Other Aquatic reports from the 1830s
10 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Other Aquatic · 1837
A credible man and his two sons saw a serpent follow their boat and swim slowly by on an island in 1837.
Other Aquatic · Norway · 1837
Newspapers from Drontheim in 1837 reported a sea serpent seen at various parts of the coast during dog days.
Other Aquatic · Nahant, Massachusetts · 1833
Passengers in a small boat testify to approaching within ten feet of the Sea Monster which passed under their bow at a rapid rate.
Other Aquatic · Sumatra, Indonesia · 1834
Witness reports seeing a serpent fly from a tree fifty or sixty feet above ground and alight forty or fifty fathoms away.
Other Aquatic · Lake Elizabeth, California · 1830s
Major [name] wrote that a monster had been scaring away settlers from its valley since the 1830s and feasting on horses and cattle.
Other Aquatic · Padang, Sumatera Barat · 1834
Witness reports that natives claimed to have seen and killed a serpent that flew by concaving its belly.
Other Aquatic · Village of Perry, New York · 1830s
A story circulated that a ten-year-old boy sent to fetch water from the lake returned frightened, claiming there was a great snake in it as large as a barrel.
Other Aquatic · Everglades National Park, Florida · 1830s
It is reported that Colonel Harney shot two of these sea cow-like animals in the Everglades during the Florida war.
Other Aquatic · Baja California Sur, México · 1839
Captain Hope reports seeing a creature resembling an alligator with a long neck and four paddles in the Gulf of California.
Other Aquatic · Norway · 1837
In 1837, a serpent was seen constantly during the summer near Storfosn at the Kergvang Islands.