Down the rabbit hole
Other Aquatic · Long Key, Florida · 1923
3 documents · 2 independent accounts
3 documents tell this story. They trace back to 2 independent accounts.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 3 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 2 independent accounts behind those documents
- 1 copy reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 1 copy: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- New Britain herald & Brownsville herald: a person reviewed them and joined them
- The Bismarck tribune & Brownsville herald: the copy detector found the same text in both; their quotes overlap; they describe the same details; same place; same year
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 2 documents
- Earliest found The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.) Newspaper · Jun 19, 1923
Image 3 of The Bismarck tribune (Bismarck, N.D.), June 19, 1923 - Reprint Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.) Newspaper · Jun 20, 1923
Image 6 of Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.), June 20, 1923
- Earliest found The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.) Newspaper · Jun 19, 1923
- Account 2 (Separate account) 1 document
- Earliest found New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.) Newspaper · Jun 20, 1923
Image 11 of New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.), June 20, 1923
- Earliest found New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.) Newspaper · Jun 20, 1923
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1988
Another trail, same creature: 3 documents · 3 independent accounts - Bigfoot · Bluff Creek, California · 1967
The next-deepest trail: 5 documents · 4 independent accounts
Every rabbit hole → · How we tell copies from independent accounts