Water Monster · Alexandria, Virginia · 1845

VA-1845ID case-252bff2fdcFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Witness reports that Dr. [name] found monster bones in Alabama which are claimed to belong to a sea serpent measuring at least 125 feet long.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Alexandria, Virginia, 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: Sep 1845
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 30, 2026
Case id: case-252bff2fdc

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Down the rabbit hole → 5 documents, and how they connect

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Image 2 of Alexandria gazette (Alexandria, D.C.), September 2, 1845
Newspaper · 1845-09-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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