Other Aquatic reports from the 1890s
24 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 · Chance Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador · 1893
A diver descending to the wreck of the Anglo Saxon in Chance cove encounters a huge creature with horns and claws that attacks him.
Other Aquatic · Canton, Illinois · 1899
Witnesses on a steamer observed a large, glossy black aquatic creature with an alligator-like snout and goggle eyes that propelled itself like a turtle.
Other Aquatic · Benton County, Arkansas · 1897
Witness reports a posse led by Mr. [name] encountered and killed a large reptilian creature with a scythe-like tail in a cave near Blanco, Arkansas.
Other Aquatic · Cape Hatteras, North Carolina · 1890
Capt. Gheen reports that his crew encountered a school of large, fish-like monsters with ape-like hands that followed their schooner for hours off Cape Hatteras.
Other Aquatic · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1896
Rev. W. A. Talcott reports a narrow escape from the jaws of a mammoth sea turtle that grabbed his coat tail while he sat on an express truck at a Pittsburgh station.
Other Aquatic · Village of Patchogue, New York · 1899
Witness reports that John A. Smith and his crew caught a large black sea monster weighing half a ton in a fish net off Patchogue.
Other Aquatic · Village of Great Neck, New York · 1898
Samuel Dunlap reports catching a strange monster while fishing at Saddle Rock.
Other Aquatic · Atlantic City, New Jersey · 1897
Guards Parker and French saw the devil fish again near the shore, which encircled their boat with a tentacle and emitted ink before being driven off.
Other Aquatic · Achill Island - Acaill, Connacht · 1890
Witness reports the carcass of a giant squid stranded on Achill Island, measuring thirty feet in tentacle length and sixty feet in body circumference.
Other Aquatic · Atlantic City, New Jersey · 1897
Guards Parker and French encountered a huge monster with enormous arms or tentacles in a life boat near the shore.
Other Aquatic · Belfast, Maine · 1895
Witness reports an unknown sea monster resembling a turtle was captured by the schooner Francis M. Burke and is now on exhibition in Belfast.
Other Aquatic · New Haven, Connecticut · 1895
Witnesses report a creature raised its head and body seven or eight feet out of the water before sinking back down with a whistle-like noise.
Other Aquatic · Washington, District of Columbia · 1891
Peter Nelson described a creature with the head of an eel and long fins raising part of its body nearly thirty feet out of the water.
Other Aquatic · Ontario, Canada · 1893
Mr. [name] and his wife rowing on the lake at night heard a noise and beheld a serpent standing out of the water seven feet with a body big as an ordinary man and a head like a snake's.
Other Aquatic · The Dalles, Oregon · 1894
Mr. [name] thinks the animal was an icthyosauru6.
Other Aquatic · Lander, Wyoming · 1897
An English swimmer claims he was up against a porpoise that stayed in the water for a week.
Other Aquatic · 1899
Captain Slocum and his crew observed a large, inflated sea monster resembling a balloon fish for over an hour before it sank.
Other Aquatic · Durham, North Carolina · 1894
A legend is recounted of a man who slew a 'worm' at Stockburn, with its sword and effigy preserved in the local church.
Other Aquatic · New Jersey · 1896
Captain Shannon and his crew captured and killed a strange sea creature off the coast of New Jersey after a two-hour struggle.
Other Aquatic · Helena, Montana · 1890
A captain claims his crew encountered a school of large, ape-pawed fish-like monsters near Cape Hatteras that followed their vessel and were eventually captured.
Other Aquatic · Utah · 1893
The narrator recalls men describing an amphibious animal that was pursued and shot at with a revolver while basking on the shore.
Other Aquatic · 1893
A Newfoundland diver reports seeing a huge, voracious lobster-like creature in the deep sea caves off the coast of Maine.
Other Aquatic · Paducah, Kentucky · 1898
Witness reports that Mr. [name] captured and killed a strange aquatic creature with gills, horns, and sucker-tipped arms in the back water.
Other Aquatic · New York · 1899
Natives at Suwarrow Island told the crew of the steamer Emu that a big devil-fish had been washed ashore.