Water Monster · Lake Elsinore, California · 1934
CA-1934ID case-4d8916f125Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Sep 14, 1934to the day
- Where
- Lake Elsinore, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
C. B. Greenstreet reports seeing a large creature moving on the surface of Lake Elsinore with his wife and two children.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 14, 1934
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-4d8916f125
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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 11 of San Antonio light (San Antonio, Tex.), September 14, 1934, (HOME EDITION)
Newspaper · 1934-09-14
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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