Other Flying · Santiago, Región Metropolitana de Santiago · 1868
CHI-1868ID case-134c9742c3Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Mar 27, 1868to the day
- Where
- Santiago, Región Metropolitana de Santiagoto town level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses at Garin Mine report seeing a gigantic bird with brown plumage, grasshopper-like head, and serpent body flying rapidly from northeast to southwest.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Santiago, Provincia de Santiago, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, 8320000, Chile
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 27, 1868
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-134c9742c3
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Source trail (4)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 Mineral Point weekly tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.), June 17, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-06-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Public ledger (Memphis, Tenn.), June 29, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-06-29 - The Flying Serpent Who Battled a Train and Other American Dragons
Reddit · 2024-11-14
Show 1 more source
- The Flying Serpent Who Battled a Train (and Other American Dragons)
Reddit · 2024-11-14
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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