Water Monster · Halifax County, Nova Scotia · 1918
NS-1918ID case-d1bb0515d9Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Dec 1918to the month
- Where
- Halifax County, Nova Scotiato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing an immense sea serpent with a snake-like head and neck, approximately eighty feet long, swimming near their yacht in Mahone Bay.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Dec 1918
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-d1bb0515d9
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 26 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), December 29, 1918, (NATIONAL EDITION, The American Weekly Section)
Newspaper · 1918-12-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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