Other Aquatic · Oregon · 1950
OR-1950ID case-fcf56a7561Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 5, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Mar 1950to the month
- Where
- Oregonfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Residents of Lelake, Oregon, searched for a marine biologist to identify a long dead mass with tails and hair that washed up on the Pacific shore.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Oregon
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Mar 1950
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 5, 2026
- Case id
- case-fcf56a7561
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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 1 of The daily Alaska empire (Juneau, Alaska), March 7, 1950
Newspaper · 1950-03-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
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.