Water Monster · Lac Saint-François, Ontario · 1875
ON-1875ID case-8f8eba85cbAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jun 1, 1875to the day
- Where
- Lac Saint-François, Ontarioto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a strange water monster was seen among the islands at the head of Lake St. Francis by Indians and others, with Capt. Smallman claiming to have seen it near the entrance of Halmon River.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Lac Saint-François, South Glengarry, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Counties, Eastern Ontario, Ontario, K6J 5E3, Canada
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1, 1875
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-8f8eba85cb
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 10 of Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.), February 19, 1876
Newspaper · 1876-02-19
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
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