Thunderbird · Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania · 1966
PA-1966ID case-1a3030d91fAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- 1966to the year
- Where
- Northern Cambria, Pennsylvaniato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that [name] and [name] were searching for Thunderbirds in the mountains of northern Pennsylvania around 1966.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Northern Cambria, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 15775, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1966
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-1a3030d91f
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.
- What happened to Frank Graves? - A Cryptozoological Mystery
Reddit · 2018-05-29
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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