Other Aquatic · Suriname · 1787
SUR-1787ID case-322cc8a1b6Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1787to the year
- Where
- Surinameto country level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Mr. [name] describes a mermaid-like animal seen in Surinam rivers, called 'mother of the waters' by Indians.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Suriname
mapped to country level · from the report's own words - When
- 1787
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-322cc8a1b6
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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 1 of The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), July 17, 1842
Newspaper · 1842-07-17
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.