Water Monster · Fairfax County, Virginia · 1983
VA-1983ID case-145b9fd366Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Apr 27, 1983to the day
- Where
- Fairfax County, Virginiato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A boat owner's son and his girlfriend spotted a large swimming animal in the Potomac River near Alexandria, which the father then illuminated with a spotlight.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Apr 27, 1983
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-145b9fd366
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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.
- The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1983 (p. n8)
ISC Newsletter · 1983
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.
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.