Talk:Chessie (sea monster)

Environmental icon
I added the Environmental icon section, with previously deleted material, because the use of Chessie for environmental advocacy is significant, a somewhat unusual role to assign to a cryptid. Does Big Foot join Smoky the Bear to help prevent forest fires? Folklore1 (talk) 17:53, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

More sources for expansion?
If someone were interested in expanding this article - especially the sightings - the following might be sources to explore: — "Was it a whale? An eel? A sea serpent?" news item, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-11-12/news/1997316030_1_starkey-eel-sea-serpent — "Chessie" in Monsters of Maryland: Mysterious Creatures in the Old Line State, https://books.google.com/books?id=LzRl7vFFuIoC&pg=PA69 — Checking Out Chessie in Lake and Sea Monsters, https://books.google.com/books?id=Oi7wQm4mTVcC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Bill+Burton+chessie&source=bl&ots=y4oKKyOsFG&sig=r0GMZ45xI-qiHHUQl08jS7E56to&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEpu_elMDLAhVHJiYKHQmiCzAQ6AEINDAF#v=onepage&q=Bill%20Burton%20chessie&f=false — Chessie of Chesapeake Bay in American Monsters, https://books.google.com/books?id=RZOpAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT107&lpg=PT107&dq=chessie+smallwood+1997&source=bl&ots=P0d6cBhrZs&sig=qrGgHjJYLX2VkVP3Ut2CVSH3LF4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjnsvHDlMDLAhUGKCYKHcvADecQ6AEINjAE#v=onepage&q=chessie%20smallwood%201997&f=false Molly-in-md (talk) 12:53, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

"Alleged Sightings" Needs to be Rewritten
Like many articles of its kind on Wikipedia, a significant amount of this article needs to be rewritten from an etic perspective (see emic and etic). Currently, much of it is written more like an episode of the X-Files than a serious study. While that's fun, what we need here are peer-reviewed secondary sources where academics—specifically folklorists—discuss the figure. As with many figures of its type, there's often a lot more going on than meets the eye and this only becomes clear with a serious study rather than a compilation of "sightings".

That said, good to see the "environmental icon" and "popular culture" sections, those sections are good and should be expanded. &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 18:48, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

I wonder how possible it was for military helicopter to notice the monster in 1936, if first military helicopter in United states was introduced in 1941... (28 Feb 2019) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.210.16.245 (talk) 13:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

First Sighting
I'm no expert but 1936 seems a bit early for a military helicopter? Mr Larrington (talk) 19:37, 10 February 2022 (UTC)