Other Aquatic · Bassas da India, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises · 1873
FRA-1873ID case-270a646954Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1873to the year
- Where
- Bassas da India, Terres australes et antarctiques françaisesto approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
A ship in the Indian Ocean was reportedly dragged over by a sea monster.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Bassas da India, Îles Éparses de l'océan Indien, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, France
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1873
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-270a646954
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 3 of Deming graphic (Deming, N.M.), March 10, 1905
Newspaper · 1905-03-10
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)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.