Thunderbird · 1882
XX-1882ID case-0324efa4a9Added to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- Mar 1882to the month
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report winged crocodile-like monsters encountered by lumberjacks in Hurleton California and Missouri.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Thunderbird reports with no place (12) - When
- Mar 1882
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-0324efa4a9
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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.
- 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.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.