Other Aquatic · Swampscott, Massachusetts · 1875
MA-1875ID case-46ad150f4dAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 3, 1875to the day
- Where
- Swampscott, Massachusettsto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Four ladies and gentlemen plus two sailors saw an animal resembling a sea serpent near Swampscott with a huge head rising from the water.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Swampscott, Essex County, Massachusetts, 01907, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 3, 1875
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-46ad150f4d
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 10 of Waterbury evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.), May 27, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-05-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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