Other Aquatic · Glynn County, Georgia · 1869
GA-1869ID case-4bce92de0fAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Mar 5, 1869to the day
- Where
- Glynn County, Georgiato county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Perry reports finding a large, dead carcass with an alligator-shaped head and long neck floating off the coast of Georgia, corroborated by pilots and a lighthouse keeper.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Glynn County, Georgia, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 5, 1869
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-4bce92de0f
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 3 of The Charleston daily news (Charleston, S.C.), March 15, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-03-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The Charleston daily news (Charleston, S.C.), March 15, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-03-15
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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