Water Monster · Patagonia, Chubut · 1922
ARG-1922ID case-62e36cfdedAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Apr 1922to the month
- Where
- Patagonia, Chubutto town level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Professor Riggs reports that Professor Oneilli claims reports of a plesiosaurus are still being received from the Patagonian wilds despite previous failed searches.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Patagonia, Municipio de Puerto Madryn, Departamento Biedma, Chubut, U9120, Argentina
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 1922
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-62e36cfded
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 32 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 22, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-12-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of Great Falls tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), December 23, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-12-23 - Image 6 of The Bismarck tribune (Bismarck, N.D.), December 26, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-12-26
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.