Water Monster · Beatrice, Nebraska · 1914

NE-1914ID case-a698251e6eFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

The narrator and others on a boat observed a large reptilian creature with ridged back and a head rising from the water near High Point.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska, 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 1914
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-a698251e6e

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Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect

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Image 6 of The Beatrice daily express (Beatrice, Neb.), February 18, 1914
Newspaper · 1914-02-18
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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