Water Monster · Africa · 1848

AFR-1848ID case-fee977473fFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Witness reports that Capt. Mcluhae and the crew of H. M. S. Daedalus observed an enormous serpent off the southwest coast of Africa.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Africa
mapped to country level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found).
When: 1848
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-fee977473f

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Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect

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Image 1 of Yorkville enquirer (Yorkville, S.C.), October 31, 1905
Newspaper · 1905-10-31
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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