A Chessie mascot poses with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Historian Eric A. Cheezum talks about Chessie the sea monster at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St ...

ST. MICHAELS — In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chesapeake Bay gained a mystery. Multiple sitings of an unknown creature stirred concern and intrigue that a sea monster lurked in Maryland ...

Chessie's work is a huge part of construction of a new tunnel for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. ... The name harkens back ...

The name harkens back to the legend of a sea monster who lives deep within the Chesapeake Bay. Sailors who have claim to have spotted this creature half a century ago described "Chessie" as a long ...

One of the most famous cryptids in Maryland is Chessie, a sea monster reportedly first seen in a 1936 flyover. Described as a ...

Robert G. Thayer holds his new book “Chessie” that he has been working for 30 years. It is a love story set in St. Michaels that includes the sea monster.

In novels like “Moby Dick” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” monsters exist to aggravate and impinge on human life. Science, folklore, and fiction have villainized deep sea creatures for ...

The sea monsters on the “Carta Marina” were universally mean spirited and seemingly determined to hurt any human they encountered. Pristers, in particular, were dangerously aggressive.