Water Monster · Saint Maries, Idaho · 1890
ID-1890ID case-c13e76857cAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Oct 11, 1890to the day
- Where
- Saint Maries, Idahoto approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a water monster pursued and killed a swimmer in a lake near Mullen, Idaho, confirmed by an old Indian tradition.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Saint Maries, Benewah County, Idaho, 83861, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 11, 1890
- 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 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-c13e76857c
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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 1 of Pittsburg dispatch (Pittsburg [Pa.]), October 15, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-10-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 11 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), October 26, 1890, (Morning)
Newspaper · 1890-10-26 - Image 11 of The morning news (Savannah, Ga.), November 2, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-11-02
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.