Water Monster · Race Point, Massachusetts · 1835
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Apr 23, 1835to the day
- Where
- Race Point, Massachusettsto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Shibles and his crew reported seeing a large sea serpent with a mane-like neck near Race Point light. Witness reports the creature was 200 to 250 feet long, moved swiftly backwards and forwards, and made noises like escaping steam.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Race Point, Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 02657, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 23, 1835
- 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-e129d7f8b0
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 1 of Litchfield enquirer (Litchfield, Conn.), April 23, 1835
Newspaper · 1835-04-23
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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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