Mermaid · Alaska · 1896
AK-1896ID case-56a9f6d61eAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Mermaid
- When
- Jul 16, 1896to the day
- Where
- Alaskato state level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a party of noblemen sighted and killed a merman-like creature off Watmoff Island which was later displayed in a coffin.
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Details
- Creature
- Mermaid
- Where
- Alaska, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 16, 1896
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-56a9f6d61e
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 Madison daily leader (Madison, S.D.), November 27, 1896
Newspaper · 1896-11-27
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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