Other Aquatic · Coll, Alba / Scotland · 1808
UNI-1808ID case-7436f86b2cAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1808to the year
- Where
- Coll, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
Mr. McLean and the crews of thirteen fishing boats saw an animal similar to sea serpents near Coll in 1808.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Coll, Arinagour, Argyll and Bute, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1808
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-7436f86b2c
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Source trail (6)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 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 The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.), October 11, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-10-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Staunton spectator (Staunton, Va.), October 15, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-10-15 - Image 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 3, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-03
Show 3 more sources
- Image 1 of Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.), November 12, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-12 - Image 1 of Holmes County Republican (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio), November 20, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-20 - Image 5 of The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands), March 12, 1857
Newspaper · 1857-03-12
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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