Other Aquatic · Lake Utopia, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick · 1868
CAN-1868ID case-4ee0bc9f47Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 3, 1868to the day
- Where
- Lake Utopia, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswickto approximate level
- Reports
- 9 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a strange monster with legs and fins was discovered near the shore of Lake Utopia on August 3, attacked by musketry, and exhibited signs of life the following day.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Lake Utopia, Utopia, Saint George Parish, Municipality of Eastern Charlotte, Charlotte County, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 3, 1868
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (9 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-4ee0bc9f47
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Source trail (7)
Down the rabbit hole → 9 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 daily dispatch (Richmond [Va.]), October 20, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-10-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.), October 21, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-10-21 - Image 1 of Watertown republican (Watertown, Wis.), October 28, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-10-28
Show 4 more sources
- Image 1 of Mineral Point weekly tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.), November 4, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-11-04 - Image 4 of North Iowa times (McGregor, Iowa), November 11, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-11-11 - Image 1 of The aegis & intelligencer (Bel Air, Md.), November 13, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-11-13 - Image 1 of The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.), November 28, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-11-28
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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