Water Monster · Indonesia · 1914

IND-1914ID case-938f4463f2Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 7, 2026

The account

Witnesses on the British freighter Strathspey report a great green sea serpent rose from the waves near an Arab sailor who had fallen overboard.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Indonesia
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found).
When: Jul 1914
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: Nov 7, 2026
Case id: case-938f4463f2

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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Image 2 of Omaha daily bee (Omaha [Neb.]), July 6, 1914
Newspaper · 1914-07-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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