Other Aquatic · Lom, Innlandet · 1822
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A monster the size of an ox and a quarter-mile long is extreme in scale and odd.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1822to the year
- Where
- Lom, Innlandetto town level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
A monster with a body as large as an ox and a fourth of a mile long appeared off the Island of Loroe in 1822.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Lom, Innlandet, Norge
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1822
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-e61e36a82b
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Source trail (4)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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.
- Image 1 of The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.), October 11, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-10-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Staunton spectator (Staunton, Va.), October 15, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-10-15 - Image 1 of Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.), November 12, 1856
Newspaper · 1856-11-12
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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)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.