Other Aquatic · Lurín, Lima · 1922
PER-1922ID case-3aa6eb8678Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Dec 21, 1922to the day
- Where
- Lurín, Limato town level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Fishermen reported a huge creature resembling a cross between a whale and a turtle was cast up on the beach at Lurin by tidal waves.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Lurín, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Lima, Perú
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 21, 1922
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-3aa6eb8678
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 3 of The Laramie Republican (Laramie, Wyo.), December 21, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-12-21
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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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