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Sea serpents off New England, monsters in Midwestern lakes and long things in rivers. Sightings by fishermen and steamboat crews ran next to obvious newspaper fun, so read each one with care.
82 cases237 newspaper pages11 marked as probable hoaxes
Newport, Rhode Island · Aug. 1839
The Newport Herald of the Times said the sea serpent had been reported again along the coast, in Frenchman's Bay, off Nahant and as far south as Cape May. The editor admitted he had been sceptical, but was shaken when an old friend said he had seen it himself.
Newark Bay at Saltersville (Bayonne), New Jersey approx. · July 1869
The Newark Courier vouched for James Andrews, a sober porgy fisherman from Saltersville on Newark Bay, who said he had seen the sea serpent. His neighbours generally believed him.
“not at all given to grog”
Pyramid Lake, Nevada approx. · Oct. 1869
The Elko Independent said miners and prospectors had long passed on a Paiute story of a monster snake in Pyramid Lake, and that local Native people would not go near the water. The paper then gave a new account from men who said they had glimpsed it.
Reported on arrival at Delaware Bay (sighting at sea) approx. · Nov. 23, 1869
Captain Allen of the bark Scottish Bride, arriving from Bordeaux, said he had passed the great sea serpent at sea, and that a smaller serpent swam with it. The New York Sun ran his description and it was copied from Minnesota to Nevada.
“The Sea Serpent still lives, and has an heir”
Probably a hoax or tall tale The Sun's account was written with a wink.
Eltingville, Staten Island, New York · Feb. 29, 1884
Eltingville was in an uproar after Constable Elbert Poillon said a sea serpent attacked his boat and crunched an oar. He described it as long as a shooting gallery, with a head like a powder keg. An oyster planter partly backed him up.
“a Head Like a Powder Keg”
Between Grape Island and Hog Island, Essex County, Massachusetts approx. · June 11, 1884
The Georgetown Advocate said six young men sailing from Grape Island toward Hog Island saw something in the water they first took for seals chasing each other, then decided was the annual sea serpent.
Lake Michigan, later off Death's Door, Wisconsin approx. · Nov. 1884
A tug captain, Dick Brewer, said a large black monster surfaced ahead of his boat as he towed a mud scow past the Marine Hospital, setting off talk among sailors. Fishermen later reported it again off Death's Door.
Lake Kampeska, near Watertown, Dakota Territory · July 1886
Workmen building a steamer on Lake Kampeska had already reported a huge animal, and been laughed at, when four men on shore watched something about 20 feet long, like a log, cross the lake faster than the steamer could go, circle and sink. Some suggested a giant sturgeon trapped in the lake.
Off Gally Point, near the Rockport breakwater, Massachusetts · July 24, 1886
A Gloucester lawyer, a police-court clerk, a bank teller and a friend camping at Gally Point said a serpent over 100 feet long and as thick as a barrel swam within 200 yards of them one Saturday evening. All four had been unbelievers.
Off Gloucester, Massachusetts · Aug. 1886
An old sailor, the president of Gloucester's council, a customs officer and a sea captain said they sailed within a few hundred feet of what looked like a floating spar nearly 100 feet long. Then a huge head rose with two glittering eyes, and the thing sank and surfaced again farther off.
Hudson River off Kingston Point, New York · Aug. 1886
Boatmen, swimmers and a schooner captain said a huge serpent raised its head six feet out of the Hudson near Kingston Point, with a fin running down its back. Over the next days it was reported again, once chasing two young men in a rowboat to the far shore.
“they were all perfectly sober”
Off Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Massachusetts approx. · Aug. 12, 1886
On a calm, sunny afternoon about fifty people, among them two Boston school principals and a music professor, watched through glasses as something about 80 feet long moved north for twenty minutes, showing ten to fifteen humps at once. A school of porpoises passed at the same time, and witnesses said the two looked nothing alike.
Lake Mazaska, Shieldsville Township, Rice County, Minnesota · Sept. 1886
A Faribault man driving home along Lake Mazaska said a 30-foot animal with two long horns and scales that flashed yellow, blue and green swam toward him, then rose on its hind feet and walked into the road. A postmaster and a fishing party had reported it two weeks before.
Cumberland Bay, Plattsburgh, New York · Sept. 1886
Two travelling salesmen from Albany and Troy, sitting on the veranda of the Fouquet House, saw the calm bay suddenly churn 200 feet out. Part of a huge, arched, porpoise-shaped body at least 100 feet long showed for a moment, and both said they became believers.
