Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1934
UNI-1934ID case-fa7bd401d0Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Feb 1934to the month
- Where
- Loch Ness, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses in the Loch Ness region of Scotland reported the appearance of an amphibian monster and found strange four-toed tracks on the soft shore.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Loch Ness, Dores, Highland, Alba / Scotland, IV63 7YD, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 1934
- 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-fa7bd401d0
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 21 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), February 19, 1934
Newspaper · 1934-02-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of Smyrna times (Smyrna, Del.), March 14, 1934
Newspaper · 1934-03-14 - Image 4 of The weekly gazette (East Hartford, CT), March 23, 1934
Newspaper · 1934-03-23
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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