Other Aquatic · Mineral Park, Arizona · 1888
AZ-1888ID case-600a015a20Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Dec 1888to the month
- Where
- Mineral Park, Arizonafallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The Eoundout aquatic snake was said to have a mottled back and long dorsal fin.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Mineral Park, Cochise County, Arizona, United States
mapped to approximate 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
- Dec 1888
- 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 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-600a015a20
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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.
- Image 1 of Mohave County miner (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]), December 1, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-12-01
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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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