Water Monster · Rockingham County, New Hampshire · 1830
NH-1830ID case-70111d8e78Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 1830to the month
- Where
- Rockingham County, New Hampshireto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
Witnesses report a sea serpent near the Isle of Shoals, with one crew sighting it within twenty feet and another describing its size and appearance.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 1830
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-70111d8e78
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 2 of The Portsmouth journal and Rockingham gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.), July 24, 1830
Newspaper · 1830-07-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The Arkansas gazette (Arkansas Post, Ark. Ter.), September 8, 1830
Newspaper · 1830-09-08
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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