Other Aquatic · Mountain View, Arkansas · 2017
AR-2017ID case-5c89d4da49First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 11, 2017to the day
- Where
- Mountain View, Arkansasto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a massive, reddish-furred creature with long arms standing chest-deep in a creek before climbing an erosion bank.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Mountain View, Stone County, Arkansas, 72560, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 11, 2017
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-5c89d4da49
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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.
- Two fishermen describe daylight sighting 10 miles south of Mountain View
BFRO · 2019-03-10
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.