Water Monster · Wheeling, West Virginia · 1897

WV-1897ID case-9c24c6d356Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

The account

Witnesses report that animals disappeared while wading near the shore, leading them to attribute the events to a lake monster.

See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, 26003, 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: Oct 1897
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-9c24c6d356

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Image 4 of Wheeling Sunday register (Wheeling, W. Va.), October 3, 1897
Newspaper · 1897-10-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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