Water Monster · Fort Belvoir, Virginia · 1978
VA-1978ID case-46fcfd5da7First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 15, 1978to the day
- Where
- Fort Belvoir, Virginiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing loud branch breaking sounds and seeing red eyes in the woods while on patrol at Davison Airfield between 1977 and 1979.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22060, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 15, 1978
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-46fcfd5da7
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Retired Military Policeman remembers strange incidents while on guard duty at Fort Belvoir
BFRO · 2012-02-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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