Other Aquatic · Waynesville, Ohio · 1880s
OH-1880ID case-b7708affe3Added to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- the 1880sto the decade
- Where
- Waynesville, Ohioto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Residents of Waynesville claimed to have spotted the track of a snake of unusual size that had crossed the dusty pike above town.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Waynesville, Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- the 1880s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-b7708affe3
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.
- Ohio's Strange Menagerie of Reptilian and Amphibian Monsters - The Loveland Frog, the Crosswick Monster and the Red-Eyed Reptile of Bellbrook
Reddit · 2024-12-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Ohio's Strange Menagerie of Reptilian and Amphibian Monsters
Reddit · 2024-12-11
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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