Water Monster · Chicago, Illinois · 1904

IL-1904ID case-07d51d200dFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Sergeant Sans shot an animal called the water tiger near the upper Ogue, but it escaped.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Chicago, South Chicago Township, Cook County, Illinois, 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: 1904
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (9 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-07d51d200d

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Down the rabbit hole → 9 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 7 of Chicago eagle (Chicago, Ill.), August 13, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-08-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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