Other Aquatic · Kentucky · 1843
KY-1843ID case-b0724fbcfbFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 21, 1843to the day
- Where
- Kentuckyfallback location
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a huge snake-like animal near the riverbank that swam across to the Indiana shore.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Kentucky
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Jul 21, 1843
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-b0724fbcfb
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 Arkansas intelligencer (Van Buren, Ark.), July 29, 1843
Newspaper · 1843-07-29
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.