Other Aquatic · Gloucester County, New Jersey · 1912
NJ-1912ID case-14a5469beeAdded to map Oct 29, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 16, 1912to the day
- Where
- Gloucester County, New Jerseyto county level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
Daniel Miller and Harry Taylor report being attacked by a strange creature with two rows of teeth while fishing in the Delaware River.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 16, 1912
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 29, 2026
- Case id
- case-14a5469bee
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 The Bourbon news (Paris, Ky.), August 16, 1912
Newspaper · 1912-08-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of Charlevoix county herald (East Jordan, Mich.), August 24, 1912
Newspaper · 1912-08-24
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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