Other Aquatic · Ten Islands Historic Park, Alabama · 1877
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 1877to the month
- Where
- Ten Islands Historic Park, Alabamato approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report that in 1810 or 1811, settlers on the Coosa River encountered and killed a massive snake-like water creature which contained digested remains of an Indian, a deer, and a canoe inside its stomach.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Ten Islands Historic Park, St. Clair County, Alabama, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1877
- 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 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-4701bf159c
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Source trail (4)
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 2 of New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.]), July 15, 1877
Newspaper · 1877-07-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Public ledger (Memphis, Tenn.), July 31, 1877
Newspaper · 1877-07-31 - Image 3 of The Canton advocate (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]), August 8, 1877
Newspaper · 1877-08-08
Show 1 more source
- Image 2 of New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.]), August 19, 1877
Newspaper · 1877-08-19
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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