Water Monster · Frederick, Maryland · 1913
MD-1913ID case-8260619bf7Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- May 1913to the month
- Where
- Frederick, Marylandfallback location
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Captain J. Tutt reports striking a forty-two-foot sea monster with broad stripes that hung on the ship's stem before sinking.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 21709, 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
- May 1913
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-8260619bf7
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 citizen (Frederick City, Md.), May 16, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-05-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of Bryan daily eagle and pilot (Bryan, Tex.), June 2, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-06-02
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.