Down the rabbit hole
Water Monster · Great Barrington, Massachusetts · 1903
7 documents · 1 independent account · 1 cited source we haven't found yet
7 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account. 1 cited source we haven't found yet.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 7 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 6 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
- 1 cited source named in the documents: 1 not found yet
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
- 6 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:
- The Rising son & Passaic City record: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- The Rising son & Bridgeton pioneer: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- The Rising son & The Cook County herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- Passaic City record & The sea coast echo: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- Passaic City record & Bridgeton pioneer: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- Passaic City record & The Cook County herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- The sea coast echo & Bridgeton pioneer: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; they name the same witness; same place; same year
- The sea coast echo & The Cook County herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quoted passages are nearly identical; they describe the same details; same place; same year
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 7 documents
- Earliest found Passaic City Record (Passaic City, N.J.) Newspaper · Apr 18, 1903
Image 2 of Passaic City record (Passaic City, N.J.), April 18, 1903 - Reprint The Fulton County News (Mcconnellsburg, Pa.) Newspaper · Apr 23, 1903
- Reprint Bridgeton Pioneer (Bridgeton, N.J.) Newspaper · Apr 23, 1903
Image 3 of Bridgeton pioneer (Bridgeton, N.J.), April 23, 1903 - Reprint The Rising Son (Kansas City, Mo.) 1896-19?? Newspaper · May 1, 1903
Image 6 of The Rising son (Kansas City, Mo.), May 1, 1903 - Reprint The Cook County Herald (Grand Marais, Minn.) Newspaper · Jun 6, 1903
Image 3 of The Cook County herald (Grand Marais, Minn.), June 6, 1903 - Reprint The Sea Coast Echo (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) Newspaper · Jun 27, 1903
Image 2 of The sea coast echo (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.), June 27, 1903 - Reprint The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) Newspaper · Feb 3, 1905
- cited, not yet found Springfield Republican (Newspaper) · named in The Cook County Herald (Grand Marais, Minn.), Jun 6, 1903 search for it ↗
- Earliest found Passaic City Record (Passaic City, N.J.) Newspaper · Apr 18, 1903
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
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