Water Monster · Louisiana · 1915

LA-1915ID case-973f5b5281Added to map Oct 30, 2026

Creature: Water Monster
When: 1915to the year
Where: Louisianato state level
Reports: 4 documents1 independent

The account

Witness reports a sea monster discovered on Dernlere Island, Louisiana, described as a huge fish 80 feet long with the head of an elephant and snout of an alligator.

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Details

Creature: Water Monster
Where: Louisiana, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area
When: 1915
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-973f5b5281

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Source trail (2)

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Image 6 of Bill Barlow's budget and Converse County review (Douglas, Converse County, Wyo.), April 15, 1915
Newspaper · 1915-04-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 7 of The Southern herald (Liberty, Miss.), April 30, 1915
Newspaper · 1915-04-30

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