Water Monster · Lake Champlain, Vermont · 1929
VT-1929ID case-e03e763749Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 1929to the month
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Vermontto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The author reports that Lake Champlain's sea monster has reappeared according to press dispatches, noting that while no one they met had seen it, natives knew people who had.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Lake Champlain, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1929
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-e03e763749
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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 Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.), July 17, 1929
Newspaper · 1929-07-17
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.