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Other Aquatic · Essex County, Massachusetts · 1818

MA-1818ID case-430a37a912Added to map Oct 30, 2026
Creature
Other Aquatic
When
1818to the year
Where
Essex County, Massachusettsto county level
Reports
3 documents1 independent

The account

Several persons made affidavits in 1818 to having seen a sea monster off Cape Ann.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

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Details

Creature
Other Aquatic
Where
Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area
When
1818
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-430a37a912

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Source trail (3)

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.

  1. Image 7 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), December 7, 1893
    Newspaper · 1893-12-07
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 2 of The new North-west (Deer Lodge, Mont.), July 31, 1896
    Newspaper · 1896-07-31
  3. Image 6 of The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas), August 1, 1896
    Newspaper · 1896-08-01

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