Water Monster · Yazoo City, Mississippi · 1860

MS-1860ID case-051523017fFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026Wait… what now?

Why it's on Wait… what now?: A serpent with a shaggy mane and horns attacking a ship's bowsprit is bizarre.

The account

Captain Taylor reports seeing an enormous serpent with a shaggy mane and horns attacking his ship's bowsprit before chasing a whale.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi, 39194, 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: Apr 15, 1860
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-051523017f

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Image 1 of The Yazoo Democrat (Yazoo City, Miss.), May 12, 1860
Newspaper · 1860-05-12
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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