Other / Unknown · Portsmouth, New Hampshire · 1863
NH-1863ID case-799dc162bdAdded to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Nov 14, 1863to the day
- Where
- Portsmouth, New Hampshireto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A pilot boat brought a massive turtle weighing twelve hundred pounds to the wharf, which was caught ten miles from port and survived until Thursday morning.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 14, 1863
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-799dc162bd
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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 3 of Wilmington journal (Wilmington, N.C.), June 30, 1864
Newspaper · 1864-06-30
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.