Added to map
Counted back from the last data update, not from today.
Reading the map
- Placed from the report's own words
- Fallback place (a newspaper's printing town, a database county) — not necessarily where it was seen. Hidden until you untick Hide fallback locations
- No dependable place: not drawn at all, listed under Cases with no resolvable place below
- Backed by 2+ independent sources
- New: added to the map in the 7 days up to the last data update
- 12 A cluster: tap to zoom in
A marker is a case: retellings, reprints and cross-posts of one encounter folded together. "Independent" counts distinct source chains — copies count once, never as confirmations. Locations are never more precise than the source. Why some places are estimates
Cases with no resolvable place (0)
These accounts name no place we can look up, so they can't be drawn. They are still cases, with their sources.
About the data
| source | docs | rpts | placed (own words) | ≤county | dated | 1st-hand |
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% of reports. Video reports carry a timestamp link.
Place names and positions: © OpenStreetMap contributors, looked up with Nominatim (ODbL). Country and state outlines: Natural Earth (public domain). Map library: Leaflet. Newspaper pages: Library of Congress, Chronicling America (public domain). Quotes are short and link back to each source. Private witnesses' names are shown as [name], and a home is shown only as "near the witness's home" at town level.