Other Aquatic · New Haven, Connecticut · 1895
CT-1895ID case-03eccc99a0Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 29, 1895to the day
- Where
- New Haven, Connecticutfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a creature raised its head and body seven or eight feet out of the water before sinking back down with a whistle-like noise.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- New Haven, South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Jul 29, 1895
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-03eccc99a0
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 2 of The daily morning journal and courier (New Haven, Conn.), August 1, 1895
Newspaper · 1895-08-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.