Other Aquatic · Waterbury, Connecticut · 1875

CT-1875ID case-7d1a0a8ca5Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Capt. Garton and a passenger saw a striped black and white serpent over 100 feet long at the same latitude on the same day.

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Creature: Other Aquatic
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: Jul 11, 1875
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-7d1a0a8ca5

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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Image 10 of Waterbury evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.), May 27, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-05-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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