Water Monster · Vista Santa Rosa, California · 1926
CA-1926ID case-a3646247a0Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jun 1926to the month
- Where
- Vista Santa Rosa, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a water monster lives in the springs of Santa Rosa peak and makes strange bellowing noises heard especially at night.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Vista Santa Rosa, Riverside County, California, 92247, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1926
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-a3646247a0
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Source trail (1)
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 Milwaukee leader (Milwaukee, Wis.), June 23, 1926, (Morning Edition)
Newspaper · 1926-06-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.