Other Aquatic · Buhawen, Central Luzon · 2002
PHI-2002ID case-81063293d3Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Nov 5, 2002to the day
- Where
- Buhawen, Central Luzonto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
An Aeta boy mistook a huge, black, serpentine creature for a floating log in the Tikis River before it moved.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Buhawen, San Marcelino, Zambales, Central Luzon, 2207, Philippines
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Nov 5, 2002
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-81063293d3
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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.
- Some of the Non-Mythological Cryptids of the Philippines.
Reddit · 2023-03-26
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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