Water Monster · San Antonio, Texas · 1934
TX-1934ID case-e80d0a7b03Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jun 1934to the month
- Where
- San Antonio, Texasfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A description is provided of a river monster with an over-shaped body, long neck, small head, blue back, and yellow stomach that travels with undulating motion.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 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
- Jun 1934
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-e80d0a7b03
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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 22 of San Antonio light (San Antonio, Tex.), June 29, 1934, (FINAL NIGHT EDITION)
Newspaper · 1934-06-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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