The Kraken wasn't always a giant squid — Pontoppidan's 1750s monster was the siz

Everyone goes 'oh the Kraken is just a giant squid, mystery solved.' Slow down. The original Norwegian Kraken, the one Bishop Erik Pontoppidan wrote up in his Natural History of Norway around 1752, was something else entirely. Sailors off the coast near Bergen reported a creature so vast its back br……