Other Aquatic · Falkland Islands · 1903
FAL-1903ID case-3ef0cfc35fFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Dec 1903to the month
- Where
- Falkland Islandsto country level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a sea monster bit off his leg while he was in the water after falling from a ship near the Falkland Islands.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Falkland Islands
mapped to country level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 1903
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-3ef0cfc35f
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 10 of The Savannah morning news (Savannah, Ga.), December 22, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-12-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 8 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), January 1, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-01-01
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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