Water Monster · Patagonia, Santa Cruz · 1922
ARG-1922ID case-6a073a3decAdded to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Apr 1922to the month
- Where
- Patagonia, Santa Cruzto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Curate Onelli reported seeing a swan-necked monster with an alligator body swimming in a Patagonia lake, which was claimed to be a live plesiosaurus.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Patagonia, Río Gallegos, Municipio de Río Gallegos, Güer Aike, Santa Cruz, 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
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-6a073a3dec
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 6 of The Milwaukee leader (Milwaukee, Wis.), April 21, 1922, (Morning Edition)
Newspaper · 1922-04-21
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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
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