Other Aquatic · Hagansport, Texas · 2002
TX-2002ID case-5c87d7614cFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 4, 2002to the day
- Where
- Hagansport, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a dark-haired, 7-foot tall creature in the water of the Sulphur River that walked to shore.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Hagansport, Franklin County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 4, 2002
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-5c87d7614c
Place lookups use data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via Nominatim. All credits
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.
- Submitted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003. Arrowhead hunter has distant encounter in Sulphur River bottoms.
BFRO · 2003-12-30
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.