Other Aquatic · Winston-Salem, North Carolina · 1887
NC-1887ID case-0cbfdb95faFallback locationAdded to map Nov 12, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 1887to the month
- Where
- Winston-Salem, North Carolinafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a strange creature on the river bank that had claws like an alligator and a fish tail.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, 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
- Jun 1887
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 12, 2026
- Case id
- case-0cbfdb95fa
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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 1 of The weekly sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.), June 23, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-06-23
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.