Water Monster · Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile · 1873
CHI-1873ID case-1214048f06Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Feb 1873to the month
- Where
- Juan Fernandez Islands, Chilefallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Captain White reports seeing a large sea serpent off Juan Fernandez about twenty-five years prior and another similar creature near Norfolk Island on May 15, 1872.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile
mapped to region level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Feb 1873
- 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 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-1214048f06
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 3 of The Opelousas journal (Opelousas, La.), February 22, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-02-22
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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