Enthusiasm and belief in the Gloucester sea serpent continued, with repeated sightings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (the last documented sighting was in 1962). While the identity of the creature has never been established, several candidates have been proposed, including a row of leaping porpoises, giant eels, sea snakes, whales, seals, and, of course, our good friend the oarfish. The spontaneously-created scientific name Scoliophis atlanticus is now considered a synonym of the basking shark, revealing yet another likely identity for the monster. No evidence confirming the existence of a new-to-science species off the coast of Massachusetts has been found.
This paragraph caught my attention because even though there is no proof or evidence of a sea monster ever existing and there are many different animals that could fit the description of the animal they claim they saw, many people are still avid believers in this mysterious "sea monster", and people still claim they saw it just 60 years ago. This reminds me of the people today that are firm believers in other things that we have no proof of existing, like mermaids, aliens, sasquatches, etc.