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litchfield enquirer (litchfield, conn.) 1829-current — lake monster

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1855-10-04
Location: litchfield, connecticut, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: litchfield enquirer (litchfield, conn.) 1829-current · 1855-10-04 · page 2
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1855-10-04 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “lake monster”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... i description of the Silyer Lake monster and j the means adopted for his capture. The* writer, for whose respectability and truth fulness the Times vouches, say* there are unquestionably two monster snakes and a brood of young ones in the lakeland be 'thinks it is to the existence of the you 1,2 snafcelitigs that tlte punple are indebted for the more frequent appearance of the old ones this season than heretofore. A few days since one of the old ones raised his head, which the writer say* was larger than the head of a horse, eight feet out of water, within two rods of a man who was watching for him with a gun, ...

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