Water Monster · San Antonio, Texas · 1908

TX-1908ID case-6f1ced4d1dFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

The narrator reports seeing a large object on the surface which the second mate identified as a pink sea serpent.

See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 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: Sep 20, 1908
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-6f1ced4d1d

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Image 36 of The San Antonio light (San Antonio, Tex.), September 20, 1908
Newspaper · 1908-09-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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