Other Aquatic · Vermilion Parish, Louisiana · 1883
LA-1883ID case-49de49ec5bAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 7, 1883to the day
- Where
- Vermilion Parish, Louisianato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Four hunters in Louisiana encountered a thirty-foot long reptilian monster with mottled back and alligator-like features in the waters of Lake Catherine.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 7, 1883
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-49de49ec5b
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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 2 of The National tribune (Washington, D.C.), July 12, 1883
Newspaper · 1883-07-12
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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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