Water Monster · Oneida County, Idaho · 1871
ID-1871ID case-a44dfb5817Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- May 15, 1871to the day
- Where
- Oneida County, Idahoto county level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
William Budge reports that he, William Broomhead, and Milando Pratt observed a large, furry aquatic animal with a fox-like face swimming near the shore of Bear Lake before it dived.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Oneida County, Idaho, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- May 15, 1871
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-a44dfb5817
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 Watertown republican (Watertown, Wis.), June 10, 1874
Newspaper · 1874-06-10
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The Superior times (Superior, Wis.), June 13, 1874
Newspaper · 1874-06-13
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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