Vampire · Pacific Ocean · 1873

PAC-1873ID case-fecfdfe3a7Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026

Creature: Vampire
When: Mar 16, 1873to the day
Where: Pacific Oceanfallback location
Reports: 4 documents1 independent

The account

Witness reports that a crew member on the steamship Nevada captured a strange beast resembling a vampire bat with dog-like features while sailing in the Middle Pacific.

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Details

Creature: Vampire
Where: Pacific Ocean
mapped to country level · from the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the sea or ocean named in the report (exact place not found).
When: Mar 16, 1873
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Nov 10, 2026
Case id: case-fecfdfe3a7

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 1 of Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.), March 16, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-03-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 1 of The Findlay Jeffersonian (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio), April 11, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-04-11

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