Connecticut River opposite Cromwell, Connecticut · Sept. 8, 1886
Colonel Stocking and Silas Sage said that while they rowed across the river their boat was struck from below and lifted nearly out of the water. They then saw a serpent close to 100 feet long with its head ten feet up, churning off upriver. A professor at Middletown doubted it, and Stocking wrote to the papers to defend his story.
Hudson (North) River off 27th Street, Manhattan, New York · Sept. 10, 1886
Lieutenant G. A. Foster of the training ship Minnesota said he watched a dull grey, eel-like animal at least 60 feet long swim slowly up the Hudson from the 27th Street pier. His quartermaster followed it through a marine glass and backed up every detail.
“he hadn't had anything to drink for over a week”
San Diego Bay off the 22nd Street depot, California · Oct. 4, 1886
At sunset the freight agent's wife at the 22nd Street depot screamed for her husband, and four people watched something about 50 feet long with a head like a giant bullhead and a fish's tail race across the rough bay toward National City.
Long Island Sound between Westport and Southport, Connecticut · Oct. 11, 1886
Three men out sailing from Westport took what they saw for a school of porpoises until they got close. They said a serpent held its head five feet up and showed 70 to 100 feet of body, then half sank and sped off, leaving a wake like a steamboat's.
Lake Champlain east of Willsboro Point, New York · Dec. 1886
Five men at Willsboro Point, all of them doubters until then, watched a dark body at the head of a long streak of foam race south down the lake against the wind, throwing spray twenty feet in the air. Through a spyglass they followed it nearly as far as Essex and guessed its speed at a mile a minute.
St. Lawrence River near Simcoe Island, opposite Cape Vincent, New York · June 10, 1888
Four men sailing from Wolfe Island said they saw a serpent about 80 feet long near Simcoe Island. Across the river in Cape Vincent the lawyer, customs collector and town supervisor debated the story at the post office, and three men set off to try to catch it.
Two miles southwest of Point Judith, Rhode Island · Aug. 4, 1888
Two experienced sailors on a sloop said a head like an alligator's, with five-foot jaws, long teeth and eyes as big as a hat crown, passed within ten feet of them, with a stiff fin down its back and a body at least 70 feet long. It followed reports of a serpent off Watch Hill.
Georgetown harbour, between the port and the bar, South Carolina · Sept. 1888
The captain of the steamer Planter said a tug passed within 200 yards of a dark, resting serpent about 50 feet long with a beak-like mouth and large oval head. Woken by the noise, it threw its tail into the air and made for the mud flats of Muddy Bay where the tug couldn't follow.
Pacific Ocean off the mouth of the Umpqua River, Oregon approx. · Oct. 1888
The captain of the coal bark Estrella, with his wife and crew watching, said an 80-foot serpent as thick as a barrel swam by 200 yards off with its head and ten feet of neck raised, the neck covered in coarse hair like a mane. He fired his rifle at it; the shots fell short.
Twin Lakes, Salisbury, Connecticut · May 1890
A fisherman from South Egremont, Massachusetts, said what he took for a blackened stump in 75 feet of water moved, left a wake and reared a flat, two-foot head six feet out of the lake, with a body ten to twelve inches thick.
The overflow east of Pritchard's Lake, near Pleasant Grove, California approx. · Aug. 1890
Ranchers around Pleasant Grove, north of Sacramento, said a serpent over 40 feet long was seen in the flood overflow near Pritchard's Lake, and on land too. The keeper of a duck-shooting club on the lake said he had found strange tracks and lost many chickens.
Off Brant Rock, Marshfield, Massachusetts · Sept. 1890
A father and son out in a boat off Brant Rock said they chased a long, snake-like animal and got a rope around its head while a crowd watched from the beach. A second man rowed out, and the two fired charge after charge into its head with little effect as it towed them along.
Fish Trap Lake, below Galena, Illinois approx. · Sept. 1890
Five men trolling on Fish Trap Lake, below Galena, said the calm water suddenly boiled and their boat heaved and rocked as a huge serpent-like fish surfaced. They linked it to a similar monster reported there about ten years before.
Greenport breakwater, Long Island, New York · June 1891
Captain Edward Reeve, who rowed out each evening to light the beacon on the Greenport breakwater and was known as a sober, reliable man, told the New York World he had fought off a sea monster from his skiff.
