Water Monster · Delaware Bay, New Jersey · 1869

NJ-1869ID case-938933938bAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Captain Allen reports seeing a large marine monster with scales and bright eyes accompanied by a smaller specimen while on the ship Scottish Bride.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Delaware Bay, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words
When: Dec 23, 1869
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-938933938b

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Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect

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Image 4 of The Kentucky gazette (Lexington, Ky.), December 11, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-12-11
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