Five boys went into the water and only one came back.
Only one boy returned.
Then, the newly turbulent waters started to carry the raft out to sea.
The boys tried to attach their raft to a bouy but were unable to do so.
At that point they boys left the raft to attempt to swim to shore.
According to McCleary, a fog appeared and from the fog emerged a sea monster.
Brians friends werepicked off one by one by the sea monster.
Brian was found asleep on the shore the next day.
He said that for the first time in his life he was really scared.
Drawing by Brian McCleary.
Rice said, were dead.
We died in that storm.
But Ruyle assured him that they would be fine.
Cecil the seasick sea monster
Visibility was limited to 25 feet and there was no wind.
McCleary says the water was unusually warm.
Larry suddenly said, Shhhh, I hear a boat or something.
As they listened the air became filled with the odor of dead fish.
They heard a large splash about 40 feet away.
The wave that followed was large enough to break over the side of the raft.
It was about 10 feet out of the water.
Then the object bent in half and dove under the water.
There was a period of silence followed by a high-pitched whine coming out from the fog.
At this point the boys panicked.
They put on their fins and dove into the water.
The surface was covered with patches of brown, crusty slime.
The group swam towards the wreck, with McCleary and Ruyle in the lead.
Behind them they could hear splashing and hissing.
Although the fog was clearing, it had begun to rain again.
It was getting dark and the waves were picking up.
The first scream lasted maybe half a minute.
Felley cried, its got Brad!
His voice was suddenly cut off.
McCleary yelled back to Felley and Rice but there was no response.
Bill was now swimming with Ruyle and McCleary.
Some time passed before McCleary became aware that Bill was no longer with them.
Then a flash of lightning revealed the wreck of the Massachusetts.
Another flash revealed Ruyle swimming ahead of McCleary towards the ship.
Then the telephone-pole creature surfaced next to Ruyle.
It had two small eyes.
It opened its mouth and fell upon Ruyle, disappearing with him below the surface.
Somehow McCleary made it to shore, although he doesnt remember how.
Next he woke up in the Pensacola Naval Base hospital.
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Brian McCleary was depressed in the months after the event as no one would believe him.
Lake Kivu in Africa is another example of methane fog and explosions.
The bubble isnt weather, more like a short event that most of the time goes unnoticed.
So there would have been no fog or storm in the weather records for that day.
The monster could have been a creature brought to the surface by the bubble/stream of methane.
The gas can also cause hallucinations so maybe the monster was a hallucination.
While it sounds strange, this theory matches other recorded events andwhat we know about how memory works.
In the video the boaters are totally freaking out about it.
The size ten feet long and motion rising up, gliding along, sinking back down matches McClearys description.
And NARW do occur off Florida in the month that he saw it (March).
