Mermaid · Saint Augustine, Florida · 1890
FL-1890ID case-ed12ad2842Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Mermaid
- When
- Apr 19, 1890to the day
- Where
- Saint Augustine, Floridato town level
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that W. W. Stanton caught a six-foot, pure white, scaleless creature with a human-like head and face, well-defined breasts, and four flippers while fishing off St. Augustine.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Mermaid
- Where
- Saint Augustine, Saint Johns County, Florida, 32084, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 19, 1890
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-ed12ad2842
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 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 Lafayette advertiser (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.), May 3, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-05-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.), May 15, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-05-15 - Image 2 of Custer weekly chronicle (Custer City, S.D.), May 17, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-05-17
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.