Water Monster · Waterbury, Connecticut · 1845

CT-1845ID case-6a51738dc7Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

Creature: Water Monster
When: 1845to the year
Where: Waterbury, Connecticutfallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

A Norwegian captain reported to the Norwegian Society of Natural History that he and his crew chased a sea serpent for three miles before it escaped in shallow water.

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Details

Creature: Water Monster
Where: Waterbury, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut, 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: 1845
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-6a51738dc7

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Source trail (1)

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Image 10 of Waterbury evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.), May 27, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-05-27
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