Other / Unknown · Transvaal, South Africa · 1905

SOU-1905ID case-bb4405326aFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

Creature: Other / Unknown
When: 1905to the year
Where: Transvaal, South Africafallback location
Reports: 10 documents1 independent

The account

An English naturalist recounts a story from a Rhodesian police informant who approached within a hundred yards of a monster sleeping on a swamp border.

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Details

Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Transvaal, South Africa
mapped to state level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found).
When: 1905
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (10 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-bb4405326a

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Source trail (3)

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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 6 of Eagle River review (Eagle River, Wis.), July 30, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-07-30
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 8 of The Concordia sentinel (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.), July 31, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-07-31
Image 3 of The Hays free press (Hays, Kan.), August 5, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-08-05

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