is real.The first stories about the Kraken, that came from Norway in the twelfth century, refer to a monster that is about the size of an island."Even in 1752, when the bishop of bergen, Eric Ludvicsen Pontoppidan, wrote his The Natural History of Norway he discribed the Kraken as a" floating island" one and a half miles across.He also noted:"It seems theese are the creature's arms, and, it is said if there were to lay hold of the largest man of war, they would pull it down to the bottom." Later stories of the Kraken bring the creature down to a smaller but, still monsterous size.The Kraken of legend is probably what we know today as the giant squid.