Other Aquatic · 東京都, 日本
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A turtle-headed figure hiding under a lily pad while a couple eats on a Tokyo nature trail is incongruous and absurd.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- 東京都, 日本to state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and his girlfriend saw a small, lanky, turtle-headed figure wade into a pond and hide under a lily pad while they were eating on a nature trail in Tokyo.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- 東京都, 日本
mapped to state level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 22, 2026
- Case id
- case-7373d4aec7
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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.
- Encountered a kappa while on vacation
Reddit · 2024-10-25
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)
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