Other Aquatic · Maine · 1914
ME-1914ID case-1cd0e7a6a1Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Dec 1914to the month
- Where
- Mainefallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Captain Nicholson's crew reports a large marine animal puffing and snorting near their ship.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Maine
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Dec 1914
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-1cd0e7a6a1
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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 9 of Rock Springs miner (Rock Springs, Wyo.), December 12, 1914
Newspaper · 1914-12-12
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.