Other Aquatic · Brinkley, Arkansas · 1913
AR-1913ID case-0062258f4dFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- May 1913to the month
- Where
- Brinkley, Arkansasfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a monster catfish weighing about 100 pounds was caught in the Piney Drainage Canal by Dr. [name].
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Brinkley, Monroe County, Arkansas, 72021, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- May 1913
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-0062258f4d
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Source trail (1)
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 4 of The Brinkley argus (Brinkley, Ark.), May 2, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-05-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.