Down the rabbit hole
Water Monster · Bear Lake, Utah · 1870
2 documents · 2 independent accounts
2 documents tell this story. They trace back to 2 independent accounts.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 2 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 2 independent accounts behind those documents
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- The evening telegraph & Evening star: a person reviewed them and joined them
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 1 document
- Earliest found Image 2 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 1, 1870 Newspaper · Jun 1, 1870
- Account 2 (Separate account) 1 document
- Earliest found Image 6 of The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.]), June 8, 1870, (FIFTH EDITION) Newspaper · Jun 8, 1870
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Flap: Bear Lake, Utah, Apr–Jul 1870
3 reports close together in Apr–Jul 1870 - Water Monster · Fenwick Island, Delaware · 1925
Another trail, same creature: 2 documents · 2 independent accounts - Other Canine · Sutton, Massachusetts · 1855
The next-deepest trail: 2 documents · 2 independent accounts
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