Water Monster · Red Wing, Minnesota · 1848

MN-1848ID case-410533b4f4Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

Creature: Water Monster
When: Aug 6, 1848to the day
Where: Red Wing, Minnesotafallback location
Reports: 3 documents1 independent

The account

Officers of H.M.S. Daedalus reported sighting a singular object in the water that looked like a long lizard or serpent with visible eyes, mouth, and nostril.

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Details

Creature: Water Monster
Where: Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota, 55066, 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: Aug 6, 1848
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 30, 2026
Case id: case-410533b4f4

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Source trail (2)

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Image 3 of The organized farmer (Red Wing, Minn.), January 8, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-01-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 5 of The Oakes times (Oakes, N.D.), March 18, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-03-18

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