Water Monster · Flathead Lake, Montana · 1951
MT-1951ID case-e4cfa6e019Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Sep 1951to the month
- Where
- Flathead Lake, Montanato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Realtor J. F. McAlear reports that the 'Big Fish' in Flathead Lake is much larger than previously reported, measuring 11 to 20 feet long and weighing up to a ton.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Flathead Lake, Lake County, Montana, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 1951
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-e4cfa6e019
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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 St. Ignatius post (St. Ignatius, Mont.), September 20, 1951
Newspaper · 1951-09-20
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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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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