Thunderbird · Tombstone, Arizona · 1900
AZ-1900ID case-014a266bc6Added to map Oct 19, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- 1900to the year
- Where
- Tombstone, Arizonato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
[name] reports two prospectors shot and carried a bird into Tombstone which was nailed to a wall.
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, 85638, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1900
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 19, 2026
- Case id
- case-014a266bc6
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.
- The lost thunderbird photo 1: A wild west tall story, folktales and a lumberjack, and a collection of large dead birds.
Reddit · 2022-06-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - A Possible Source for the Thunderbird Photo?
Reddit · 2024-04-13
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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