Other Aquatic · Benton County, Arkansas · 1988
AR-1988ID case-142a78ecddFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 1988to the month
- Where
- Benton County, Arkansasto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large creature near a lake in Arkansas that twisted a tree trunk and growled.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Benton County, Arkansas, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 1988
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-142a78ecdd
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Fisherman has close encounter on lake in western Arkansas.
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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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