Water Monster reports with no dependable place
45 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
These accounts don't say where they happened in words we can place (often a video or post that never names a town), so the map can't draw them. They are still cases, with their sources; the map lists them under Cases with no resolvable place. Why some places are estimates or missing
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 · 1879
Captain Larsen reports that a huge monster struck the bark Columbia, crushing planks and sinking the ship before the crew escaped in boats.
Water Monster · 1885
Captain A. N. Smith reports sighting a massive black sea serpent with three humps in the Atlantic Ocean.
Water Monster · 2000s
Witness reports seeing a large, square-shaped, dark algae-covered animal with spiky geometric patterns and huge flippers moving fast in a lake.
Water Monster · 1898
Witness reports seeing a large luminous serpentine creature with flattened silvery sides rise out of the water in two curves.
Water Monster · 1908
Witness reports a 120-foot phosphorescent sea monster with green horns followed the steamer Admiral Farragut for several nights.
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Informants report that one Mokele-mbembe had been observed in a deep hole upstream from Moungouma Bai.
Water Monster · 1899
Witnesses on the steamer New England report sighting a fifty-foot long marine creature with a serrated back and hippopotamus-like head near Boston.
Water Monster · 1834
Three fishermen reported seeing a brownish sea serpent seventy feet long near the surface; one witness had a good view as it raised its head.
Water Monster · 1982
[name] took a photograph with an instamatic camera during a sighting, but the developed film showed only normal vacation photos.
Water Monster · 1906
Witness reports a creature sighted by Lord Crawford's yacht, the Valhalla, which projected from the water with a large fin and a head like a turtle’s.
Water Monster · 1851
A shipmaster reports seeing a singular fish-like creature approximately 120 feet long in the Atlantic Ocean, which he struck with a grapple, causing its body to part and lose the tail while…
Water Monster · 1905
Witness reports officers and crew of the British royal yacht Osborne saw a sea serpent with dorsal fins off the coast of Sicily.
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Witness retells a story of a farmer and his son who saw the Ogopogo after farming peace land for 50 years.
Water Monster · 1947
A scientist stated that sea serpents might still be found lurking six miles deep in the ocean.
Water Monster · 1852
The captain of the Ship Monongahela reports that crew members observed a large, snake-like creature in the ocean which they attempted to pursue but lost sight of due to weather conditions.
Water Monster · 1867
A poem describes a helmsman witnessing a massive black serpent with yellow eyes and multiple heads emerging from the ocean waves before vanishing northward.
Water Monster · 1871
J. Cobbin reports seeing an enormous sea serpent resembling a cobra with a bull's head and rainbow-colored scales on December 30th.
Water Monster · 1857
Witness reports a credible man and his two sons saw a sea serpent follow their boat and swim by on an island.
Water Monster · 1870s
Rail workers reported seeing a huge serpent moving through the lake in the 1870s.
Water Monster · 1897
Captain Gold reports that he and the second mate observed a thirty-foot long, drab-colored sea serpent with purple eyes and a bucket-like head on the surface of the water off South America.
Water Monster · 1921
Witness reports a black sea monster of an unknown species, resembling a giant shark and weighing two tons, was caught off the New Jersey coast.
Water Monster · 1845
Captain McQuhal asserts in an official report that he saw an enormous serpent approaching his ship.
Water Monster · 1945
Edward Rowe Snow and four fishermen encountered large fish-like creatures with hands in the ocean.
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A witness describes a long black shape moving slowly in the moonlight before submerging.
Water Monster · 1954
Map caption describes a 20 minute sighting of a huge hump with multiple witnesses.
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People near the speaker reported looking for a Loch Ness-like creature in Georgia.
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A caller reports that as a child he and his father saw a huge serpent-like creature coiling in Lake Erie, which shocked a nearby fisherman.
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A villager reports that his great-grandfather had definitely seen the animal.
Water Monster · 1875
A party of New England ladies and gentlemen plus two clergymen saw a sea serpent-like animal from the yacht Princess near Swampscott for two hours.
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Trusted informants report that the Mokele-mbembe had been seen in the lower Bai River.
Water Monster · 1752
The captain and officers of the ship Daedalus reported seeing a creature with head seven or eight feet in diameter and twelve feet long and a huge body.
Water Monster · 1818
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…
Water Monster · 1905
Witness reports a sea serpent was seen by the master of the American brig Daphne in latitude farther south than the previous sighting.
Water Monster · 1908
Captain Mader reports that a strange marine monster followed the steamer Admiral Farragut for several days, crossing its bow and displaying a smiling face.
Water Monster · 1872
Captain White reports that a large sea serpent was seen passing near his ship during the outward passage from New York to China.
Water Monster · 1986
Reports describe Champ as a supposed large, Nessie-type animal in Lake Champlain, prompting legislative resolutions for its protection.
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A villager reports that a Mokele-mbembe had been at Lake Tele at one time.
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Map caption describes an oil drum shape which subsequently submerged.
Water Monster · 1845
Captain McQuhal reported seeing an enormous serpent swimming rapidly towards his ship.
Water Monster · 1873
Witness reports seeing a sea serpent resembling a tapeworm in sections off the Cape in 1873.
Water Monster · 1905
Witness reports that the skipper of the steamship Armadale Castle saw a sea serpent struck by the ship's bow while on voyage to Cape Town.
Water Monster · 1833
Three Maine fishermen encountered a sea serpent basking near the surface in 1833; one fisherman had a good view as it raised its head and looked at him.
Water Monster · 1851
Capt. Richard Burr reports seeing a large sea serpent and its young near his brig in the Atlantic Ocean.
Water Monster · 1856
Witness reports a credible man with his two sons saw a serpent follow their boat and swim slowly by.
Water Monster · 1980s
The narrator recalls watching a local news report in Detroit during the early to mid-1980s that featured footage of a large, serpentine creature identified as Chessie moving through water.