Other Aquatic · Chatham Islands, British Columbia · 1955
BC-1955ID case-543e27caaaAdded to map Nov 3, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 1955to the month
- Where
- Chatham Islands, British Columbiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a 60-foot greenish-brown creature with flippers and a serrated back observed by ships' captains and a pilot near Chatham Islands.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Chatham Islands, Juan de Fuca Electoral Area, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 1955
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 3, 2026
- Case id
- case-543e27caaa
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 114 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), August 14, 1955
Newspaper · 1955-08-14
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.