Other Aquatic · New Jersey · 1881
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A beast resembling a bear on land and a fish in the water is a hybrid.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Nov 1881to the month
- Where
- New Jerseyto state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Villagers in Green Back, New Jersey report a strange beast resembling a bear on land and a fish in water that was fired upon by hunters.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- New Jersey, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Nov 1881
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-b9cfb015fd
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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.
- Image 4 of The New Bloomfield, Pa. times (New Bloomfield, Pa.), November 29, 1881
Newspaper · 1881-11-29
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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