After days of heavy rain, a giant white skeleton about ten meters long, with two horns on its head and twenty-nine vertebrae, was found in the reed marshes of Yingkou. Locals claimed to have seen a living "dragon" fall twice before. The Shengjing Times photographed and reported it; the bones were later taken away by Japanese personnel and lost.
Account
After days of heavy rain, a giant white skeleton about ten meters long — with two horns on its head and twenty-nine vertebrae — was found in the reed marshes north of the Liao River at Yingkou. Locals claimed to have seen a living "dragon" fall twice before: once at Tianzhuangtai, where villagers built a shelter to shade and water it, and later, when it disappeared. The Shengjing Times photographed and reported the find; the bones were later taken away by Japanese personnel and lost.
Contested
⚠️ Partial debunk: The 1934 Shengjing Times reports and the 2004 CCTV investigation both document the case. Experts explained it as the skeleton of a stranded minke whale (with horns being misidentified fish bones), but multiple eyewitnesses insisted they saw a living creature with scales and horns, and the whale spine should have 57 vertebrae, not 29. No consensus.
Sources
- Shengjing Times (1934), continuous coverage
- CCTV "Approaching Science," Yingkou Dragon feature (2004)