Water Monster · Lake Champlain, Vermont · 1929
VT-1929ID case-0ce3ad9ec2Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Sep 1929to the month
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Vermontto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The article reports on the Lake Champlain sea serpent, noting it was first observed by the discoverer of the water and reappeared recently after an interval of 25 years.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 1929
- 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
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-0ce3ad9ec2
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Source trail (2)
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- Image 7 of The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.), September 12, 1929
Newspaper · 1929-09-12
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 7 of The St. Johns herald (St. Johns, Apache County, Ariz.), September 26, 1929
Newspaper · 1929-09-26
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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