Water Monster · Village of Patchogue, New York · 1899
NY-1899ID case-5ea394e261Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 1899to the month
- Where
- Village of Patchogue, New Yorkto town level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a strange-looking sea monster caught in a sturgeon net in the Great South bay, described as weighing half a ton and resembling a huge turtle with wings or floppers.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Village of Patchogue, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1899
- 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 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-5ea394e261
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Source trail (3)
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 6 of San Antonio daily light (San Antonio, Tex.), July 31, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-07-31
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of Jamestown weekly alert (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]), August 3, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-08-03 - Image 8 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), October 21, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-10-21
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.