Water Monster · Bay of Bengal · 1835

BAY-1835ID case-0681181611Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026

Creature: Water Monster
When: May 1835to the month
Where: Bay of Bengalfallback location
Reports: 4 documents1 independent

The account

Lieut. W. Holley reports seeing a whale-sized, leopard-spotted creature with a large dorsal fin and lizard-shaped head in the Bay of Bengal, which threw stones at their ship.

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Details

Creature: Water Monster
Where: Bay of Bengal
mapped to state level · from the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found).
When: May 1835
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 8, 2026
Case id: case-0681181611

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Source trail (3)

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Image 3 of Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.]), August 23, 1836
Newspaper · 1836-08-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 3 of The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), August 30, 1836
Newspaper · 1836-08-30
Image 3 of The watchman (Hartford, Con[n]), September 5, 1836
Newspaper · 1836-09-05

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