Water Monster · Lyon County, Nevada · 1868
NV-1868ID case-941f1379cfAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Nov 1868to the month
- Where
- Lyon County, Nevadato county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
The author reports that prospectors in the vicinity of Pyramid Lake have claimed to see monsters, though the author notes they themselves have only seen shadows on the water.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Lyon County, Nevada, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Nov 1868
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-941f1379cf
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 2 of The evening Argus (Rock Island, Ill.), November 24, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-11-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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