Water Monster · Brest, France métropolitaine · 1879
FRA-1879ID case-1169803dd2Added to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Aug 5, 1879to the day
- Where
- Brest, France métropolitaineto town level
- Reports
- 4 documents2 independent
The account
Captain [name] reports seeing a black, eel-shaped sea serpent with vulture-like eyes rise from the water near his ship off the coast of France.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Brest, Finistère, Bretagne, France métropolitaine, 29200, France
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 5, 1879
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-1169803dd2
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Source trail (4)
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 1 of Essex County herald (Guildhall, Vt.), September 19, 1879
Newspaper · 1879-09-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 6 of Iowa County democrat (Mineral Point, Wis.), October 17, 1879
Newspaper · 1879-10-17 - The Broadway Actor and the Hydroplanic Sea Serpent of the White Star Line
Reddit · 2024-11-30
Show 1 more source
- The Broadway Actor and the Hydroplanic Sea Serpent of the White Star Line
Reddit · 2024-11-30
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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