Other Aquatic · Dunn County, Wisconsin · 1922
WI-1922ID case-3fde2c425eAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 1922to the month
- Where
- Dunn County, Wisconsinto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Editor Sims reports discovering a water monster he calls the 'mud puppy' in the waters of the Tump river.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 1922
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-3fde2c425e
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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 2 of Ladysmith news-budget (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.), June 23, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-06-23
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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