Other Flying · Crawfordsville, Indiana · 1891
IN-1891ID case-08bb797d65Added to map Oct 31, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Sep 1891to the month
- Where
- Crawfordsville, Indianato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that the people of Crawfordsville were much exercised over a winged monster which had been hovering over the town for several nights.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, 47933, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 1891
- 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 31, 2026
- Case id
- case-08bb797d65
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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.
- Image 4 of Evening journal (Wilmington, Del.), September 8, 1891
Newspaper · 1891-09-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of The Connecticut home (Willimantic, Conn.), September 12, 1891
Newspaper · 1891-09-12
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.