Water Monster · Wood End, Massachusetts · 1939
MA-1939ID case-41f455d2ecAdded to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jan 19, 1939to the day
- Where
- Wood End, Massachusettsto approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents2 independent
The account
Authorities report a 30-foot skeleton with frog-like feet washed ashore near Wood End coast guard station, which old-timers believe is the remains of the famous Provincetown sea serpent.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Wood End, Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 02657, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 19, 1939
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-41f455d2ec
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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 3 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), January 19, 1939
Newspaper · 1939-01-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.), January 19, 1939
Newspaper · 1939-01-19
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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