Other Aquatic · Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick · 1850s
CAN-1850ID case-e95eaf3324Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- the 1850sto the decade
- Where
- Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswickto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The author recounts a story from twenty-odd years ago where a forty-six-foot sea monster was killed by people on shore after getting caught on a sand bar in the Bay of Fundy.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick, B0P 1R0, Canada
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- the 1850s
- 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 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-e95eaf3324
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 2 of Idaho semi-weekly world (Idaho City, Idaho Territory), May 1, 1877
Newspaper · 1877-05-01
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Further reading
- 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 - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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