Water Monster · Argyll and Bute, Alba / Scotland · 1913
UNI-1913ID case-9cb12be1aeAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Sep 1913to the month
- Where
- Argyll and Bute, Alba / Scotlandto county level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Rev. Alexander Maclean observed an object off the island of Col that moved with a dignified motion and had a shining eye.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Argyll and Bute, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Sep 1913
- 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-9cb12be1ae
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 7 of The Holly chieftain (Holly, Colo.), September 26, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-09-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The Celina Democrat (Celina, O. [Ohio]), October 3, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-10-03 - Image 2 of The St. Mary banner (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.), November 1, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-11-01
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.