Other / Unknown · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal · 1860
SOU-1860ID case-55db4b464cFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 31, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Feb 1860to the month
- Where
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natalto town level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator reports seeing a gigantic snake coiled in his bedding that attacked him with its teeth and body weight.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Durban, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, 4057, South Africa
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 1860
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 31, 2026
- Case id
- case-55db4b464c
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Source trail (1)
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 1 of The Ashland union (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio), February 29, 1860
Newspaper · 1860-02-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
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.
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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.