Water Monster · Door County, Wisconsin · 1883
WI-1883ID case-e32d0f7b11Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1883to the year
- Where
- Door County, Wisconsinto county level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Two fishermen report an animal of similar description swimming alongside their boat and frightening them so badly they were taken sick.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Door County, Wisconsin, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1883
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-e32d0f7b11
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 3 of The Brookhaven leader (Brookhaven, Miss.), December 25, 1884
Newspaper · 1884-12-25
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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