Water Monster · Nahant, Massachusetts · 1849
MA-1849ID case-9506cb16d8Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Aug 3, 1849to the day
- Where
- Nahant, Massachusettsto town level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that John Marston and two other gentlemen observed a large serpent-like creature in the water off Nahant Beach for 15 to 20 minutes.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Nahant, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 3, 1849
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-9506cb16d8
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
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 Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.), August 25, 1849
Newspaper · 1849-08-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The New Hampshire gazette and Republican union (Portsmouth, N.H.), August 28, 1849
Newspaper · 1849-08-28 - Image 1 of Lower Sandusky freeman (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]), September 8, 1849
Newspaper · 1849-09-08
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.