Water Monster · Turtle Lake, Saskatchewan · 1981
SK-1981ID case-5fc83429ecAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Oct 23, 1981to the day
- Where
- Turtle Lake, Saskatchewanto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Reports claim a creature referred to as the "big Fish" was sighted in Turtle Lake on October 23, 1981, with descriptions varying from ten to thirty feet long.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Turtle Lake, Parkdale No. 498, Saskatchewan, Canada
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 23, 1981
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-5fc83429ec
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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.
- The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1982 (p. n5)
ISC Newsletter · 1982
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.