Other Aquatic · Bolivar, Tennessee · 1873
TN-1873ID case-4206e2952fFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 1873to the month
- Where
- Bolivar, Tennesseefallback location
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that Reynolds claimed to see a merman or mermaid which disappeared when he returned with companions.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Bolivar, Hardeman County, West Tennessee, Tennessee, 38008, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Jun 1873
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-4206e2952f
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 1 of The Bolivar bulletin (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), June 20, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-06-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The home journal (Winchester, Tenn.), June 26, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-06-26
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.