Mermaid · Spain · 1737
SPA-1737ID case-af60bc9469Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Mermaid
- When
- 1737to the year
- Where
- Spainfallback location
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Fishermen in Vigo report catching a five-and-a-half-foot tall merman with a goat-like head and webbed toes.
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Details
- Creature
- Mermaid
- Where
- Spain
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- 1737
- 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 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-af60bc9469
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Source trail (1)
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 press (Worcester, Mass.), June 13, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-06-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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