Water Monster · 1905

XX-1905ID case-b6e481d8c5Added to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Witness reports a sea serpent was seen by the master of the American brig Daphne in latitude farther south than the previous sighting.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Water Monster reports with no place (45)
When: Oct 1905
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-b6e481d8c5

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

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 Yorkville enquirer (Yorkville, S.C.), October 31, 1905
Newspaper · 1905-10-31
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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