Water Monster · Vancouver Island, British Columbia · 1806
BC-1806ID case-a9fda5bf12Added to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1806to the year
- Where
- Vancouver Island, British Columbiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Captain Foot reported capturing a sea snake in Quatsine Sound that was killed by men fishing for cod.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1806
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-a9fda5bf12
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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 11 of San Antonio daily light (San Antonio, Tex.), October 29, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-10-29
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
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