Other Humanoid · Navidad River, Texas · 1850
TX-1850ID case-e68dd4249dAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Feb 1850to the month
- Where
- Navidad River, Texasto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that several persons have seen the creature and it has stolen items from settlers' houses, leaving footprints traced to the river bottom.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Navidad River, Jackson County, Texas, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 1850
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-e68dd4249d
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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 3 of The Athens post (Athens, Tenn.), February 22, 1850
Newspaper · 1850-02-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.