Water Monster · Mississippi River · 1882
UNI-1882ID case-c5b2d955ffAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 1882to the month
- Where
- Mississippi Riverto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The St. Louis Chronicle reports that the Mississippi river monster has not yet appeared this year, causing anxiety among its fans who expect it to be discovered by Memphis or Cairo newspapers around this season.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Mississippi River, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1882
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-c5b2d955ff
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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 3 of The Hickman courier (Hickman, Ky.), July 14, 1882
Newspaper · 1882-07-14
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.