Water Monster · Door County, Wisconsin · 1883
WI-1883ID case-bccac7c3dcAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1883to the year
- Where
- Door County, Wisconsinto county level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
Fishermen report seeing a large, black, hairy creature with an immense head and threatening teeth swimming alongside their boat off Death's Door.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Door County, Wisconsin, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1883
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-bccac7c3dc
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Source trail (4)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 8 of Northern tribune (Cheboygan, Mich.), November 27, 1884
Newspaper · 1884-11-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The Brookhaven leader (Brookhaven, Miss.), December 25, 1884
Newspaper · 1884-12-25 - Image 6 of St. Landry democrat (Opelousas, La.), December 27, 1884
Newspaper · 1884-12-27
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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.