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  Engraving after Captain Davison's sketch of the sea serpent and the whale, published in The Graphic, 19 July 1879 Scan

  The Graphic, 1879, via Futility Closet ·from The Kiushiu Maru sea serpent gripping a whale off Cape Satano (1879)
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  Maine fisherman S. W. Hanna's sketch of the 'sea serpent' he spotted off New Harbor suggests the specimen was actually an oarfish. Scan

  S. W. Hanna, 1880, via Hakai Magazine ·from S. W. Hanna's "Young Sea-Serpent" in the Nets at New Harbor, Maine (1880)
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  Pickerel Billy with a Display of Pickerels Scan

  Wisconsin Historical Society; Stanley Charles Hanks ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Nanabozho pictograph, Mazinaw Rock Scan

  D. Gordon E. Robertson, via Wikimedia Commons ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Joseph Rusling Meeker's painting of Lake Mendota Scan

  Joseph Rusling Meeker, via Wikimedia Commons ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Photograph of Billy Dunn Scan

  The Capital Times ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Ho-Chunk waterspirit pictograph by Little Hill Scan

  hotcakencyclopedia.com ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Nanabozho in the flood Scan

  Wikimedia Commons ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Illustration of Billy Dunn fighting the snake, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 1892 Scan

  Chicago Tribune, via Driftless Times Media ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Modern view of Lake Mendota from Picnic Point Scan

  Nicolás Boullosa (Flickr) ·from Billy Dunn and the Lake Mendota sea serpent (1883)
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  Illustration accompanying the Lake Koshkonong Monster article Scan

  watertownhistory.org ·from The Lake Koshkonong sea serpent: A. I. Sherman and Charles Bartlett's rowboat chase (1887) (1887)
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  Cartoon water demon: "Hey buddy, can I bum a smoke?" Scan

  EsoterX ·from The Lake Koshkonong sea serpent: A. I. Sherman and Charles Bartlett's rowboat chase (1887) (1887)
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  Portrait of Captain R. J. Cringle Scan

  B&C Staff Register ·from The SS Umfuli Sea Serpent (1893)

  Sketch by Captain Cringle, of the 40 s., Unfulf. made while his ship was in Lat. 21 40 N., long. 17 W. by the coast of Cape Verde on December 4. 1893, of a large creature of which he saw the neck and three humps.…

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  New Haven Register, 30 August 1895: the wild man now believed to be an escaped gorilla. Scan

  Trinity College 'Fake News' exhibit, from Readex scans ·from The Winsted Wild Man (1895)

  WINSTED'S MYSTERY SOLVED. The "Wild Man" Now Beltoved to be an Escaped Gorilla. Winsted, Conn., Aug. 30.—The Con necticut wifd man, that has divided honors with the sea serpent, is a full grown gorilla. John G. Hall runs a stage line between here and Sandisfield, Mass. While he was passing through C…

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  The steamboat Otetiani Scan

  senecalakemonster.wordpress.com (original photographer not stated) ·from The Steamer Otetiani and the Seneca Lake Sea Serpent (1900)
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  Scan of The Zoologist, January 1903, the issue that reprinted the Fort Salisbury log extract Scan

  Internet Archive ·from The SS Fort Salisbury Sea Serpent (1902)

  THE ZOOLOGIST No. 739.—January, 1903. PARROT BUILDING IN THE OPEN: AT PARK HILL, NEW FOREST. By W. F. RAWALLEE. Commended by F. DeCate Gouen, D.C.L., F.R.L. (PLATE L.) In the "Adventure Journal" of November, 1906, I appear a short account of the adventures of the Pamela Parsons family, presented in …

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  A Sea Serpent off Longships; probably a modern photograph of the Cornish coast, not of the 1903 event Scan

  Cornish Bird (esdale77) ·from Captain White and the Falmouth tug Triton: the 100-ft sea serpent off the Longships (1903) (1903)
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  A photo of the original article from the Falmouth Packet (1903) Scan

  Rob Vickery, Dark Cornwall ·from Captain White and the Falmouth tug Triton: the 100-ft sea serpent off the Longships (1903) (1903)

  light. It was painted white, with black bottom, but no name was attached to it. Inside was a knife, which apparently had been used for cutting bait for fishing. Some hours afterwards a body of a man in oilskins was observed in the water. Before leaving Dublin the crew of the tug were asked to keep a…

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  The Dishan Tower, known as the Douche. Scan

  Orkney Ferries (site © NILPS) ·from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  Balfour Harbour, Shapinsay, with the Douche tower behind: the area of the 1905 sighting. Scan

  Colin Smith, 26 June 2007 (Geograph) ·from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  Munster's famous chart of sea monsters, a 16th-century woodcut. Generic illustration, not this event. Scan

  from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  A Minecraft model of the Douche, modern fan art. Scan

  Thomas Hall ·from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  The Douche, the Balfour Castle doocot on the Point of Dishan. Scan

  from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  Uncaptioned blog image accompanying the reprint; content not identified. Scan

  from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  Sea Serpent from Naturalists Library, 1839 (Lizars). Generic illustration, not this event. Scan

  Lizars ·from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  Uncaptioned blog image accompanying the reprint; possibly a clipping or scenery. Scan

  from The Shapinsay Sea Serpent off the Douche, Orkney (1905) (1905)
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  The Valhalla sea serpent as drawn for the Illustrated London News, 30 June 1906 Scan

