Other Aquatic · Durham, North Carolina · 1894

NC-1894ID case-5b5a9e9183Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026

The account

A legend is recounted of a man who slew a 'worm' at Stockburn, with its sword and effigy preserved in the local church.

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Creature: Other Aquatic
Where: Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Jan 1894
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 11, 2026
Case id: case-5b5a9e9183

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Image 4 of The Durham daily globe (Durham, N.C.), January 26, 1894
Newspaper · 1894-01-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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