Other Aquatic · Phoenix, Arizona · 1922

AZ-1922ID case-442dea97dcFallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026

Creature: Other Aquatic
When: Apr 17, 1922to the day
Where: Phoenix, Arizonafallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

The narrator reports a week-long hunt where they and their party interacted with a friendly plesiosaurus that played with dogs, ignored artillery fire, and eventually tried to sit in the narrator's lap.

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Details

Creature: Other Aquatic
Where: Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, 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: Apr 17, 1922
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 8, 2026
Case id: case-442dea97dc

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Source trail (1)

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Image 4 of Arizona republican (Phoenix, Ariz.), April 17, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-04-17
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