Water Monster · Oakland, Maryland · 1887
MD-1887ID case-1fd764d1b5Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Feb 1887to the month
- Where
- Oakland, Marylandfallback location
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
Dr. [name] presented arguments and paleontological evidence to the Boston Scientific Society supporting the existence of sea serpents.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland, 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
- Feb 1887
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-1fd764d1b5
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 2 of The Republican (Oakland, Md.), February 5, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-02-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), March 3, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-03-03
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.