Water Monster · Lake Champlain, Vermont · 1873
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 1873to the month
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Vermontto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that Commodore Bisell and party interviewed a sea serpent near Shelburne Bay, saw it moving faster than any steamer with thirty feet of its body in view showing buncles on its face, and that Mr. S. D. Torrey and his party had a clear view of the snake making the bay boil.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Chittenden County, Vermont, 05474, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 1873
- 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-5a9432a39d
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Source trail (2)
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- Image 2 of The Rutland daily globe (Rutland, Vt.), July 21, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-07-21
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of Burlington weekly free press (Burlington, Vt.), August 1, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-08-01
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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