Water Monster · Los Angeles, California · 1848

CA-1848ID case-a06d072562Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

The British ship Daedalus encountered a sea serpent in 1848 which was distinctly seen by many passengers.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 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: 1848
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-a06d072562

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Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect

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Image 13 of The herald (Los Angeles [Calif.]), July 26, 1896
Newspaper · 1896-07-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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