Water Monster · Bear Lake, Utah · 1868
UT-1868ID case-9dacd7c667Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Sep 12, 1868to the day
- Where
- Bear Lake, Utahto approximate level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
[name], [name], [name], [name], and six women report seeing multiple large animals swimming southward at incredible speed.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Bear Lake, Garden City, Rich County, Utah, 84038, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 12, 1868
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-9dacd7c667
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Source trail (5)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 7 of The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.]), August 27, 1868, (FIFTH EDITION)
Newspaper · 1868-08-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Daily Ohio statesman (Columbus, Ohio), September 1, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-09-01 - Image 1 of Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.), September 2, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-09-02
Show 2 more sources
- Image 1 of National opinion (Bradford, Vt.), September 11, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-09-11 - The Bear Lake Monster of Utah
Reddit · 2019-10-15
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.
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