Water Monster · Canada · 1840s

CAN-1840ID case-443da90af1Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

The text reports that sea serpents were seen along the US and Canadian coasts in the 19th century.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Canada
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found).
When: the 1840s
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-443da90af1

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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 2 of The Dickenson County herald (Clintwood, Va.), December 8, 1927
Newspaper · 1927-12-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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