Water Monster · Washington, District of Columbia · 1896

WA-1896ID case-ee92a707c5Added to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Fishermen in Tacoma claim to have captured two sea serpents, one of which was killed and the other a female that escaped.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area
When: Jul 1896
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-ee92a707c5

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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Image 13 of The herald (Los Angeles [Calif.]), July 26, 1896
Newspaper · 1896-07-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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