Santa Cruz River below Tucson, Arizona · Aug. 1891
The Arizona Weekly Citizen ran a comic account of a seven-headed sea serpent that came up the dry Santa Cruz River below Tucson, watched by frightened hundreds, and delivered a sermon and prophecy.
Probably a hoax or tall tale Pure newspaper comedy; the Santa Cruz is usually dry.
Reported at Gloucester; seen on the Flemish Cap fishing bank · Sept. 25, 1891
Gloucester fishermen back from the distant Flemish Cap bank said a sea serpent over 80 feet long, resembling a giant squid, appeared while they were hauling their trawls, and that a marine monster wrecked trawl lines and overturned dories.
Lake Kenosia, Danbury, Connecticut · Dec. 4, 1891
Danbury announced that the famous Lake Kenosia serpent had been caught. Warren Baker, driving along the shore, saw what he took for a big tree limb across the road until his horse shied. The creature was said to be almost twenty feet long and covered with scales.
Probably a hoax or tall tale The Sun printed it in its usual playful style; no specimen was ever described by a scientist.
Between the Poor Knights Islands and Cape Brett, New Zealand approx. · May 1892
J. A. Subritzky of Awanui wrote that his son, captain of the schooner Medora, passed within about 12 feet of a sea serpent between the Poor Knights and Cape Brett. It lifted its head and part of its body to look at the ship but made no move to attack. It was nearly black to a yellow, dark-striped tail with a fin on each side of the tip, and the captain put it at about 90 feet long. The captain had not wanted his father to send the story in.
“people will only say it is nonsense”
Willapa River near South Bend, Washington · May 12, 1892
Two couples out in a naphtha launch said a serpent forty feet long, its head four feet out of the water and eyes glaring, raced past them on the Willapa River.
Russian River at the iron bridge, Cloverdale, California · June 1892
Young men on the iron bridge heard a strange noise and saw something churn down the dark Russian River toward them. It let out a scream unlike anything they knew, reared about ten feet out of the water with a bellow, and passed under the bridge, leaving an odd smell. It had been reported upriver toward Ukiah two weeks earlier.
Lake Erie, about 16 miles above the Dummy light approx. · July 1892
The captain of the schooner Madeline Downing saw the lake lashed to foam ahead and, coming close, a dark brown snake 30 feet or more long with a large head held four feet up, sparkling eyes and fins big enough to help it swim. He thought it could crush a yawl boat.
Thompson's Lake, near Havana, Illinois approx. · Aug. 1892
Young people boating on Thompson's Lake fired a revolver at what they took for a log, and it turned into an immense snake that churned the water to foam. Locals guessed it had escaped from a menagerie two years before.
Bass Lake (Cedar Bass Lake), southeast of Knox, Indiana · May 1893
After years of torn nets, a capsized rowboat and a steamer tugged by its anchor line, a fishing party from Knox (including the lawyer who had defended President Garfield's assassin) hooked something that ran out a thousand feet of line. Passengers on the little steamer City of Kokomo said the animal surged up under the bow and nearly swamped them.
Beach Point weir, Provincetown, Massachusetts · May 1893
Weir fishermen found their fish trap churning yellow and a mass of dark ridges filling it: a single eel-shaped animal nearly thirty feet long, which they killed after a fight. Papers announced the sea serpent captured; it was most likely a large shark or other fish.
Off Marrowstone Point, Puget Sound, Washington · June 1893
Crew and passengers of the steamer Edith watched for nearly half an hour as a head like a huge snake's, as big as a man's body, rose five feet out of the water off Marrowstone Point, turning from side to side and opening its mouth. It dived and came up on the other side of the boat.
Lake Ontario off Sodus Point, New York · Aug. 1893
Returning from a fishing trip with railroad officials, the captain of the tug Cornelia felt the boat roll and saw a huge object moving alongside at half the tug's speed. He rang to slow down for a better look, and it dived into water forty or fifty fathoms deep.
Off the coast south of Timaru, New Zealand approx. · Oct. 1893
A press agency report said the officers of a passing steamer had seen a sea serpent a few miles south of Timaru within the past fortnight. It raised a snake-like head fourteen feet above the water.
Long Island Sound off Saybrook Point, Connecticut approx. · Jan. 12, 1896
Crews of the tugs Runyon and Aries, heading east past Saybrook Point, reported a sea serpent at least 75 feet long that stayed in sight for ten minutes before it disappeared.
