Other Aquatic · Pectols Pyramid, Utah · 1868
UT-1868ID case-a8c54a5194Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Oct 1868to the month
- Where
- Pectols Pyramid, Utahto approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Indians report seeing the backs of black monsters protruding above the water in a lake they avoid due to superstition.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Pectols Pyramid, Wayne County, Utah, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Oct 1868
- 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-a8c54a5194
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 1 of Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.]), October 29, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-10-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.), December 19, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-12-19
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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