Down the rabbit hole
Other Aquatic · Achill Island - Acaill, Connacht · 1890
3 documents · 1 independent account · 1 cited source we haven't found yet
3 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account. 1 cited source we haven't found yet.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 3 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 2 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
- 1 cited source named in the documents: 1 not found yet
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 2 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 3 documents
- Earliest found Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19?? Newspaper · Jan 17, 1890
Image 6 of Fisherman & farmer (Edenton, N.C.), January 17, 1890 - Reprint The Enterprise (Sheridan, Johnson County, Wyo.) Newspaper · Feb 15, 1890
- Reprint Herald And News (West Randolph, Vt.) Newspaper · Feb 27, 1890
- cited, not yet found London Standard (Newspaper) · named in Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, Jan 17, 1890 search for it ↗
- Earliest found Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19?? Newspaper · Jan 17, 1890
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Other Aquatic · Tampa Bay, Florida · 1879
Another trail, same creature: 3 documents · 1 independent account - Water Monster · Lyon County, Nevada · 1868
The next-deepest trail: 3 documents · 1 independent account
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