Water Monster · Atlantic Ocean · 1877

ATL-1877ID case-af57ff6e54Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Captain W. H. Nelson reported seeing a sea serpent resembling an Ichthyosaurus in the north Atlantic.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Atlantic Ocean
mapped to country level · from the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found).
When: 1877
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-af57ff6e54

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Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect

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Image 2 of The Jackson herald (Jackson, Mo.), October 12, 1905
Newspaper · 1905-10-12
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