Other Aquatic · Washington, District of Columbia · 1908

WA-1908ID case-f3208bb7eeFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

Creature: Other Aquatic
When: 1908to the year
Where: Washington, District of Columbiafallback location
Reports: 3 documents1 independent

The account

The narrator reports that he and two companions saw a large reptilian creature in the Maggori River described as a cross between a sea serpent, leopard, and whale.

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Details

Creature: Other Aquatic
Where: Washington, District of Columbia, 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: 1908
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-f3208bb7ee

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Source trail (1)

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Image 37 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), September 19, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-09-19
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