Currituck Sound, North Carolina approx. · Jan. 25, 1896
A North Carolina paper reported, with plenty of jokes about President Cleveland's recent duck hunt, that a sea serpent had been found frozen to death off the Currituck coast.
Probably a hoax or tall tale Written tongue in cheek.
Seattle, Washington · March 31, 1896
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer described a midnight crowd staring at a huge bluish mass, said to be 75 feet long, that the sea had thrown up and that had sunk half a dock under its weight.
Probably a hoax or tall tale Printed on April 1; it reads like an April Fool's story.
Off the New Jersey coast approx. · May 4, 1896
Captain Shannon and his crew fought a strange fish for two hours off the New Jersey coast and killed it: about 15 feet long and 500 pounds, with a horn on its nose, two rows of teeth and silvery armour-like scales. No fisherman there could say what it was.
“the like of which none of the fishermen had ever seen”
Saybrook Point, Connecticut · May 10, 1896
John Skipworth, keeper of the new light at the end of the Saybrook jetty, said he watched a monstrous sea serpent playing on the surface of Long Island Sound one Sunday afternoon, and guessed it at hundreds of feet long. His wife and a ship's captain were said to back him up.
Hood Canal, Puget Sound, Washington approx. · June 27, 1896
Two Tacoma fishermen said they caught a live sea serpent in Puget Sound: smooth-skinned, spotted like a tiger, about 17 feet long by one account. Later reports spoke of two smaller ones from Hood Canal, eight and ten feet long, put on show in Tacoma. A Kansas paper ran the story under the headline that the monster was not a myth.
“Has a Bulldog's Head, a Tiger's Fangs, a Snake's Body”
Lighthouse Point, New Haven, Connecticut · July 19, 1896
On a Sunday afternoon, more than 200 people at Lighthouse Point in New Haven said a 100-foot sea serpent, about fourteen feet around, swam close past several pleasure boats and headed for deep water. The paper joked that the Sunday liquor laws ruled out the usual explanation.
“Have you seen the sea serpent?”
Plum Cove, Lanesville (Gloucester), Massachusetts · July 29, 1896
William Henry Sargent was hauling lobster pots off Lanesville when he saw a sea monster, rowed ashore in a fright and gathered a crowd. Everyone watching agreed it was about 80 feet long before it disappeared.
Stratford Shoals, mouth of the Housatonic, Connecticut approx. · July 30, 1896
Captain Ewing of South Amboy, towing coal barges up the Housatonic, told people at the Derby docks that he had seen a big sea serpent off Stratford Shoals. The paper vouched that he was an honest old salt who did not drink enough to affect his sight.
Lake Ripley, Wisconsin approx. · Aug. 1, 1896
A Chicago Tribune piece said the Lake Ripley serpent was snatching sheep, swallowing calves and chickens, cracking the winter ice and tossing the swimmers' diving floats around.
Probably a hoax or tall tale Written as summer-resort comedy.
Off Throgg's Neck, Long Island Sound, New York approx. · Aug. 10, 1896
Two Whitestone anglers, Anthony Rick and Wesley Hunt, said a sea serpent went scurrying through the water off Throgg's Neck, apparently headed for New York. Days later other boaters described a green monster about fifty feet long in the Sound.
Off Provincetown, Massachusetts · Aug. 16, 1896
Captain Richard Horton of the fishing schooner Minnehaha was said to have captured the sea serpent off Provincetown. It turned out to be a large loggerhead turtle that put up a hard fight.
Probably a hoax or tall tale Explained at the time: a loggerhead turtle.
Carrabelle, Florida · Aug. 20, 1896
A dispatch from Carrabelle said a sea serpent 49 feet long, eel-shaped with a spoonbill head and forked tongue, was killed in the Gulf after towing the steamer Crescent City for an hour, and was lying on the town wharf. The story travelled to Washington, Savannah, Wichita and beyond.
Probably a hoax or tall tale No specimen was ever examined by a scientist; it has the marks of a newspaper tall tale.
Rock Lake, Lake Mills, Wisconsin · Aug. 28, 1896
A Watertown paper said fishermen had long reported a huge serpent or water beast in Rock Lake that broke their lines. A Chicago alderman said he had battled it and that it had feet and scales like an alligator, and an old resident claimed it once towed his boat for several rods.
