Other Aquatic reports in North Carolina
4 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 · Tar River, North Carolina · 1875
Witness reports the capture of a strange seal-like fish in the Tar River and sightings of another in the Cape Fear River.
Other Aquatic · Wilmington, North Carolina · 1882
A strange fish described as very short and five feet four inches in circumference, unknown to naturalists, was captured at Wilmington, N.C.
Other Aquatic · Roanoke Island, North Carolina · 1876
Ephraim Meekins, Jr. found a strange fish on the beach at Roanoke Island.
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.