Other Aquatic · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal · 1925
SOU-1925ID case-0041addcd1Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 25, 1925to the day
- Where
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natalto town level
- Reports
- 6 documents2 independent
The account
H. C. Bailance reports seeing a polar bear-sized sea monster fighting whales off the coast of Natal, which later washed up dead with snow-white hair and a pig-like snout.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Durban, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, 4057, South Africa
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 25, 1925
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-0041addcd1
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Source trail (5)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 2 of The Thermopolis independent (Thermopolis, Wyo.), April 3, 1925
Newspaper · 1925-04-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The broad ax (Salt Lake City, Utah;Chicago, Ill.), April 25, 1925
Newspaper · 1925-04-25 - Image 4 of The Pageland journal (Pageland, S.C.), May 6, 1925
Newspaper · 1925-05-06
Show 2 more sources
- Image 8 of Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.), June 25, 1925
Newspaper · 1925-06-25 - Image 4 of The Ely miner (Ely, Minn.), January 15, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-01-15
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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