Other Aquatic · Americus, Georgia · 1910

GA-1910ID case-f8ae22a2f6Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026

Creature: Other Aquatic
When: Jun 1910to the month
Where: Americus, Georgiafallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

Dr. P. F. Bahnsen reports that Judge Arnold hooked a large sea monster off Cybee which attempted to ram their boat and wound its arm-like protuberances about the rails before being beached.

See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet

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Details

Creature: Other Aquatic
Where: Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, 31709, 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: Jun 1910
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 11, 2026
Case id: case-f8ae22a2f6

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Source trail (1)

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Image 1 of Americus times-recorder (Americus, Ga.;[Americus, Ga.?]), June 19, 1910
Newspaper · 1910-06-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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