Other Aquatic · Eel River, California · 1878
CA-1878ID case-a955c6f43aFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 24, 1878to the day
- Where
- Eel River, Californiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
G. D. Schumacher reports seeing and shooting at a large, crocodile-like aquatic creature with webbed feet while crossing the South Fork of Eel River.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Eel River, Humboldt County, California, 95571, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 24, 1878
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-a955c6f43a
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Source trail (1)
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 3 of New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.), August 28, 1878
Newspaper · 1878-08-28
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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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
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