Other Aquatic · 1845
XX-1845ID case-edb15eef8bAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- 1845to the year
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Captain McQuhal reported seeing an enormous serpent swimming rapidly towards his ship in 1845.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other Aquatic reports with no place (53) - When
- 1845
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-edb15eef8b
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Source trail (4)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 2 of The Liberal democrat (Liberal, Kan.), September 26, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-09-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 13 of The Ordway new era (Ordway, Colo.), September 26, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-09-26 - Image 2 of Abbeville progress (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.), September 27, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-09-27
Show 1 more source
- Image 2 of The St. Mary banner (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.), November 1, 1913
Newspaper · 1913-11-01
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)
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