Water Monster · Norge · 1734
NOR-1734ID case-79b7c7eb84Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1734to the year
- Where
- Norgeto country level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports missionary Hans Egede witnessed a dreadful sea monster resembling a huge serpent in 1734.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Norge
mapped to country level · from the report's own words - When
- 1734
- 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 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-79b7c7eb84
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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 1 of Staunton spectator (Staunton, Va.), October 15, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-10-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.), November 12, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-12 - Image 1 of Holmes County Republican (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio), November 20, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-20
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.