Other Aquatic · 0200
XX-0200ID case-b3a81270c2Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 0200to the year
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Naturalist Aelian wrote that such creatures had been seen and even found washed up on shore as far back as 200 A.D., when the creator was referred to as the “great Sea Centipede.”
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other Aquatic reports with no place (53) - When
- 0200
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-b3a81270c2
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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.
- Legends & Sightings of Cryptid Giant Centipedes
Reddit · 2017-05-29
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.