Mermaid · Baja California Sur, México · 1823
MXI-1823ID case-6c6006a823Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Mermaid
- When
- 1823to the year
- Where
- Baja California Sur, Méxicoto state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that Hernando Grijalva claimed to have seen a mermaid-like creature in 1823 near the Gulf coast of Lower California.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Mermaid
- Where
- Baja California Sur, México
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1823
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-6c6006a823
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Source trail (1)
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 6 of Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.]), February 15, 1863
Newspaper · 1863-02-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
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.