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Other Aquatic · Cahokia, Illinois · 1877

IL-1877ID case-0f9ddcd941Added to map Oct 9, 2026
Creature
Other Aquatic
When
Oct 5, 1877to the day
Where
Cahokia, Illinoisto town level
Reports
3 documents1 independent

The account

Witness reports that Mr. [name]'s son Johnny observed a large, winged, reptilian creature with a long neck and bill fighting a bull in a pasture before flying away towards the Mississippi River.

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Details

Creature
Other Aquatic
Where
Cahokia, Saint Clair County, Illinois, 62206, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words
When
Oct 5, 1877
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 9, 2026
Case id
case-0f9ddcd941

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 3 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.

  1. Image 3 of Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.), October 9, 1877
    Newspaper · 1877-10-09
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 1 of The news and herald (Winnsboro, S.C.), October 20, 1877
    Newspaper · 1877-10-20

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