UB-85 monster hoax

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The UB-85 monster, also infrequently referred to as the UB-85 atrocity, is an alleged sea monster said to have attacked German U-boat SM UB-85 in the closing months of the First World War off the coast of Scotland. The account, given by the submarine's commander Kapitänleutnant Günther Krech, has been widely dismissed as a hoax created to explain the malfunction and mechanical failure of the submarine which led to its capture by the British Flower-class sloop HMS Coreopsis.

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