Water Monster · Portland, Maine · 1873
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Aug 1873to the month
- Where
- Portland, Maineto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a 'great sea serpent' has been seen from a bridge on solid land off the coast of Portland, dividing the opinion of scientists at a convention.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 1873
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-a6fec9578e
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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 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), August 23, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-08-23
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Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
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More on this creature
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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