Water Monster · Congo, République démocratique du Congo · 1901
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- 1901to the year
- Where
- Congo, République démocratique du Congoto approximate level
- Reports
- 10 documents1 independent
The account
A French traveler reports that natives described a ferocious amphibious creature near Djali that attacked canoes and people, which he later saw descriptions of and heard was shot by Sergeant Sans.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Congo, République démocratique du Congo
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1901
- 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 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-84e6261713
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Source trail (5)
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 8 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), June 29, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-06-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 5 of Eagle River review (Eagle River, Wis.), August 5, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-08-05 - Image 6 of Corvallis gazette (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.), August 19, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-08-19
Show 2 more sources
- Image 3 of Lincoln County leader (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.), September 16, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-09-16 - Image 3 of The Caldwell tribune (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]), September 17, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-09-17
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
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