Other Humanoid · Helena, Montana · 1864

MT-1864ID case-189f9916b2Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

Creature: Other Humanoid
When: Dec 22, 1864to the day
Where: Helena, Montanafallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

The Virginia Enterprise reports receiving a singular animal from Silver City that resembles a baboon or gorilla with a rabbit's head and coyote tail, believed to be brought by Indians.

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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: Dec 22, 1864
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-189f9916b2

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Source trail (1)

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Image 3 of The Montana post (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]), January 28, 1865
Newspaper · 1865-01-28
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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