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Other Aquatic · Lone Pine, California · 1868

CA-1868ID case-d197264773Added to map Oct 30, 2026
Creature
Other Aquatic
When
1868to the year
Where
Lone Pine, Californiato approximate level
Reports
4 documents1 independent

The account

Witness reports an account of three or four monster serpents seen in Owens Lake causing its waters to boil.

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Details

Creature
Other Aquatic
Where
Lone Pine, Inyo County, California, 93545, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area
When
1868
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 30, 2026
Case id
case-d197264773

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Source trail (3)

Down the rabbit hole → 4 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.

  1. Image 1 of Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.]), October 29, 1868
    Newspaper · 1868-10-29
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 2 of The evening Argus (Rock Island, Ill.), November 24, 1868
    Newspaper · 1868-11-24
  3. Image 1 of The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.), December 19, 1868
    Newspaper · 1868-12-19

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