Other Aquatic · Wood Island, Maine · 1895
ME-1895ID case-fb92a60f77Added to map Nov 12, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Dec 3, 1895to the day
- Where
- Wood Island, Maineto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Captain J. A. Grossman and his party encountered an enormous, roaring whale-like creature that did not blow water and attempted to strike their schooner.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Wood Island, Denmark, Oxford County, Maine, 04022, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 3, 1895
- 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
- Nov 12, 2026
- Case id
- case-fb92a60f77
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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 10 of The Anaconda standard (Anaconda, Mont.), December 3, 1895, (Morning)
Newspaper · 1895-12-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 5 of The Somerset reporter (Skowhegan, Me.), December 17, 1895, (OUR SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION.)
Newspaper · 1895-12-17
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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