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Water Monster reports from the 1810s

27 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.

  1. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts2 independent sources

    A farmer killed a baby sea serpent with a pitchfork near Good Harbor beach in late summer 1817, which was exhibited and examined by a committee.

  2. Water Monster · Finnmark, Norge · 1817

    Finnmark, Norge1 independent source

    Witness reports Sir Arthur de Capel Brooke alludes to an animal seen in Olden Fiord in 1817 by fishermen.

  3. Water Monster · Voss, Vestland · 1819

    Voss, Vestland1 independent source

    Witness reports the sea serpent appeared in 1819 off Otersnn in Norway and was seen daily during July.

  4. Water Monster · Essex County, Massachusetts · 1817

    Essex County, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Witness reports that in 1817, a gigantic sea snake appeared off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, described as dark chocolate colored and 60 to 100 feet long with a caterpillar motion.

  5. Water Monster · Essex County, Massachusetts · 1817

    Essex County, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Witness reports a young sea serpent was killed with a pitchfork and exhibited in Captain John Beach's house.

  6. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Captain Tappan and his crew reported seeing a sea serpent off Gloucester that looked like a string of buoys with a serpent head.

  7. Water Monster · Lynn, Massachusetts · 1819

    Lynn, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Witness reports that in 1819, Nathan D. Chase of Lynn saw a sea serpent wriggle past within 100 feet at the speed of an ordinary steamer.

  8. Water Monster · Nahant, Massachusetts · 1819

    Nahant, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Witness reports hundreds of persons saw a celebrated sea serpent off Xahant in 1819 and followed its course for miles.

  9. Water Monster · Mineral Park, Arizona · 1817

    Mineral Park, Arizona1 independent source

    Witness reports Daniel Webster saw a sea serpent nearly one hundred feet long with a head like a turtle.

  10. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts1 independent source

    On August 14, 1817, a sea serpent approached a boat within thirty feet, was shot at, and then sank and reappeared on the opposite side.

  11. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts1 independent source

    The Linnaean Society of Boston investigated an alleged appearance of a sea serpent at Gloucester and received positive affirmations from eleven persons.

  12. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Witness reports shooting at a serpent-like marine animal that sank under their boat and was later seen alive off Cape Ann.

  13. Water Monster · Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape · 1818

    Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape1 independent source

    Captain McQuiao and officers on H.M.S. Daedalus observed a sea serpent resembling a lizard with distinct eyes, mouth, and nostrils.

  14. Water Monster · Richmond County, Nova Scotia · 1811

    Richmond County, Nova Scotia1 independent source

    W Barry observed a large creature sixty feet in length with natural ridges or humps on its back moving in long undulations.

  15. Water Monster · Nahant, Massachusetts · 1819

    Nahant, Massachusetts1 independent source

    The Linnaean Society investigated another case at Nahant two years later and received testimony from two hundred persons.

  16. Water Monster · Council Bluffs, Iowa · 1819

    Council Bluffs, Iowa1 independent source

    Witnesses report that Pawnee Indians saw a huge water monster with a black scaly neck and head rising from the river carrying a boat of white men.

  17. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Witnesses report a historical sea serpent visited Gloucester harbor in the summer of 1817, was approached within 30 feet, raised its head, and sank under a boat.

  18. Water Monster · Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts · 1815

    Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Fifteen people observed a sea serpent in Gloucester Harbor on June 20, 1815.

  19. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Witness reports the sea serpent was first seen opposite Gloucester in 1817, with testimony considered sufficient to place its existence.

  20. Water Monster · Nahant, Massachusetts · 1817

    Nahant, Massachusetts1 independent source

    James Prince reports a sea serpent appearing three feet out of the water with thirteen bunches on its back, estimated at fifty to sixty feet in length.

  21. Water Monster · Hampshire, England · 1818

    Hampshire, England1 independent source

    Witness reports that officers on HMS St. Vincent observed a large monster with a head and shaggy mane moving rapidly between the ship and the Isle of Wight, which was later identified as a line of…

  22. Water Monster · Richmond County, Nova Scotia · 1815

    Richmond County, Nova Scotia1 independent source

    A marine monster estimated at eighty feet in length was seen aground in still water, with a head raised frequently and back covered with humps.

  23. Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1817

    Gloucester, Massachusetts1 independent source

    Mr. [name] saw a sea serpent about 150 yards distant off Kettle Island and made a drawing and description of it.

  24. Water Monster · Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape · 1818

    Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape1 independent source

    Captain and shipmates of the British frigate Daedalus reported a serpent at least 60 feet showing swimming past with its head extended.

  25. Water Monster · Ogden, Utah · 1817

    Ogden, Utah1 independent source

    Witness reports a sea serpent appeared in the harbor of Gloucester, Cape Ann, in 1817, seen by many different persons.

  26. Water Monster · 1818

    location unknown1 independent source

    Witness reports that a crew on the ship Pekin saw an extraordinary thing in the water with a huge head and neck covered with a shaggy mane, which they initially believed was a great sea serpent but…

  27. Water Monster · Maine · 1817

    Maine1 independent source

    Rev. Abraham Cummings reports he has frequently seen a sea serpent along the coast of Maine.