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Other Aquatic · Kentucky · 1843

3 documents · 1 independent account

3 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.

The route

  1. One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
  2. 3 documents that tell it, as we collected them
  3. 1 independent account behind those documents
  4. 2 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses

Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.

Rabbit hole: Other Aquatic · Kentucky · 18433 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account. Each independent account is one row; time runs left to right. The earliest document we hold in each account is ringed. A full list follows the picture.Account 13 documents · 2 reprintsTIME (when each document was published) →Jul 2, 1843Jul 9Jul 16Jul 23Reprint · Ponola [Sic] Weekly Register (Ponola [Sic], Miss.) · Newspaper, Jul 8, 1843Ponola [Sic] Weekly Reg…Reprint · Arkansas Intelligencer (Van Buren, Ark.) · Image 1 of Arkansas intelligencer (Van Buren, Ark.), July 29, 1843 · Newspaper, Jul 29, 1843Arkansas IntelligencerEarliest found · Danbury Times (Danbury, Conn.) · Newspaper, Jun 28, 1843EARLIEST FOUNDDanbury TimesNewspapersame text (reprint)Earliest found

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

  • 2 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.

Every document, as a list

  1. Account 1 3 documents

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.

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