Other Aquatic · Dooley Creek, Georgia · 1882
GA-1882ID case-7a27607f60Added to map Nov 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- May 31, 1882to the day
- Where
- Dooley Creek, Georgiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The same farmer and his hands later referred to the creature that stole the hog as a 'water monster' after discovering human tracks instead of alligator tracks.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Dooley Creek, Lewner, Union County, Georgia, 30512, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- May 31, 1882
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-7a27607f60
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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 1 of Huntsville gazette (Huntsville, Ala.), June 3, 1882
Newspaper · 1882-06-03
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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