Water Monster · South Atlantic Ocean · 1858
SOU-1858ID case-838b62dc30Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jun 19, 1858to the day
- Where
- South Atlantic Oceanfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A captain reports that a 90-foot long sea monster attacked his ship in the South Atlantic and followed it for nine days before being driven off.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- South Atlantic Ocean
mapped to country level · from the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Jun 19, 1858
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-838b62dc30
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Source trail (1)
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 Washington union (City of Washington [D.C.]), November 13, 1858
Newspaper · 1858-11-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.