Other / Unknown · Hopkinsville, Kentucky · 1893

KY-1893ID case-a4bbadb121Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 17, 2026

Creature: Other / Unknown
When: Feb 1893to the month
Where: Hopkinsville, Kentuckyfallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

The narrator claims that while sinking in mud and quicksand after escaping the panther's den, he caught hold of a monster turtle's tail which carried him to shore.

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Details

Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, 42240, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Feb 1893
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 17, 2026
Case id: case-a4bbadb121

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Source trail (1)

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Image 1 of Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.), February 17, 1893
Newspaper · 1893-02-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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