Water Monster · Africa · 1866
AFR-1866ID case-b70b1d0e20Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 1866to the month
- Where
- Africafallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a large sea serpent pursued the French ship Le Coq for two days off the coast of Africa.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Africa
mapped to country level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Jul 1866
- 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
- Nov 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-b70b1d0e20
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 2 of Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet (Baton Rouge, La.), July 31, 1866, (Morning)
Newspaper · 1866-07-31
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.
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