Water Monster · Silver Lake, New York · 1855
NY-1855ID case-d6df178b71Added to map Oct 31, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Aug 1, 1855to the day
- Where
- Silver Lake, New Yorkto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a large serpent-like monster sunning itself on the surface of Silver Lake for ten to fifteen minutes.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Silver Lake, Town of Castile, Wyoming County, New York, 14549, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 1, 1855
- 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 31, 2026
- Case id
- case-d6df178b71
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Source trail (2)
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 3 of New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.]), August 6, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-08-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of Washington sentinel (City of Washington [D.C.]), August 7, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-08-07
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
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