Water Monster · Norway · 1837

NOR-1837ID case-9fbc4cf1c9Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

A credible man and his two sons saw a serpent near Storfosen in 1837 that followed their boat.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Norway
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: 1837
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 30, 2026
Case id: case-9fbc4cf1c9

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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 1 of The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.), October 11, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-10-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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