Other / Unknown · South Pittsburg, Tennessee · 1934
TN-1934ID case-0d6cf012e4Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Jan 13, 1934to the day
- Where
- South Pittsburg, Tennesseeto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a mysterious animal described as fast as lightning and resembling a giant kangaroo terrorizing the Hamburg community and killing dogs.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- South Pittsburg, Marion County, East Tennessee, Tennessee, 37380, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 13, 1934
- 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 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-0d6cf012e4
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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 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), January 16, 1934
Newspaper · 1934-01-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The Bismarck tribune (Bismarck, N.D.), January 16, 1934
Newspaper · 1934-01-16
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.
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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.