Columbia River near Clifton, Clatsop County, Oregon · Oct. 17, 1896
Dominick Bule, a salmon fisherman at Clifton, said that at dusk a huge animal rose out of the Columbia twenty feet from his boat. It had a hairy, horse-like head and four tusks a foot long, and stared at him for about two minutes.
At sea between Gay Head and Winter Quarter lightship approx. · May 30, 1897
Officers and passengers of the Merchants and Miners steamer Gloucester, bound from Boston to Baltimore, said they saw a white sea serpent 40 to 45 feet long early one Sunday morning, off the coast near Gay Head.
Off Pumpkin Rock, near Boothbay Harbor, Maine · June 4, 1897
Captain Handy McKown's fishing steamer Shark, returning from herring fishing near Pumpkin Rock, passed an immense sea serpent 80 to 100 feet long with a head four feet across, swimming with part of its neck out of the water.
Block Island, Rhode Island · July 3, 1897
Block Island sailors and fishermen reported a white sea serpent with a horse-like head and great brown eyes. The New York Sun noted that three separate sources had described a white serpent that season.
“Its Head Is Like That of a Horse and It Has Great Brown Eyes”
Lake Michigan beach, North Chicago, Illinois · July 8, 1897
Joe Downey of North Chicago said his family was on the beach at dusk when two men in bathing suits ran past yelling about something in Lake Michigan. They then saw the creature themselves. Chicago papers called it Joe Downey's sea serpent.
“Have you seen it?”
Off Salem, Massachusetts · July 18, 1897
Two summer visitors fishing near a buoy off Salem said a large flat head rose out of the water next to their boat, followed by a long body.
Lake Wawasee, Indiana · Aug. 1, 1897
Hotel guests and cottagers at Lake Wawasee said they had seen and heard a serpent in the lake. The Indianapolis Journal joked that the resort could now rank with the seaside attractions.
Probably a hoax or tall tale Written half in jest as resort publicity.
Long Island Sound, Connecticut approx. · Aug. 7, 1897
Three Hartford men fishing on Long Island Sound, one of them a Sunday school superintendent, said an all-black sea serpent passed their boat, writhed about and then vanished. The paper reported it in a teasing tone.
North of Greenport, Long Island, New York · Nov. 16, 1897
C. Edwards Stauson, a Greenport drug clerk, came back from a morning's fishing on Long Island Sound with no fish and a story of two sea serpents, each about fifty feet long, swimming together north of Greenport.
Probably a hoax or tall tale The papers ran it as a fish story.
Off Pig Rocks, Swampscott, Massachusetts · Feb. 9, 1899
A fisherman reached shore exhausted from rowing and said a serpent had come at his dory off Pig Rocks: long, scaly, barnacled and whitish, with a seal-like head, fangs and hissing breath. Two others said they had rowed in so hard from the same thing a day or two earlier that they fainted on the sand.
Delaware Bay off Ship John Shoal Light, near Bayside, New Jersey · May 1899
Three sturgeon fishermen said a black creature with a lighter face reared eight feet out of the water a few feet from their boat, and that arms came out about three feet below its shoulders. One of them quit fishing and went home to Salem, and several boats were short of crew.
Off Muscongus, Maine approx. · June 1899
When the menhaden (pogy) fleet couldn't find a single school along the New England coast, the crew of a small Canadian smack insisted they had seen, sober and in daylight, a serpent over 60 feet long and as thick as a keg of nails, lashing the water to foam and carrying off the fish.
Lake Champlain between the Vermont shore and Split Rock · Aug. 1899
A witness the Burlington News called entirely trustworthy saw a creature about 80 feet long swimming south half a mile away, where the lake is deepest. Its head was broad and flat like a hand on a table, its body a low arch and its broad tail tip stuck up out of the water. It sank in a boil of bubbles.
Lake Kilby, Suffolk, Virginia · March 1901
Returning from fishing, the president of Suffolk's city council and a companion saw something like a log come alive: an eight-foot body with a six-foot tail and a head shaped like a man's, with coal-black eyes, heavy brows and fuzzy yellow hair on the face. It rolled over and sank. The lake, the town's water supply, is dammed off from the river.
Penobscot Bay off Mark Island, opposite Camden, Maine · May 1901
The master and mate of the schooner Kitty Lawry said they watched a sea serpent through a glass for 90 minutes off Mark Island. A doubting crewman changed his mind once he looked. More than eight feet of body thicker than a stovepipe showed when it raised its head.
