Water Monster · Lake Champlain, Vermont · 1929
VT-1929ID case-bbdf8f942fAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 14, 1929to the day
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Vermontto approximate level
- Reports
- 6 documents3 independent
The account
Three youths returning from a fishing trip reported seeing a large serpent-like creature in Lake Champlain that thrust its head above the water and lashed the surface with its tail.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 14, 1929
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 3 independent sources (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-bbdf8f942f
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 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 12 of New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.), July 16, 1929
Newspaper · 1929-07-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.), July 18, 1929, (PART ONE)
Newspaper · 1929-07-18 - Image 12 of Der Nordstern (St. Cloud, Minn.), July 25, 1929
Newspaper · 1929-07-25
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.