Water Monster · Brazil · 1905

BRA-1905ID case-86473a1e2bFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Witnesses report seeing a sea serpent with a turtle-like head and eel-like neck off the Brazilian coast.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Brazil
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found).
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-86473a1e2b

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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 6 of The river press (Fort Benton, Mont.), August 29, 1906
Newspaper · 1906-08-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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