Other Aquatic · Village of Perry, New York · 1855
NY-1855ID case-4cf658730eFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 15, 1855to the day
- Where
- Village of Perry, New Yorkto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Edwin Chapin states he went to Silver Lake on Wednesday evening and looked at birds flying around the foot of the lake, in the context of confirming the general belief that there is a monster in the lake.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Village of Perry, Town of Perry, Wyoming County, New York, 14530, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 15, 1855
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-4cf658730e
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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.
- Image 4 of Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.), September 6, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-09-06
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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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