Other Aquatic · Chañaral, Región de Atacama · 1931
CHI-1931ID case-3348de5f8bAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Oct 6, 1931to the day
- Where
- Chañaral, Región de Atacamato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Fishermen first spotted a strange creature off the port of Chanaral on October 6, 1931.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Chañaral, Provincia de Chañaral, Región de Atacama, 1490000, Chile
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 6, 1931
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-3348de5f8b
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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 78 of Detroit evening times (Detroit, Mich), May 7, 1944, (FINAL, THE AMERICAN WEEKLY)
Newspaper · 1944-05-07
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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