Other / Unknown reports from the 1890s
21 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Other / Unknown · Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin · 1896
The article recounts folklore tales told by loggers about a creature called the hodag, described as the king of the highlands, which fights swamp-soggers in marshes.
Other / Unknown · Waterbury, Connecticut · 1896
Seth Bassett reports seeing a huge oak tree moving due to a monstrous snake about thirty feet long that devoured a hawk.
Other / Unknown · Hephzibah, Georgia · 1891
Witness reports a strange animal seen in the early hours of the night near Hephzibah, Ga., which has attacked dogs and agitated children and Black people.
Other / Unknown · Vulcan, Missouri · 1895
Witness reports a large, dark brown animal with a bushy tail and cat-like whiskers attacking hogs and calves in Vulcan.
Other / Unknown · Daggett, California · 1892
Witness reports that prospectors E. W. Spear and Henry Brown saw a thirty-foot-long reptile-like creature with a large head and luminous eyes in the Mojave desert near Daggett.
Other / Unknown · Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz · 1893
Norwegian scientist Waag reported seeing fresh tracks of a very large animal in the Santa Cruz territory.
Other / Unknown · Castle Valley, Pennsylvania · 1899
Witness reports a little girl saw a huge anaconda in a springhouse drinking milk and eating butter.
Other / Unknown · Forest Park, Missouri · 1897
Witness reports seeing a large, red, winged dragon-like creature with six eyes and horns, along with small red humanoids, which compelled him to board it.
Other / Unknown · New London, Connecticut · 1891
Witness reports a large brown beast killing pigs and dogs in Eastern Connecticut, believed by locals to be an Indian Devil.
Other / Unknown · Landis Valley, Pennsylvania · 1891
Witness reports a strange beast with long white hair and great tusks was captured in Landis Valley after causing destruction to crops.
Other / Unknown · New York · 1899
Witness reports Mr. [name] pinned the anaconda when it returned for another feast last Saturday.
Other / Unknown · The Dalles, Oregon · 1894
Hon. E. B. Dufur reports that the animal was much larger than a cougar, had eyes shining with a deep red gleam, and left tracks nearly round measuring over four feet in diameter.
Other / Unknown · Helena, Montana · 1892
Witness reports a monster snake was seen near Donnell's mill last year and later encountered by Miss [name] L. Robinson coiled around a cow.
Other / Unknown · Manchester, New Hampshire · 1899
Gilman Brown and three companions saw the moose at dark; Brown shot at it without success.
Other / Unknown · Stanford, Kentucky · 1892
Witness reports a strange animal about four feet long with a long tail has been observed by night operators and others in the area for several years.
Other / Unknown · Texas · 1890
A cowboy reports seeing a large, bulky creature with two-story legs and a long neck that moved in a loping stride.
Other / Unknown · Strait of Malacca · 1891
A sailor in Portland reports capturing a creature that sang and lived in water but could fly, which he kept for about a year.
Other / Unknown · Hopkinsville, Kentucky · 1893
The narrator claims that while sinking in mud and quicksand after escaping the panther's den, he caught hold of a monster turtle's tail which carried him to shore.
Other / Unknown · Strait of Malacca · 1891
A reporter in Portland interviewed an old sailor who claimed to have captured and kept a singing creature that was part bird and part fish for about a year.
Other / Unknown · Argentina · 1890
Professor Onelli recounts that explorer Ramon Lista fired upon and hit a creature resembling an ancient edentate in Patagonia in 1890 without hurting it.
Other / Unknown · Lewiston, Idaho · 1895
Witnesses report a fourteen-foot snake with a crown-shaped crest has been seen in the area for several days.