Down the rabbit hole
Water Monster · Região Nordeste, Brasil · 1875
6 documents · 1 independent account
6 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 6 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 5 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.
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
- 5 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- Yorkville enquirer & The Chickasha daily express: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- Yorkville enquirer & The Chickasha daily express: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- Yorkville enquirer & The Jackson herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- Yorkville enquirer & The Jackson herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The Chickasha daily express: their quoted passages are nearly identical; they share a passage of text; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The Chickasha daily express & The Jackson herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The Chickasha daily express & The Jackson herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place, same day
- The Chickasha daily express & The Jackson herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place, same day
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 6 documents
- Earliest found The Emporia News (Emporia, Kan.) Newspaper · Feb 23, 1877
Image 1 of The Emporia news (Emporia, Kan.), February 23, 1877 - Reprint The Bossier Banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) Newspaper · Mar 8, 1877
- Reprint Deming Graphic (Deming, N.M.) Newspaper · Mar 10, 1905
- Reprint The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) Newspaper · Sep 30, 1905
Image 2 of The Chickasha daily express (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]), September 30, 1905 - Reprint The Jackson Herald (Jackson, Mo.) Newspaper · Oct 12, 1905
Image 2 of The Jackson herald (Jackson, Mo.), October 12, 1905 - Reprint Yorkville Enquirer (Yorkville, S.C.) Newspaper · Oct 31, 1905
Image 1 of Yorkville enquirer (Yorkville, S.C.), October 31, 1905
- Earliest found The Emporia News (Emporia, Kan.) Newspaper · Feb 23, 1877
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.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Water Monster · Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania · 1845
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