Water Monster reports from the 1910s
33 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.
Water Monster · Argyll and Bute, Alba / Scotland · 1913
Rev. Alexander Maclean observed an object off the island of Col that moved with a dignified motion and had a shining eye.
Water Monster · Indian Rocks Beach, Florida · 1915
Witness reports the finding of the remains of a serpent at Indian Rocks, Florida, described as fully 40 feet long with a huge head.
Water Monster · Frederick, Maryland · 1913
Captain J. Tutt reports striking a forty-two-foot sea monster with broad stripes that hung on the ship's stem before sinking.
Water Monster · Louisiana · 1915
Witness reports a sea monster discovered on Dernlere Island, Louisiana, described as a huge fish 80 feet long with the head of an elephant and snout of an alligator.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1918
Witness reports seeing a colossal black creature rise above the waves while fishing with her brother.
Water Monster · Stark County, North Dakota · 1915
Witnesses report seeing a fifty to sixty-foot long serpent basking on the surface of Devils Lake near Chautauqua.
Water Monster · Gulf, California · 1912
Officers and crew of a ship in the Gulf of California saw a sea serpent shaped more like an alligator with four turtle-like paddles.
Water Monster · Saint Louis, Missouri · 1913
Witnesses report seeing an ugly head appear above the water at Franklin bridge in Forest Park, which blinked and then ducked beneath the water.
Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1918
Map caption describes a large hump moving down the loch at speed against the wind.
Water Monster · Forest Park, Missouri · 1914
Witnesses report seeing an ugly head appear above the River des Pees in Forest Park, which winked and ducked underwater after being pelted with stones.
Water Monster · Gloucester, Massachusetts · 1914
Witnesses in Gloucester reported seeing a large serpent-like creature that became a familiar object until an expedition failed to see it.
Water Monster · Fort Madison, Iowa · 1919
Witness reports that J. B. Worley and James Alexander beheld a creature cutting through the water at a rapid rate south of an oil station.
Water Monster · Bulwagga Bay, New York · 1915
Witnesses report a reptile approximately 40 feet long was seen sunning on Bulwagga reef and swimming toward the Vermont shore in Lake Champlain.
Water Monster · Fort Madison, Iowa · 1918
Witness reports that three men of high repute claimed to have seen a sea serpent in the river near Fort Madison last summer.
Water Monster · Halifax County, Nova Scotia · 1918
Witnesses report seeing an immense sea serpent with a snake-like head and neck, approximately eighty feet long, swimming near their yacht in Mahone Bay.
Water Monster · Lafourche Parish, Louisiana · 1914
Officials report the discovery of a carcass on Derniere Island described as a huge fish with an elephant's head and alligator snout, initially claimed to be a new sea monster species.
Water Monster · Norfolk County, Massachusetts · 1914
The narrator reports that Ananias Sline claimed to have seen a sea serpent off Quincy Harbor, leading Captain Barnabas Fish and others to investigate.
Water Monster · Halifax, Nova Scotia · 1914
A sea captain provided sworn testimony of seeing a snake-like denizen of the deep swimming past his ship off Halifax.
Water Monster · Ashland, Oregon · 1917
Indian John claimed to have seen serpent tracks on the shore of Aliert Lake, which cowboys later verified.
Water Monster · Calumet, Michigan · 1913
Witnesses initially thought a pike was a sea serpent when they first saw it.
Water Monster · Marshalltown, Iowa · 1914
Witness reports that a sea serpent attacked a boat, biting the rudder in rage before being scared off by a parrot and swimming away at high speed.
Water Monster · Brasil · 1912
Witnesses report that fellows of the British Zoological society saw a huge fin and turtle-shaped head sticking out of the water off Brazil.
Water Monster · Ashland, Oregon · 1917
S. H. Chandler reports seeing a dark sea serpent swimming in Aliert Lake with about twenty feet of its body visible above the water.
Water Monster · Keokuk County, Iowa · 1911
Captain Haggart reports that a sea monster followed the steamship Mendocino for three days and was shot at without effect.
Water Monster · Middletown, Delaware · 1910
Witnesses report a sea serpent lying prone on the water with jaws distended and eyes glaring defiantly at the assembled crowd.
Water Monster · Indonesia · 1914
Witnesses on the British freighter Strathspey report a great green sea serpent rose from the waves near an Arab sailor who had fallen overboard.
Water Monster · Ogden, Utah · 1914
Witness reports a correspondent claimed to see a great sea monster off the coast of New Jersey that breathed fire and smoke.
Water Monster · Beatrice, Nebraska · 1914
The narrator and others on a boat observed a large reptilian creature with ridged back and a head rising from the water near High Point.
Water Monster · Montgomery, Alabama · 1919
Professor D'Arcy Thompson claims that ancient sightings of sea serpents were actually misidentifications of cuttlefish.
Water Monster · Atlantic Ocean · 1912
Commanders of two British ships reported seeing sea serpents in the South Atlantic with manes on their backs looking like seaweed.
Water Monster · Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada · 1917
The captain and his chief officer reported sighting a huge sea serpent which they later identified as a revived boa constrictor.
Water Monster · Atlantic Ocean · 1914
Witness reports that contemporaries of Christopher Columbus saw sea serpents sporting about in the Atlantic Ocean.
Water Monster · Indonesia · 1914
Witnesses on the British freighter Strathspey report a great green sea serpent rose from the waves to seize an Arab sailor who had fallen overboard.