Water Monster · Great Barrington, Massachusetts · 1903
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1903to the year
- Where
- Great Barrington, Massachusettsto town level
- Reports
- 7 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Stavely reports seeing a large sea monster with black and gray blotches, approximately 200 feet long, near Great Harrington during a voyage from San Francisco to London.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1903
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (7 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-bd0bc17c25
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Source trail (5)
Down the rabbit hole → 7 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 Passaic City record (Passaic City, N.J.), April 18, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-04-18
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of Bridgeton pioneer (Bridgeton, N.J.), April 23, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-04-23 - Image 6 of The Rising son (Kansas City, Mo.), May 1, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-05-01
Show 2 more sources
- Image 3 of The Cook County herald (Grand Marais, Minn.), June 6, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-06-06 - Image 2 of The sea coast echo (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.), June 27, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-06-27
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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