Other / Unknown · Rising Sun, Maryland · 1844
MD-1844ID case-0688b86d26Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- 1844to the year
- Where
- Rising Sun, Marylandfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Matthew Arbuckle reported hearing a terrifying screech from an unknown monster while plowing, causing him to flee in terror.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- 1844
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-0688b86d26
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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.
- Image 5 of The midland journal (Rising Sun, Md.), November 1, 1907
Newspaper · 1907-11-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.