Water Monster · Cape Lookout, North Carolina · 1947
NC-1947ID case-8d8c28fd30Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Dec 1947to the month
- Where
- Cape Lookout, North Carolinato town level
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
The master of the steamship Santa Clara reported sighting a sea serpent in the Atlantic Ocean with his first and third mates and navigation officer as witnesses.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Cape Lookout, Carteret County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 1947
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-8d8c28fd30
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 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 14 of Gadsden County times (Quincy, Fla.), January 22, 1948, (Florida Feature Section)
Newspaper · 1948-01-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of Arizona sun (Phoenix, Ariz.), January 23, 1948
Newspaper · 1948-01-23 - Image 6 of Union County times (Lake Butler, Fla.), January 23, 1948
Newspaper · 1948-01-23
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.