  Illustrated London News, 1906, via Futility Closet ·from The Valhalla Sea Serpent off Brazil (1905) (1905)
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  Artist's redrawing of Captain Millar's sketch, Sunday Times (Perth), 25 May 1913 Scan

  Sunday Times (Perth), 1913, via Malcolm Smith ·from The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight (1913)
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  Facsimile of the mock Fish Liars Association certificate, Herald (Melbourne), 29 May 1913 Scan

  Herald (Melbourne), 1913, via Malcolm Smith ·from The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight (1913)
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  Captain Millar's sketch of the creature, probably Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 31 May 1913 Scan

  1913 newspaper, via Malcolm Smith ·from The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight (1913)
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  Floating log, illustrating a proposed explanation Scan

  Not credited ·from Two sea serpents off Cayuga Lake's eastern shore (Old Greeny), 1929 (1929)
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  Scenic view of Cayuga Lake Scan

  Not credited; site by Rob Morphy ·from Two sea serpents off Cayuga Lake's eastern shore (Old Greeny), 1929 (1929)
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  NYSDEC biologist Emily Zollweg-Horan holding a lake sturgeon Scan

  Dawn Dittman / Finger Lakes Land Trust ·from Two sea serpents off Cayuga Lake's eastern shore (Old Greeny), 1929 (1929)
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  Lake sturgeon, illustrating a proposed explanation Scan

  Not credited ·from Two sea serpents off Cayuga Lake's eastern shore (Old Greeny), 1929 (1929)
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  Deck plan of the Commonwealth Government Line Bay ships. Scan

  Wikimedia Commons ·from The Largs Bay sea serpent off Aden, 1933 (1933)
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  Captain W. M. Jermyn on board SS Largs Bay, 1929 to 1936. Scan

  Samuel J. Hood Studio, Australian National Maritime Museum, via Flickr Commons ·from The Largs Bay sea serpent off Aden, 1933 (1933)
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  The Largs Bay, known as a 'Bay Boat', one of the Commonwealth Line (undated). Scan

  John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland ·from The Largs Bay sea serpent off Aden, 1933 (1933)
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  New York Times, 9 January 1934, issue with the editorial Sea Serpent Scan

  Rare Newspapers ·from Arthur Grant's land sighting of the Loch Ness Monster on the Abriachan road, 1934 (1934)

  leadership and that small represent," say interers of an bar to Democracy is respons defeat" last the conscientious his head until No hope can be ent of "support of the nation" it. nion Square pal- the handwriting is obstinate, the upon every disi- ate him. If nec- ided Democrat in a chance to sign …

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  Newspaper article titled '1,300 pound sea monster discovered.' The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, A.K.), June 8, 1936. Scan

  Library of Congress, Chronicling America ·from Copalis Beach Sea Monster Carcass (1936)

  1,300 POUND SEA MONSTER DISCOVERED Crowds on Washington State Beach Examine Strange Creature ABERDEEN, Wash., June 8. Crowds on Copalis Beach here are examining the remains of a 12-foot, 1,300 pound sea monster resembling the legendary sea serpents, found on the beach. Dr. D. W. Black, Baltimore zoo…

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  Daily Colonist newspaper scan, 1937 Scan

  cadborosaurus.ca ·from The Naden Harbour Cadborosaurus Carcass (1937)

  CADDY FOOD FOR WHALE Post-Mortem on Leviathan Reveals Sad Fate of Baby Serpent Victorians, justly proud of their one and only Cadborosaurus, were inclined to jeer when reports reached here to the effect that baby sea serpents had been seen in Scotland's Loch Ness—that other home of strange denizens …

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  Great white shark, for comparison Scan

  from The Gourock Sea Serpent: Charles Rankin's 27-Foot Carcass on the Clyde (1942)
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  Probably an illustration of the Gourock carcass; content and credit unverified Scan

  from The Gourock Sea Serpent: Charles Rankin's 27-Foot Carcass on the Clyde (1942)
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  Reconstruction of the Gourock sea serpent based on Charles Rankin's sketch Scan

  Dr Karl Shuker ·from The Gourock Sea Serpent: Charles Rankin's 27-Foot Carcass on the Clyde (1942)
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  Gourock at sunset Scan

  from The Gourock Sea Serpent: Charles Rankin's 27-Foot Carcass on the Clyde (1942)
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  Uncaptioned general Caddy illustration; not the 1943 event Scan

  from The Owens and Russell Sea Serpent: Sea Lions in the Strait of Georgia (1943)
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  Uncaptioned general Caddy illustration; not the 1943 event Scan

  from The Owens and Russell Sea Serpent: Sea Lions in the Strait of Georgia (1943)
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  Header illustration for a 2024 article on local sea-monster legends, not the event. Scan

  WB Magazine ·from The Santa Clara Sea Serpent: A Ship Strikes a Monster off North Carolina (1947)
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  Sea serpent illustration from Harper's Weekly, March 1860 Scan

  Library of Congress ·from Ole Mikkelsen's Cassie sea serpent sighting off Cape Elizabeth (1958)
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  Sea serpent engraving from the Illustrated London News, 28 October 1848 (the Daedalus case) Scan

  Library of Congress ·from Ole Mikkelsen's Cassie sea serpent sighting off Cape Elizabeth (1958)
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  Loren Coleman holding a 10-foot anaconda skin linked to "Wessie" Scan

  Troy R. Bennett / BDN ·from Ole Mikkelsen's Cassie sea serpent sighting off Cape Elizabeth (1958)