Other Flying · Chief Mountain, Montana · 1926
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A Thunder Bird with a moose head and black wings that brought rain and buffalo is a bizarre hybrid.
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Feb 1926to the month
- Where
- Chief Mountain, Montanato approximate level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
Chief Three Sons recounts that sixteen warriors, including Iron Horse, encountered a Thunder Bird with a moose head and black wings on Chief Mountain, which brought rain and buffalo.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Chief Mountain, Glacier County, Montana, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 1926
- 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 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-162cd28a72
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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 10 of The Bozeman courier (Bozeman, Mont.), February 26, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-02-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 6 of The Ronan pioneer (Ronan, Mont.), February 26, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-02-26 - Image 5 of The Herald-news (Wolf Point, Mont.), November 26, 1942
Newspaper · 1942-11-26
Show 1 more source
- Image 3 of Browning chief (Browning, Mont.), November 27, 1942
Newspaper · 1942-11-27
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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