Other Aquatic · Burke County, North Carolina · 2013
NC-2013ID case-ea167c595bFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 12, 2013to the day
- Where
- Burke County, North Carolinafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a blackish object jump into the lake approximately two weeks prior to the report.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Burke County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to county level · from the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the source's database record (county or area), not the witness's words. - When
- Jun 12, 2013
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-ea167c595b
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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.
- Fisherman reports possible sightings and activity around Lake James
BFRO · 2013-06-26
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.