Other Aquatic · Portage County, Ohio · 1853
OH-1853ID case-ce6702453dAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Aug 12, 1853to the day
- Where
- Portage County, Ohioto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a large brown snake with a human-like head and eight or ten young serpents in Browning Pond.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Portage County, Ohio, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 12, 1853
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-ce6702453d
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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 1 of Portage sentinel (Ravenna, Ohio), August 17, 1853
Newspaper · 1853-08-17
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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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
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