Water Monster · East Hampton, Connecticut · 1900
CT-1900ID case-0a77f93430Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 1900to the month
- Where
- East Hampton, Connecticutto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a lake monster appeared at Lake Poootopang in East Hampton, frightening away by women and children throwing tin cans, and was also seen by Dr. W. F. Lahiff and M.L. Falvey.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- East Hampton, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 1900
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-0a77f93430
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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 3 of Connecticut western news (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.), July 19, 1900
Newspaper · 1900-07-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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