Other Aquatic · Washington, District of Columbia · 1918

WA-1918ID case-906520ea34Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

Creature: Other Aquatic
When: Dec 1918to the month
Where: Washington, District of Columbiafallback location
Reports: 2 documents1 independent

The account

Witnesses report seeing a massive sea serpent with a dark brown head and neck streaked with white, estimating its length at eighty to one hundred feet.

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Details

Creature: Other Aquatic
Where: Washington, District of Columbia, 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 1918
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 30, 2026
Case id: case-906520ea34

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Source trail (1)

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Image 26 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), December 29, 1918, (NATIONAL EDITION, The American Weekly Section)
Newspaper · 1918-12-29
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