Other Aquatic · Lake Elizabeth, California · 1886
CA-1886ID case-9df6fb87aeAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 15, 1886to the day
- Where
- Lake Elizabeth, Californiato approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
[name] and his family were awakened by a monster that lifted their wagon, wrecked the wheels, bit an antelope, and splashed into the lake.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Lake Elizabeth, Los Angeles County, California, 93532, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 15, 1886
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-9df6fb87ae
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Source trail (2)
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- The Flying Serpent Who Battled a Train and Other American Dragons
Reddit · 2024-11-14
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - The Flying Serpent Who Battled a Train (and Other American Dragons)
Reddit · 2024-11-14
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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