Other / Unknown · Clarksburg, West Virginia · 1908

WV-1908ID case-6a01cfb878Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026

The account

Witnesses report a monster 75-pound turtle was captured in Muddy creek near the Tuna hotel.

See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet

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Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, United States
mapped to town 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: Jul 1908
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 11, 2026
Case id: case-6a01cfb878

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Image 6 of The Clarksburg telegram (Clarksburg, W. Va.), July 2, 1908
Newspaper · 1908-07-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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