Water Monster · British Columbia, Canada · 1927
BC-1927ID case-0ecd4a0be7Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Aug 1927to the month
- Where
- British Columbia, Canadato state level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
J. L. Logie reports seeing a strange animal with a sheep-like head and dark body in Okanogan Lake while driving along the shore.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- British Columbia, Canada
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 1927
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-0ecd4a0be7
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 4 of The Forrest City times and herald (Forrest City, Ark.), August 11, 1927
Newspaper · 1927-08-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of Pinedale roundup (Pinedale, Wyo.), August 25, 1927
Newspaper · 1927-08-25
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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.
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