Other Aquatic · Firth of Forth, Alba / Scotland · 1912
UNI-1912ID case-7a5684370aAdded to map Nov 4, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 1912to the month
- Where
- Firth of Forth, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
A huge bone believed to be a vertebra of a whale or great sea monster was found in an ancient sand bed in Proomhall gardens.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Firth of Forth, East Lothian, Alba / Scotland, KY12 8LA, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1912
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 4, 2026
- Case id
- case-7a5684370a
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 4 of Charlevoix county herald (East Jordan, Mich.), July 6, 1912
Newspaper · 1912-07-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 6 of Las Vegas optic (East Las Vegas, N.M.), July 9, 1912, (CITY EDITION)
Newspaper · 1912-07-09
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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