Other Aquatic · Los Angeles County, California
CA-NDID case-224465510eAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Los Angeles County, Californiato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The Los Angeles Herald claimed an amphibious beast had taken up residence in a reservoir and was eating large fish.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Los Angeles County, California, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-224465510e
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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.
- The Flying Serpent Who Battled a Train (and Other American Dragons)
Reddit · 2024-11-14
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.