Other Aquatic · 1837
XX-1837ID case-273aadb048Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1837to the year
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
A credible man and his two sons saw a serpent follow their boat and swim slowly by on an island in 1837.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other Aquatic reports with no place (53) - When
- 1837
- 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 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-273aadb048
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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 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 3, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.), November 12, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-12
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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