Other Aquatic · Saline County, Kansas · 2012
KS-2012ID case-77d47ea431First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- May 5, 2012to the day
- Where
- Saline County, Kansasto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large creature with red eyes peeking from behind a tree while fishing at Kanopolis Lake.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Saline County, Kansas, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- May 5, 2012
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-77d47ea431
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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.
- Possible encounter while fishing at Kanapolis Lake
BFRO · 2012-05-05
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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.