Water Monster · Atlantic Ocean · 1869

ATL-1869ID case-b389410869Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

The account

Captain Allen reports that his crew observed a large marine monster with scales and bright eyes while the ship was calm off Delaware Bay.

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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: Nov 23, 1869
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-b389410869

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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Image 1 of Public ledger (Memphis, Tenn.), December 11, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-12-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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