Water Monster · Forest Park, Missouri · 1914
MO-1914ID case-5abdb767a0Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jan 1914to the month
- Where
- Forest Park, Missourito approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing an ugly head appear above the River des Pees in Forest Park, which winked and ducked underwater after being pelted with stones.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Forest Park, Saint Louis, Missouri, 63112, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 1914
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-5abdb767a0
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Source trail (1)
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 Lafayette advertiser (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.), January 9, 1914
Newspaper · 1914-01-09
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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