Water Monster · Venice, California · 1955
CA-1955ID case-1892fa1274Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Dec 5, 1955to the day
- Where
- Venice, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a 16-foot marine creature with a snake-like head and fin tail washed ashore in Venice, California, which they believe to be a sea serpent.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Venice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90291, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 5, 1955
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-1892fa1274
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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 10 of The Key West citizen (Key West, Fla.), December 6, 1955
Newspaper · 1955-12-06
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.