Water Monster · Ohio · 1866
OH-1866ID case-93aa33864aFallback locationAdded to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- May 26, 1866to the day
- Where
- Ohiofallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a twenty-foot copper-colored serpent was seen in a bayou near Main Street and killed by citizens.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Ohio
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- May 26, 1866
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-93aa33864a
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Source trail (1)
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 1 of The day book (Norfolk, Va.), June 1, 1866
Newspaper · 1866-06-01
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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