Water Monster · Atlantic Ocean · 1848
ATL-1848ID case-e0a5482f59Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1848to the year
- Where
- Atlantic Oceanfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports Captain McQuhae and his crew saw a sea serpent more than sixty feet long with no fins.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Atlantic Ocean
mapped to country level · from the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- 1848
- 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-e0a5482f59
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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 Mohave County miner (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]), November 17, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-11-17
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.
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