Water Monster · Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape · 1818
SOU-1818ID case-f723358e87Added to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1818to the year
- Where
- Cape of Good Hope, Western Capeto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Captain and shipmates of the British frigate Daedalus reported a serpent at least 60 feet showing swimming past with its head extended.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town Ward 61, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1818
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-f723358e87
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Source trail (1)
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 116 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), January 29, 1961
Newspaper · 1961-01-29
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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