Other Aquatic · Padang, Sumatera Barat · 1834
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A flying serpent that concaved its belly and was killed is strange beyond its genre.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Apr 1834to the month
- Where
- Padang, Sumatera Baratto town level
- Reports
- 10 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that natives claimed to have seen and killed a serpent that flew by concaving its belly.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Padang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 1834
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (10 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-8479a13954
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 10 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 Vermont telegraph (Brandon [Vt.]), April 28, 1841
Newspaper · 1841-04-28
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.