Other Aquatic · Astoria, New York · 1939
NY-1939ID case-13770395b6Added to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Apr 1939to the month
- Where
- Astoria, New Yorkto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A fisherman named Anderson reported seeing a monster that ate a halibut and ducked out of sight, which he insisted was a sea serpent rather than a sea elephant.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Astoria, Queens, Queens County, New York, 11102, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 1939
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-13770395b6
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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 7 of Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.), April 20, 1939
Newspaper · 1939-04-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- 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 - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.