Water Monster · Bear Lake, Utah · 1907
UT-1907ID case-e33fcd71f5Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Sep 18, 1907to the day
- Where
- Bear Lake, Utahto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Hon. Aquilla Nebeker confirms the appearance of a monster in Bear Lake and describes his own experience with it, noting its size and temperament.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Bear Lake, Garden City, Rich County, Utah, 84038, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 18, 1907
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-e33fcd71f5
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 1 of The Logan Republican (Logan, Utah), September 21, 1907
Newspaper · 1907-09-21
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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.
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