No other legendary Sea Monster has ever struck the fear into the hearts of sailors quite like the Kraken. The great Vikings of Norway have described this monstrous beast of the sea as a "Floating Island."

The massive size of a Kraken spans something almost unimaginable. Said to be able tore each her tentacles above the top foremost mast of an ocean liner, the Kraken is a beast to be reckoned with. Kraken's would attack a ship, wrap their arms around the hull and capsize it. The crew would drown or be eaten by the monster. What's amazing about the Kraken stories is that, of all the sea monster tales we have, we have the best evidence that these are real.

At least two of these monsters have been spotted out in the sea and one has been injured by a barrage of harpoons and spears which have never again been found. In 1930, a great ship was attacked off the coast of Norway, sailors reported that it appeared nothing more than a giant squid, however the tentacle span was that of nearly 3 buildings high above the ship. One of the survivors of the 1943 attack on a ship returning from the Emerald Isles stated that, "It seems these are the creature's arms, and, it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom."

On three separate occasions, when a Kraken came close enough to the surface to attack, they got the worse end of the deal when their massive tentacles got stuck around the propellers of the ships and they sunk back to the bottom of the ocean, sparing the lives of ever man on board the ship.