Water Monster · Provincetown, Massachusetts · 1835
MA-1835ID case-08e4090b27Added to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Apr 6, 1835to the day
- Where
- Provincetown, Massachusettsto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Shibbles and his crew reported seeing a large sea serpent with a barrel-sized head and mane-like neck swimming rapidly near Race Point Light.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 02657, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Apr 6, 1835
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-08e4090b27
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 3 of Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.]), April 7, 1835
Newspaper · 1835-04-07
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Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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.
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