Water Monster · Mediterranean Sea · 1922
MED-1922ID case-346377febbFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Nov 1922to the month
- Where
- Mediterranean Seafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a flying sea serpent terrorizing fishermen and sinking boats in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Mediterranean Sea
mapped to country level · from the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Nov 1922
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-346377febb
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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 1 of St. Croix avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]), November 2, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-11-02
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.