Other Aquatic · Seguin, Texas · 1843
TX-1843ID case-1ebbc5aa15Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Sep 26, 1843to the day
- Where
- Seguin, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Mclntire describes a strange fish near Seguin that was about thirty feet long with a body the size of a tan boat and striped like a tiger.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 26, 1843
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-1ebbc5aa15
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Source trail (4)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 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 2 of The daily Madisonian (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]), October 7, 1843
Newspaper · 1843-10-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of The Madisonian (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]), October 9, 1843
Newspaper · 1843-10-09 - Image 2 of Danbury times (Danbury, Conn.), October 11, 1843
Newspaper · 1843-10-11
Show 1 more source
- Image 2 of Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.), October 17, 1843
Newspaper · 1843-10-17
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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