Water Monster · Barnstable County, Massachusetts · 1860
MA-1860ID case-db0ab60973Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Aug 26, 1860to the day
- Where
- Barnstable County, Massachusettsto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a large, black, finless creature resembling a serpent moving slowly on the water surface off Cape Cod.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 26, 1860
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-db0ab60973
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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 2 of The star of the north (Bloomsburg, Pa.), August 29, 1860
Newspaper · 1860-08-29
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.
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.