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St. Andrews Beacon, June 11, 1896
St. Andrews Serpent Light-Keeper Maloney Believes He Saw It Last Summer - It Swam Like a Race-Horse through St. Andrews Bay—No Oarsman Could Overtake it—An Attempt to Shoot it Proved a Failure
"I've been reading what Capt. Brooks said about the sea serpent in St. Andrews Bay," said the light-keeper Maloney of the Sand Reef light to the Beacon, "and I think there is something in it. What makes me think so? Well, I'll tell you. I think that I saw the self-same serpent last summer. It's true that I saw nothing 200 feet in length, but I saw something swimming through the Bay the like of which I never saw before and have not seen since. It was not a seal, because a seal will go under once in a while, but this fish or animal, or whatever it was, never put his head under water. It was around here for a about a week and its field of operations seemed to be between Digdeguash and the mouth of the Bay. Several times I saw it passing backward and forward. It always swam with about six feet of its body out of water. It had no tail that was visible to me, but it left a wake behind it like what a stem launch would make. Only once did it pass between the light-house and the shore; on all other occasions it kept well out in the bay. One day I saw it steaming down from "Diggedy" heading straight for the light. Now, though I to myself, I'll find out what you are, old boy. So I launched my boat, and taking my gun with me, rowed out in the Bay, hoping to get a shot at the creature. But it soon saw me and shifted its course. I followed after I for a while, but I might as well have chased a comet. It went away from me as if I was standing still. I haven't seen it this season," said Mr. Maloney, "but if that Calais captain saw anything at all he saw my visitor of last summer."

St. Andrews Beacon, Aug 2, 1906
At Last the Sea Serpent Seen In St. Andrews Bay on Thursday Last
The sea serpent has arrived! There is no longer any doubt about his serpentine majesty holding court in Quoddy waters. On Thursday evening last, about 7 o'clock, the great serpent was seen by light-keeper Theobald Rooney disporting himself quite close to the Sand Reef Light. He had driven two schools of herring ahead of him in the direction of the Holmes weir, when his attention seemed to be suddenly drawn towards the light-house. He moved around quietly for a while, and having satisfied his curiosity, stated off in the direction of Clam Cove head. Keeper Rooney looked at the serpent trough his glasses and judged he was between twenty-five and thirty feet long. The head was small and kept up a bobbing motion. That part of the body that was visible looked about the size of a large weir stake. Mr. Rooney at first thought it was a shark, but he could see no fin such as shark have in their back. As the serpent moved out of his range of vision he flipped up his tail in a "bye-bye" sort of way and then glided out of sight. This not the first sea snake Mr. Rooney has seen in St. Andrews bay. Several years ago, a large one appeared before him and other local fishermen and made a great noise as it scudded through the water. The serpent he saw on Thursday night was moving along in less strenuous fashion and made no noise whatever. Mr. Rooney is a reliable man who is not given to seeing "snakes" other than sea serpents.