Water Monster · Newport, Rhode Island · 1889
RI-1889ID case-86a1145c41Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Oct 12, 1889to the day
- Where
- Newport, Rhode Islandto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A man in Newport captured a sea serpent and placed it in a glass jar, noting it was only five feet long and weighed two pounds.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, 02840, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 12, 1889
- 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 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-86a1145c41
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 1 of San Antonio daily light (San Antonio, Tex.), October 19, 1889
Newspaper · 1889-10-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of The Hope pioneer (Hope, N.D.), November 1, 1889
Newspaper · 1889-11-01
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.
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