Other Aquatic · Lake Champlain, Vermont · 1881
VT-1881ID case-3b22834f8cAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- May 1881to the month
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Vermontto approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Proprietors of the Champlain granite works claim to have discovered a petrified sea serpent approximately 50 feet long embedded in granite near Lake Champlain.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Chittenden County, Vermont, 05474, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- May 1881
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-3b22834f8c
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 8 of Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.), May 27, 1881
Newspaper · 1881-05-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of West-Jersey pioneer (Bridgeton, N.J.), June 9, 1881
Newspaper · 1881-06-09
Further reading
- 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 - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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