Other Aquatic · Churubusco, Indiana · 1949
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A gamer hiring a diver to capture a 500-pound overgrown snapping turtle is a comic, absurd scenario.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Mar 1949to the month
- Where
- Churubusco, Indianato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Gamer Gale Harris sought a diver to help capture Oscar, a giant reptile claimed by many people including his family to be an overgrown snapping turtle weighing 400 to 500 pounds.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Churubusco, Whitley County, Indiana, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 1949
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-a00e1183ae
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Source trail (1)
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 Bluffton news (Bluffton, Ohio), March 17, 1949
Newspaper · 1949-03-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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