Water Monster · Malta, Montana · 1909

MT-1909ID case-5af5a51197Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 10, 2026

Creature: Water Monster
When: Jun 24, 1909to the day
Where: Malta, Montanafallback location
Reports: 3 documents1 independent

The account

Chief Officer Nell S. Murray reports seeing a monstrous lizard or sea serpent swimming parallel to the British steamship Mereddio, described as being as big as a whale with alligator-like hide and a saw-like ridge on its back.

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Details

Creature: Water Monster
Where: Malta, Phillips County, Montana, 59538, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Jun 24, 1909
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 10, 2026
Case id: case-5af5a51197

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Source trail (3)

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Image 2 of The enterprise (Harlem, Mont.), June 23, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-06-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 3 of Times-promoter (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.), June 24, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-06-24
Image 6 of The Rice belt journal (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.), June 25, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-06-25

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