Water Monster · Wilmington, Delaware · 1867
DE-1867ID case-19bb8cb93dFallback locationAdded to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jan 14, 1867to the day
- Where
- Wilmington, Delawarefallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a large sea serpent was captured by fishermen in the waters of Cape Cepet and displayed in Toulon.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Jan 14, 1867
- 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
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-19bb8cb93d
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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 1 of Delaware State journal and statesman (Wilmington, Del.), January 22, 1867
Newspaper · 1867-01-22
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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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