Water Monster · Maquam Bay, Vermont · 1879
VT-1879ID case-374879d968Added to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- May 31, 1879to the day
- Where
- Maquam Bay, Vermontto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Mr. [name] and his hired man observed a large serpent-like creature moving in Maquam Bay for about two hours.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Maquam Bay, Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont, 05488, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- May 31, 1879
- 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 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-374879d968
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 3 of Iowa County democrat (Mineral Point, Wis.), June 6, 1879
Newspaper · 1879-06-06
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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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