Other Aquatic · Ravenswood, California · 1871
CA-1871ID case-5eb593428cAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jan 24, 1871to the day
- Where
- Ravenswood, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
George Rifenstal claims he shot and killed two large, finless sea monsters in the bay near Ravenswood that were engaged in combat.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Ravenswood, East Palo Alto, San Mateo County, California, 94303, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 24, 1871
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-5eb593428c
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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 6 of New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.]), February 5, 1871
Newspaper · 1871-02-05
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.