Water Monster · Boothbay, Maine · 1831
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 3, 1831to the day
- Where
- Boothbay, Maineto town level
- Reports
- 3 documents2 independent
The account
Witnesses in Boothbay report seeing an enormous brown and yellow-brown monster resembling a snake with humps on its back, estimated to be over 200 feet long, swimming near the shore and wharf.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Boothbay, Lincoln County, Maine, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 3, 1831
- 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
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-4bcf506b8e
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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 2 of Phenix gazette (Alexandria [D.C.]), July 8, 1831
Newspaper · 1831-07-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of The liberator (Boston, Mass.), July 9, 1831
Newspaper · 1831-07-09
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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