Other Aquatic · Baltimore, Munster · 1915
IRE-1915ID case-a8335e3f1bAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 30, 1915to the day
- Where
- Baltimore, Munsterto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
U-boat commander Freiherr George G von Forstner reported seeing a giant crocodile-like monster appear from the sea after an explosion during the sinking of the steamer Iberian.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Baltimore, West Cork, County Cork, Munster, P81 F623, Éire / Ireland
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 30, 1915
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-a8335e3f1b
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- U-28 Creature
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Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - U-28 Monster
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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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