How did it happen when the sea snake in Jämtland's Great Lake became the "Great Lake Monster" with the entire Swedish people? The snake was mentioned for the first time as early as 1643, and in a new thesis on the subject of human ecology, it is examined how the relations between man and nature shaped the various ideas that historically surrounded the (un)animal in the Great Lakes. The research has dealt with the cryptid - that is, an animal whose existence science has never been able to prove - from different social, cultural and (scientific) historical perspectives.
The "sea serpent" creature in Jämtland's Storsjön was taken up as an object of study by zoological science at the end of the 1800th century, but was quickly thrown out again. About what happened then and afterwards (and why this is interesting), the author of the proceedings, Sanna Händén-Svensson, tells about in the talk about how it happened when a sea urchin survived Linnaeus' systematization of nature. Free entry, no pre-registration required.