Water Monster · Saint Louis, Missouri · 1913
MO-1913ID case-464c0137ebAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Dec 1913to the month
- Where
- Saint Louis, Missourito town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing an ugly head appear above the water at Franklin bridge in Forest Park, which blinked and then ducked beneath the water.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 1913
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-464c0137eb
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Source trail (1)
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 4 of The Lafayette advertiser (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.), December 23, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-12-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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.
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