Water Monster · Wessington Springs, South Dakota · 1887

Details

Creature

Water Monster

Where

Wessington Springs, Wessington Springs Township, Jerauld County, South Dakota, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.

When

Oct 1887

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 9, 2026

Case id

case-d832b7fccc

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Source trail (2)

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 5 of Wessington Springs herald (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]), October 28, 1887
   Newspaper · 1887-10-28
   Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
2. Image 3 of Bill Barlow's budget (Douglas, Converse County, Wyo.), November 16, 1887
   Newspaper · 1887-11-16

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