Mermaid · Concord, New Hampshire · 1845
NH-1845ID case-cd27150106Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Mermaid
- When
- Jun 9, 1845to the day
- Where
- Concord, New Hampshirefallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The writer claims to have seen mermaids scrambling up rocks near the Pole and saved two of them.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mermaid
- Where
- Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, 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
- Jun 9, 1845
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-cd27150106
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Source trail (1)
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 4 of Hill's New-Hampshire patriot (Concord, N.H.), November 27, 1845
Newspaper · 1845-11-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- 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 - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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.