Other Aquatic · North Point, Maryland · 1840
MD-1840ID case-d7c179ffb1Added to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 26, 1840to the day
- Where
- North Point, Marylandto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report that the crew of the schooner Wasp encountered and killed a twelve-foot-long creature with a seal-like head, hard shell, and four fins in the bay near North Point.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- North Point, Dundalk, Baltimore County, Maryland, 21219, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 26, 1840
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-d7c179ffb1
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 3 of The Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.), August 5, 1840
Newspaper · 1840-08-05
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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)
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