Water Monster · Marshalltown, Iowa · 1914

IA-1914ID case-31f9b652f8Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Witness reports that a sea serpent attacked a boat, biting the rudder in rage before being scared off by a parrot and swimming away at high speed.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Marshalltown, Marshall Township, Marshall County, Iowa, 50158, 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: Jul 1914
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: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-31f9b652f8

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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Image 2 of Evening times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa), July 6, 1914
Newspaper · 1914-07-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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