Other Aquatic · Тараз, Жамбыл облысы · 1976
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A monster in Lake Kok-Kol resembling a one-humped camel with a serpent's head is a bizarre hybrid.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1976to the year
- Where
- Тараз, Жамбыл облысыto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Geographer [name] claimed to have seen a monster in Lake Kok-Kol described as resembling a one-humped camel with a serpent's head.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Тараз, Тараз қаласының әкімшілігі, Жамбыл облысы, 080000, Қазақстан
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1976
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-617d57c0f6
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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. 5, No. 4, Winter 1986 (p. n9)
ISC Newsletter · 1986
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.