Water Monster · Willmar, Minnesota · 1900
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Sep 1900to the month
- Where
- Willmar, Minnesotafallback location
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Dr. A. Apellof published a theory in naturen to debunk the existence of the Big Lake monster by attributing sightings to organic gas, while Jemtlandsposten protested that this explanation did not fit the conditions of Big Lake.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, 56201, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Sep 1900
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-c9411b8126
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 7 of Willmar tribune (Willmar, Minn.), September 26, 1900
Newspaper · 1900-09-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 10 of Warren sheaf (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.), September 27, 1900
Newspaper · 1900-09-27 - Image 2 of Devils Lake inter-ocean (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]), September 28, 1900
Newspaper · 1900-09-28
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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