Green Bay off Marinette, Wisconsin · July 1904
The crew of the tug Thompson, fishing after towing out a schooner, said a serpent of olive green with turquoise and bright red stripes, two rows of teeth and flashing eyes came within two feet of the boat. The captain's wife gave the colours.
Devils Lake, by the Chautauqua grounds, North Dakota · Sept. 1904
Three women walking the beach by the Chautauqua grounds saw, through opera glasses, a great snake-headed animal covered in black scales swimming toward the north shore, leaving a trail of foam. Armed men patrolled the shore afterward, and a group of Native people said they had seen it earlier that day.
Raritan Bay off South Amboy, New Jersey · Sept. 1, 1904
Fishing early in the morning, J. B. Edwards saw what he took for a man swimming toward his boat from the Staten Island shore. It had a head something like a horse's, circled the boat two or three times and vanished.
Off the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand approx. · May 1906
The officers of the steamer Taviuni, back in Auckland from the Cook Islands, said they had seen a sea serpent near the Kermadecs on both the outward and the homeward run, about 60 miles apart. It was reddish, about 60 feet long, with a head like a gurnard, and it stayed close to the ship for some time each time.
Atlantic Ocean about seven miles off Ocean City, New Jersey · March 1907
The captain of a fishing launch said that while they looked over a wreck offshore, they hit a monster about 100 feet long that tore away their propeller. It blew like a whale, but its spout was blood red. He and his crew of six offered to swear to it.
Surf in front of the Long Beach bathhouse, California · March 12, 1907
Something about fifteen feet long with three horn-like bristles on its head and a tail split into three barbed points played in the breakers in front of the lifesaving station for half an hour, leaping half out of the water twice.
Walker Lake, near Schurz, Nevada · May 1907
An engineer said he watched a black, square-headed animal tear through Walker Lake throwing spray for ten minutes. Later two miners said they rowed toward what looked like a man in a skin and saw a creature they put at 80 feet long. The papers noted that Paiute people by the lake had long spoken of one.
Surf off Cornfield Point light, Old Saybrook, Connecticut · July 31, 1907
Captain Jim Sherman of the Annie D. said he saw a sea serpent with a head like an alligator's, several feet around, in the surf off Cornfield Point. When friends laughed he pulled out a pocket Bible and swore to it; he said it headed for Long Island.
Off Long Beach, California · Feb. 17, 1909
Guy Griffith, James Harvey and three other fishermen in the launch Reta said that some miles off the coast they saw a sea serpent 40 feet long, with a brown head as big as a small barrel, eyes like a man's fist and a large dorsal fin, swinging its head like a snake. Papers noted that Long Beach was a dry town.
Greenwood Lake, New Jersey and New York approx. · July 9, 1909
Three Montclair men back from Greenwood Lake said a queer amphibious creature with a horn and a sponge-like tail speared a bass, soaked them and tried to climb into their boat. One showed a slashed wrist as proof.
Walker Lake, Nevada approx. · Aug. 31, 1909
Visitors to Walker Lake had long reported a monster serpent or prehistoric beast in the desert lake, and several mining men claimed to have seen it. A new account came via a Reno police captain's brother, mining at Lucky Boy. A Tonopah paper headlined it as Reno booze at work.
Probably a hoax or tall tale The paper's headline blamed the drink.
Alkali Lake (Walgren Lake), six miles southeast of Hay Springs, Nebraska · Aug. 1921
People near Hay Springs said a creature about 20 feet long and as thick as a man lived in the alkali lake southeast of town, spouting water 20 feet high with a hiss like a locomotive. Bathers stopped going in and locals planned to catch it.
Cadborosaurusaka Caddy, Hiyitl'iikA horse-headed sea serpent reported off the coast of British Columbia.
Champaka Champy, Lake Champlain MonsterAmerica's Loch Ness: the long-necked creature of Lake Champlain.
Hudson River Monsteraka Kipsy, KeepsieA huge serpent reported up and down the Hudson River in the summer of 1886, from New York Harbor to near Albany.
Sea serpentaka Sea monster, Gloucester sea serpentLong, humped serpents reported by sailors in every ocean for centuries.
Walgren Lake Monsteraka Alkali Lake Monster, Giganticus BruterviousA 40-foot, horned, alligator-like beast said to live in a small Nebraska sandhills lake, probably a newspaperman's hoax.