Other Aquatic · North Sea Haven, England · 1936
UNI-1936ID case-c8b0e61d00Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Sep 4, 1936to the day
- Where
- North Sea Haven, Englandto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a streamlined monster of prodigious size cavorting across the North Sea at high speed.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- North Sea Haven, Purfleet Quay, South Lynn, King's Lynn, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 4, 1936
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-c8b0e61d00
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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 The times-news (Hendersonville, N.C.), September 7, 1936
Newspaper · 1936-09-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 21 of The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), September 8, 1936
Newspaper · 1936-09-08
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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