Other / Unknown · Caldwell, Idaho · 1922
ID-1922ID case-f145f0af56Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Feb 1922to the month
- Where
- Caldwell, Idahofallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Four scientists claim to have discovered a multi-headed serpent-like monster in the Boise River that devoured their wagon and drank the river dry.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, 83605, 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
- Feb 1922
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-f145f0af56
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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 5 of The Caldwell tribune (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]), February 3, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-02-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.