Water Monster · Málaga, Andalucía · 1843
ESP-1843ID case-1145bfad10Added to map Nov 4, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Aug 4, 1843to the day
- Where
- Málaga, Andalucíato town level
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Wales reports seeing a huge sea monster resembling an eel rise vertically from the water near his ship.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Málaga, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Málaga, Andalucía, España
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 4, 1843
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 4, 2026
- Case id
- case-1145bfad10
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 documents, and how they connect
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 2 of Danbury times (Danbury, Conn.), October 11, 1843
Newspaper · 1843-10-11
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.
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