Water Monster · Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands · 1963
UNI-1963ID case-6de263ad37Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Mar 1963to the month
- Where
- Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islandsfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The author notes that the Loch Ness monster has been reported early this year, suggesting competition for tourists is vigorous.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas - Saint John District, United States Virgin Islands, United States
mapped to approximate 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
- Mar 1963
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-6de263ad37
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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 9 of The Daily news of the Virgin Islands (Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I.), March 12, 1963
Newspaper · 1963-03-12
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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
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