Other / Unknown · Fillmore County, Nebraska · 1923
NE-1923ID case-1d3162c2a0Added to map Nov 5, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Sep 7, 1923to the day
- Where
- Fillmore County, Nebraskato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report eerie, large luminous lights appearing near O'Neill that beckon drivers and disappear into a graveyard.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Fillmore County, Nebraska, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Sep 7, 1923
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 5, 2026
- Case id
- case-1d3162c2a0
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Source trail (1)
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 2 of The Beatrice daily express (Beatrice, Neb.), September 7, 1923
Newspaper · 1923-09-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.