Down the rabbit hole
Other Aquatic · Lake Utopia, New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick · 1868
9 documents · 1 independent account
9 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 9 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 8 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 8 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- North Iowa times & Watertown republican: the copy detector found the same text in both; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- North Iowa times & Nashville union and American: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The Placer herald & The daily dispatch: the copy detector found the same text in both; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The Placer herald & Mineral Point weekly tribune: the copy detector found the same text in both; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The daily dispatch & Mineral Point weekly tribune: the copy detector found the same text in both; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- North Iowa times & Mineral Point weekly tribune: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- Watertown republican & Nashville union and American: the copy detector found the same text in both; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- Watertown republican & Mineral Point weekly tribune: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place, same day
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 9 documents
- Earliest found The Daily Dispatch (Richmond [Va.]) Newspaper · Oct 20, 1868
Image 4 of The daily dispatch (Richmond [Va.]), October 20, 1868 - Reprint Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.) Newspaper · Oct 20, 1868
- Reprint Nashville Union And American (Nashville, Tenn.) Newspaper · Oct 21, 1868
Image 1 of Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.), October 21, 1868 - Reprint Staunton Spectator (Staunton, Va.) Newspaper · Oct 27, 1868
- Reprint Watertown Republican (Watertown, Wis.) Newspaper · Oct 28, 1868
Image 1 of Watertown republican (Watertown, Wis.), October 28, 1868 - Reprint Mineral Point Weekly Tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.) Newspaper · Nov 4, 1868
Image 1 of Mineral Point weekly tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.), November 4, 1868 - Reprint North Iowa Times (Mcgregor, Iowa) Newspaper · Nov 11, 1868
Image 4 of North Iowa times (McGregor, Iowa), November 11, 1868 - Reprint The Aegis & Intelligencer (Bel Air, Md.) Newspaper · Nov 13, 1868
Image 1 of The aegis & intelligencer (Bel Air, Md.), November 13, 1868 - Reprint The Placer Herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) Newspaper · Nov 28, 1868
Image 1 of The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.), November 28, 1868
- Earliest found The Daily Dispatch (Richmond [Va.]) Newspaper · Oct 20, 1868
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Other Aquatic · Seguin, Texas · 1843
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