Other / Unknown · Tucson, Arizona · 2005
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Sep 2005to the month
- Where
- Tucson, Arizonato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a large, hairy, foul-smelling animal with huge teeth and brownish-green eyes approached while fishing in the White Mountains before running away.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 2005
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-ffb50ff4a2
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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.
- Fisherman encounters foul-smelling creature at close range
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Further reading
Books that mention this place
A match on the place name, not necessarily this case. Once you have borrowed a book, its link opens the search inside it on the place.
- Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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More on this creature
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
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