Other Aquatic · Lower Chain Lake, Maine · 1883
ME-1883ID case-15664a2b2eAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 1883to the month
- Where
- Lower Chain Lake, Maineto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Mr. F.b. Hall of Calais believes that the Chain Lake serpent passes from the lakes to the sea and may be the same monster seen by Cape Elizabeth fishermen.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Lower Chain Lake, Sakom Township, Washington County, Maine, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1883
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-15664a2b2e
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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 3 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), June 20, 1883
Newspaper · 1883-06-20
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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)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.