Other Humanoid · Helena, Montana · 1892
MT-1892ID case-11bf640f4eFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Feb 1892to the month
- Where
- Helena, Montanafallback location
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report that a wild boy was chased by Billy Raglan into a swamp pit where he disappeared, leaving only a skeleton.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, 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
- Feb 1892
- 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-11bf640f4e
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Source trail (1)
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.
- Image 7 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), February 14, 1892, (Morning)
Newspaper · 1892-02-14
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)
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