Other Aquatic · Town of Laona, Wisconsin · 1983
WI-1983ID case-62be596f62First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 1983to the month
- Where
- Town of Laona, Wisconsinto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A witness reports seeing an 8-9 ft tall creature with a man-like face and brown matted hair in knee-deep water at Wabikon Lake, which screamed before fleeing.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Town of Laona, Forest County, Wisconsin, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1983
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-62be596f62
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Source trail (1)
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- Sighting by young fisherman at dusk on Wabikon Lake
BFRO · 2002-11-05
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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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