Other Aquatic · Athens, Tennessee · 1869
TN-1869ID case-4232525ef7Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- May 24, 1869to the day
- Where
- Athens, Tennesseeto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Mr. S. Noisbit claims to have caught a bizarre creature with monkey-like features, a human neck and breast, and a shell on its back while fishing in the Tennessee 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
- Athens, McMinn County, East Tennessee, Tennessee, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- May 24, 1869
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-4232525ef7
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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 3 of The home journal (Winchester, Tenn.), May 27, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-05-27
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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