Water Monster · New York · 1905

NY-1905ID case-83da803494Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

An officer on the yacht Valhalla reports seeing a beast travelling faster than the ship during the night.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: New York, 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: Dec 7, 1905
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 30, 2026
Case id: case-83da803494

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Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect

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Image 44 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), July 22, 1906
Newspaper · 1906-07-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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