Other Aquatic reports from the 1850s
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 · Village of Perry, New York · 1855
Edwin Chapin states he went to Silver Lake on Wednesday evening and looked at birds flying around the foot of the lake, in the context of confirming the general belief that there is a monster in the…
Other Aquatic · Erie County, New York · 1855
Witness reports an immense snake was captured in Silver Lake after being seen by a whaleman and his shipmate.
Other Aquatic · Village of Perry, New York · 1855
A chairmaker who cut flags in Silver Lake twenty years prior reported seeing a monster snake there, frightening his men and causing him to stop working in the lake.
Other Aquatic · Silver Lake, New York · 1855
Witness reports a huge serpent, supposed to be fifty or sixty feet in length, was seen in Silver Lake near Wyoming, N.Y., agitating the water with its tail.
Other Aquatic · Portage County, Ohio · 1853
Witnesses report seeing a large brown snake with a human-like head and eight or ten young serpents in Browning Pond.
Other Aquatic · Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick · 1850s
The author recounts a story from twenty-odd years ago where a forty-six-foot sea monster was killed by people on shore after getting caught on a sand bar in the Bay of Fundy.
Other Aquatic · Village of Perry, New York · 1855
A correspondent reports that residents of the Perry region are excited by alleged sightings of a large snake-like monster in Silver Lake, citing historical accounts from a chairmaker, local Indians…
Other Aquatic · Lynchburg, Virginia · 1852
Witness reports seeing a creature with a head 16 feet above water and a saw-shaped crest between the Cape and Madras.
Other Aquatic · Colorado · 1855
Black Ben reports seeing a hairy, horned creature with a human-like face in the river near an island, which made a terrifying noise before submerging.
Other Aquatic · Portsmouth, New Hampshire · 1850
A narrator recounts a fictional story where a serpent attacks maidens in the sea and is shot at by Albert.