Other Aquatic · Río Negro, Região Norte · 1907
BRA-1907ID case-93952fa062Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1907to the year
- Where
- Río Negro, Região Norteto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Lt. Col. [name] H. Fawcett reported seeing a giant anaconda near the Rio Negro in 1907 and shooting it.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Río Negro, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Amazonas, Região Norte, Brasil
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1907
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-93952fa062
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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.
- The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1992 (p. n7)
ISC Newsletter · 1992
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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